Manic Street Preachers Remix album (w/ Underworld Mix)

[BrotherLovesDub]

Each track from Journal For Plague Lovers has been remixed and will be released as a digital EP on June 15th. The band hand-picked an impressive selection of remixers:

"It's been a pretty overwhelming response to be honest. We chose people for each track hoping they would bring us back something unique, that they'd find something we maybe hadn't in the track. Without fail, they've done that. Heartfelt thanks from us to everyone involved". - Nicky

The EP boasts the following artists and track remixes:

Andrew Weatherall - Peeled Apples
Saint Etienne - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
British Sea Power - Me And Stephen Hawking
Patrick Wolf - This Joke Sport Severed
Optimo (Espacio) - Journal For Plague Lovers
The Pariahs - She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
Adem - Facing Page Top Left
New Young Pony Club - Marlon JD
The Horrors - Doors Closing Slowly
Errors - All Is Vanity
Four Tet - Pretension/Repulsion
Fuck Buttons - Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Underworld - William's Last Words
Jonathan Krisp - Bag Lady
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information please...

[big screen satellite]

lets hope this is awesomeness and sparks some new UW remixes of other artists again....

i'd like to see them back in remix groove....

[Dirty0900]

Here's the original:

[stimpee]

Thats crap. They were very popular when he went missing, and The Holy Bible is their best album. Not sure if this new album is tribute or barrel scraping though.

[Eikman]

"William's Last Words" is one of the weakest tracks on an, otherwise rather good, album. i'd even go as far and say it is the best thing they've done since "everything must go"

[stimpee]

BLD:nice of you to delete your responses so that my response looks weird. The point i wanted to make is that they were already popular for years at least in the UK (though i know that The Holy Bible didnt get a release in the US finitially). They were top 20/30 for the first 3 albums and already had one top 10 single. Hard to say that his suicide made them more popular. The music has to stand up for itself also.

I'll be interested in hearing what UW have done with this though.

[industri_studios]

Manics got BIGGER post-Richie, IMHO... I mean "This Is My Truth..." was HUGE... got them world tours and such, and that had nothing to do with the disappearance.

That being said, I do feel the band have been a series of diminishing returns for a while... never releasing outright BAD material, just losing their own plot. Haven't heard Journal yet, but I have the same fears as many - that it's a little of polishing the sheen off the memory of a lost friend.

Alas - I'll reserve judgement until I hear it (novel in the Internet age, I know LOL!)

[mmm skyscraper]

If you tolerate this
Your children will be next

[DwarfeD]

Too bad the EP that is released today only contains six remixes and comes without the UW-remix: http://www.manicstreetpreachers.com/...mix_ep_out_now
I hope it will come available in the near future...

[TheBang]

It sounded like Rick was still working on it as of last week. Wonder what it's going to be released on and when.