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Album reviews: Manics’ Nicky Wire steps away from band’s usual style with eclectic solo effort
The second solo album by the Manic Street Preachers’ founding member has been digitally released on Bandcamp, the album distribution online platform
Nicky Wire, Intimism (Bandcamp)
While Welsh band Manic Street Preachers continue to work on their follow-up to 2021’s career highlight The Ultra Vivid Lament, founding member Nicky Wire turns down the dial on his second solo album. Despite the Manics’ success, Wire’s 2006 debut I Killed the Zeitgeist was an abject commercial failure (it didn’t even crack the UK Top 100 charts). So he has wisely changed gears by releasing this follow-up on Bandcamp, the ...
