🎶 Listening to Critical Thinking by Manic Street Preachers.

This is the band’s 15th album over the astonishing period of 33 years. They’re still going strong, and still very political. Much of it comes across as a thoughtful critique of the experience of modern life, and a mix of a call to resist it, albeit with a certain amount of resignation that it is what it is.

Perhaps they’re also getting a bit existentially old and tired. But their music isn’t. I hope they keep on going, and if it in any way inspires a new generation to resist the less desirable aspects of modern life, so much the better.