Manic Street Preachers have released their new single ‘People Ruin Paintings’

Manic Street Preachers have shared new single ‘People Ruin Paintings’, the third track to arrive from their upcoming fifteenth album ‘Critical Thinking’.

The Welsh band describe the track as “musically the three of us playing telepathically, referencing thirty plus years of playing together instinctively.”

‘Critical Thinking’ follows the previously released singles ‘Decline & Fall’ and Nicky Wire-fronted ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’. The album is set for release on 31st January via Columbia Records.

The band have recently returned from their first shows of 2025 in Japan, with a series of festival appearances planned for the summer.

The dates in full read:

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11 Barrowland, Glasgow, UK
12 Barrowland, Glasgow, UK
18 O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK
19 O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK
25 The Civic at the Halls, Wolverhampton, UK
26 Bristol Beacon, Bristol, UK

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2 O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
3 O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
9 Arena, Swansea, UK
10 Arena, Swansea, UK