MANIC STREET PREACHERS have announced their return to active duty with details of a new album and a massive UK tour, which includes a gig at Venue Cymru, Llandudno.
‘Resistance Is Futile’, the band’s 13th studio album, is due for release on April 6, 2018 on Columbia/Sony (the album is the band’s 13th consecutive release for the label).
Following the twin musical departures of 2013’s largely acoustic ‘Rewind the Film’ and the glacial electronics of 2014’s ‘Futurology’, ‘Resistance Is Futile’ heralds a return to a classic Manics sound described by the band as “widescreen melancholia”.
The songs on the album are the first recorded in the band’s new Door to the River studio (near Newport).
Of their first new recordings in four years, the band said: “The main themes of ‘Resistance is Futile’ are memory and loss; forgotten history; confused reality and art as a hiding place and inspiration. It’s obsessively melodic – in many ways referencing both the naive energy of ‘Generation Terrorists’ and the orchestral sweep of ‘Everything Must Go’. After delay and difficulties getting started, the record has come together really quickly over the last few months through a surge of creativity and some old school hard work.”
To coincide with the release of ‘Resistance Is Futile’, the band have announced their biggest series of UK live shows in over a decade and includes a return to North Wales with a date at Venue Cymru. Support on all dates comes from very special guests The Coral.
23 April NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena
25 April GLASGOW, The SSE Hydro Arena
27 April BIRMINGHAM, Arena
28 April MANCHESTER, Arena
1 May LLANDUDNO, Venue Cymru Arena
2 May LEEDS, First Direct Arena
4 May LONDON, The SSE Arena Wembley
5 May CARDIFF, Motorpoint Arena
Tickets go on sale 9.30am on Friday, November 24, 2017 via www.ticketmaster.co.uk and www.gigsandtours.com
