Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

The Ultra Vivid Lament is the fourteenth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released in September 2021 via Columbia Records.

Manic Street Preachers return with their 14th studio album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’

‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is both reflection and reaction; a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky.

A departure from their last release (2018’s ‘Resistance is Futile’), ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is the first Manic Street Preachers album initially conceived on piano rather than guitar.

It was recorded over winter 2020/21 in Wales at Rockfield in Monmouth and the bands’ Door to the River studio in Newport with longtime collaborator Dave Eringa (The Who), before being mixed by David Wrench (Blossoms, Frank Ocean, Arlo Parks).

The album features two guest vocalists: Julia Cumming (Sunflower Bean) on ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ and Mark Lanegan on ‘Blank Diary Entry’.

This album is on black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Europe via Columbia Records.