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Critical Thinking: 2CD Lounge Psychédélique The alternative and conscious rapManic Street Preachers have released details of their fifteenth studio album and UK tour to accompany it. Critical Thinking is released on Columbia on 31st January 2025, and a new single featuring for the first time, lead vocals from bassist lyricist Nicky Wire Hiding In Plain Sight is available now (25th October). Initially inspired by a line from the poet Anne Sexton ("I am a collection of dismantled almosts"), Hiding in Plain Sight contrasts a