MANIC STREET PREACHERS launch celebratory new single Decline & Fall

30 August 2024

Welsh rockers the MANIC STREET PREACHERS have released a new single, the typically euphoric Decline & Fall.

It's the first track to emerge from the band's as-yet-untitled fifteenth album, the follow-up to 2021's The Ultra Vivid Lament.

According to a statement accompanying the release, Decline & Fall is inspired by THE SKIDS, Gran Turismo-era THE CARDIGANS and THE WAR ON DRUGS (the band, not the actual was on drugs). The statement concludes by insisting that Decline & Fall is "fully energised and utterly euphoric, a joyous anthem for an era of self-hatred."

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