The Manics’ seventh studio album is apolitical and reflective for a very good reason, as the horrors of the world at the time of its arrival were so turbulent to make an articulate comment on.
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Despite its dour worldview, antagonistic posture, and, at the time of its release in the summer of 1994, quite poor sales, ‘The Holy Bible’ has been recast as a triumph of extreme art.
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A strange, though welcome, anomaly of an album, ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ sits more as an isolated artistic act in the band’s catalog than a proper record.
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Despite the sour tone and bleak outlook of most of these songs, the record still remains the band’s best selling effort and earned them another round of awards and accolades.
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If there was ever a record that explained our own current political and cultural mishaps then ‘Know Your Enemy’ might just be it.
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