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Jul 8, 2014The album was recorded in Berlin and the dark pulse of that Krautrock influence gives the songs a steely sleekness of purpose (and real cohesion), while the band layer a vigorous variety of sounds and tempos on top to keep things interesting.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014Futurology isn't just the best album the Manic Street Preachers have made this century, it's arguably the best album of the year. [Aug 2014, p. 206]
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Jul 21, 2014They're more infatuated with Neu! and Kraftwerk or Public Image Ltd, but these jagged, difficult sounds are filtered through the trio's now instinctual arena-filling gestures and that tension is what gives Futurology a resonant richness.
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Jul 21, 2014There’s plenty to be pleased about here.
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Aug 15, 2014Futurology can just about stand toe-to-toe with any of their past albums. Even if it doesn’t surpass any of their “classics” (pick one), it’s comes close enough that you won’t really care.
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Kerrang!Jul 22, 2014The Maniacs prove persuasive enough to bring you round to their way of thinking. [12 Jul 2014, p.54]
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Jul 14, 2014The Manics’ band identity proves robust enough to withstand the tweaking.
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Jul 3, 2014Futurology never feels like a pastiche, and sounds unmistakably like the Manic Street Preachers while sounding unlike any other album they've made.
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Jul 3, 2014Taking so many chances means there are inevitable hiccups, but they scarcely matter.
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MojoJul 2, 2014Ultimately, Futurology is brave and unexpected, and though some of it galls, much is magnificent. [Aug 2014, p.87]
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Q MagazineJul 1, 2014As long as they continue to ask themselves difficult questions, and answer them with records as full of fire and vitality as Futurology, failure is not an option. [Jul 2014, p.113]
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Jul 1, 2014Futurology is the Manics doing what they do best, with added Krautrock, Georgia Ruth and Green Gartside.
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Jul 1, 2014Every track is quite full of life and holds no lack of energy that characterizes good, classic British rock ‘n’ roll.
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Aug 21, 2014With their twelfth album and one of their best in years, Manic Street Preachers display a stylistic freedom that one might call reinvention if it didn't still sound just like the Manics.
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UncutJul 7, 2014For the most part, though, this is the Manics as you'd want them to be--thrilling, bombastic and sometimes ridiculous, but still raging. [Aug 2014, p.75]
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Jul 7, 2014Futurology just happens to be their most daring folly yet.
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Jul 1, 2014The bloat of Tigers and Postcards is gone without a trace; in its place is the sound of a band that’s slain the AOR dragon and finally got back to making the music they feel like making.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 29
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Mixed: 2 out of 29
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Negative: 2 out of 29
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