Experiments in Living --

* a defeat for a generation lost in a world with no taste

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Nicky Wire: There’s Always a Reason

Freedom in failure. Acceptance. C86 and introversion. “Never stop believing” Youth and idealism. Messy Guitars. Messy vocals. Glamour. Repeat. Fade.

(We are) Performance: Rome

The West as the new Rome. Life reduced to consumption. Detournment. Falling out of love: “ I'm whispering your name / it will never sound the same as before. ” The idea of ‘choice’ and life lived through representations. Wanting to start over again: “ Don’t leave me alone ”

Manic Street Preachers: Forever Delayed

Dealing with the limits of mortality. Alienation. Religion and the idea of a promised land. The emptiness of faith. Hope is ‘ forever delayed. ’

Robots in Disguise: Postcards from the Future

Performance and spectacle. New Wave Expressionism. Diy Aesthetic. Riot Grrrl. Dada. Poetic lyrics and chunky electronic beats. Regression and romance.

Manic Street Preachers: Motorcycle Emptiness

Paris 1968. Guns and Roses Guitars. Camus and Rumblefish. Le culture est la inversion de la vie. “ I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn’t feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept ”

Hope of the States: This is a Question

Cerebral post rock. The will to live and the refusal of constraints as vector points of departure.

Sheraz Qureshi