Product Overview
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers / Columbia Audio CD 2009 / 88697520582
UPC 886975205820
Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released in May 2009 by record label Columbia. Recorded between October 2008 and February 2009 and produced by Steve Albini and Dave Eringa, it features exclusively posthumously published lyrics by Richey Edwards, who disappeared on 1 February 1995 and was presumed deceased in 2008. It is the only Manic Street Preachers album in which the lyrics for every song were written solely by Edwards.[1]
The album received a very positive critical reception and debuted at number 3 in the UK Albums Chart.
- Label: Columbia – 88697520582
- Format: CD, Album
- Country: Europe
- Released: 18 May 2009
- Genre: Rock
- Style: Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Indie Rock
Tracklist:
| 1 | Peeled Apples | 3:32 |
| 2 | Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Producer [Additional] – Dave Eringa |
2:24 |
| 3 | Me And Stephen Hawking | 2:46 |
| 4 | The Joke Sport Severed
Producer – Dave Eringa |
3:03 |
| 5 | Journal For Plague Lovers
Producer – Dave Eringa |
3:45 |
| 6 | She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach | 2:17 |
| 7 | Facing Page: Top Left | 2:40 |
| 8 | Marlon J.D.
Producer – Dave Eringa |
2:50 |
| 9 | Doors Closing Slowly | 2:51 |
| 10 | All Is Vanity | 3:34 |
| 11 | Pretension/Repulsion | 2:04 |
| 12 | Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Producer [Additional] – Dave Eringa, Recorded By – Loz Williams |
3:24 |
| 13 |
William's Last Words
Lead Vocals – Nicky Wire, Mixed By – Steve Albini |
4:16 |
- Arranged By [Strings], Strings – Andy Walters
- Artwork – Jenny Saville
- Bass, Vocals, Sleeve, Design, Music By – Nicky Wire
- Drums, Percussion, Music By – Sean Moore
- Engineer – Greg Norman
- Engineer [Assistant] – Ben Cunningham (3)
- Harp – Katherine Thomas (2)
- Lyrics By – Richard Edwards
- Mixed By – Dave Eringa (tracks: 1 to 12)
- Photography By – Mitch Ikeda
- Recorded By – Steve Albini (tracks: 1 to 3, 6, 7, 9 to 11, 13)
- Recorded By [Additional] – Loz Williams (tracks: 1, 5, 6, 11, 13), Steve Davis (3) (tracks: 8)
- Sleeve, Design – Steve Stacey
- Strings – Bernard Kane, Joanna Parkhurst, Nathan Stone
- Vocals, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Music By – James Dean Bradfield
- Manic Street Preachers
- James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar
- Sean Moore – drums, percussion
- Nicky Wire – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "William's Last Words", piano on "Virginia State Epileptic Colony"
- Additional personnel
- Andy Walters – string arrangement, strings
- Katherine Thomas – harp
- Joanna Parkhurst – strings
- Bernard Kane – strings
- Nathan Stone – strings
- Technical
- Steve Albini – recording (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 9–11 and 13), mixing ("William's Last Words")
- Dave Eringa – mixing (all tracks except "William's Last Words"), recording (tracks 4, 5 and 8), production (tracks 2, 4, 5, 8 and 12)
- Loz Williams – recording (tracks 1, 5, 6 and 11–13), recording and engineering of original demos
- Steve Davis – recording ("Marlon J.D.")
- Greg Norman – engineering
- Ben Cunningham – engineering assistance
- Jenny Saville – front cover artwork
- Steve Stacey – sleeve design
- Mitch Ikeda – sleeve photography
