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- Record Label: Columbia
- Release Date: Sep 15, 2009
- Summary: The latest album for the Welsh rock band was produced by Steve Albini and features lyrics from Richey James Edwards, who went missing in 1995.
- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 1 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Q MagazineBy breathing life into Richey Edwards's own last words, his friends have crafted not a memorial but a celebration. [Jun 2009, p.120]
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Overall, Journal For Plague Lovers is a strident comeback that would have been a worthy direct successor to "The Holy Bible" had circumstances been different.
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With Journal for Plague Lovers, it feels like Manic Street Preachers have finally closed the door on a painful chapter in their career and, rather fittingly, they’ve done it with some aplomb.
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This is something unique, often flawed and often flooring, and as fine and fitting a memorial for its lyricist as could be imagined.
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Journal For Plague Lovers is an outstanding album in its own right and is not "The Holy Bible." But then again, what is?
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FilterTo date, this is as close to their masterpiece, The Holy Bible, as they've ever come. [Fall 2009, p.92]
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Disjointed, imperfect, tender and raw, at the final reckoning it sits as a fitting epitaph.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Mar 8, 2023
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EmiliJun 6, 2009Fantastic album, back to the good old days. Forget about their recent stuff.
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JimSMay 20, 2009
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May 20, 2011
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JuliaAMay 22, 2009
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Oct 23, 2014
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MarkA.Sep 22, 2009Backspacer is a winner. Great cd by one of the greatest bands of alltime.
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