Manic Street Preachers‘ bassist Nicky Wire has shared a new solo track ‘Contact Sheets’. Check it out under.
The bassist, lyricist and polaroid artist of the Welsh rock veterans launched his solo debut ‘I Killed The Zeitgeist’, and followers have been anticipating information of the “modern, electronic, soothsaying” follow-up document for some years now.
“It’s done,” Wire advised NME in 2021. “Whatever, I might bury it in a fucking pond somewhere, I might burn it, I might do it mail order, I might do it on Bandcamp. It’s very fucking fragile. It’s got some very off-kilter modern jazz and some C-86 indie vibes to it.”
He continued: There’s some ‘Bitches Brew’-era Miles Davis in there, some obscure trumpet-led, and a few songs that simply sound like The Shop Assistants. It options Gav [Fitzjohn] on the trumpet. Sean [Moore, drums and trumpet] refuses to play. He says his lip has gone.”
Now, Wire has shared the primary taster of recent materials on Bandcamp – with ‘Contact Sheets’ delivering on his promise of hazy C-86-inspred sounds, with lyrics sometimes nostalgic and elegiac.
Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield beforehand revealed that Wire had been recording his new LP whereas the singer was at work on his personal earlier solo album, ‘Even In Exile‘.
“I’d have our studio one day, he’d have it the next, he asked me to play a guitar solo on one of his tracks, and yeah – his stuff is sounding great,” Bradfield advised NME. “There was one song on there that was fucking amazing but hard to describe. It was very modern, very electronic, and very soothsaying and prophetic.”
This got here after Wire teased to NME that he’d be releasing his personal materials by way of fan request solely. “All I’ve got to do is get 500 CDs made, print off a lot of polaroids and hand-make them all,” he mentioned.
The Manics have not too long ago been posting pictures to social media of the band at work on the follow-up to 2021’s acclaimed ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament‘.
Meanwhile, the band will probably be embarking on a handful of UK dates this summer time. Check them out under and see tickets and particulars right here.
JUNE
15 – Bath, Forum
18 – Isle Of Wight Festival
21-25 – Glastonbury Festival