On November 1, 2004, “Sony Music UK” label released “Lifeblood”, the seventh Manic Street Preachers studio album. It was recorded August 2003 – August 2004, at “Stir Studios” in Cardiff, Wales, “Looking Glass Studios” in New York, “Grouse Lodge” in Westmeath, Ireland, and was produced by Tony Visconti, Tom Elmhirst and Greg Haver.

Personnel:

1. James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar
2. Sean Moore – drums, drum programming
3. Nicky Wire – bass guitar
4. Nick Nasmyth – keyboards
5. Jeremy Shaw – keyboards
6. Greg Haver – percussion
7. Mario J. McNulty – engineer assistance
8. Stefano Sofia – engineer assistance
9. Steve Davis – engineer assistance
10. Loz Williams – engineer assistance
11. Tom Elmhirst – mixing
12. Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
13. Farrow Design – art direction, artwork, design
14. John Ross – sleeve photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Nicky Wire except where noted, all music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore.

1. 1985
2. The Love of Richard Nixon
3. Empty Souls
4. A Song for Departure
5. I Live to Fall Asleep
6. To Repel Ghosts
7. Emily
8. Glasnost
9. Always/Never
10. Solitude Sometimes Is
11. Fragments – additional lyrics by Patrick Jones
12. Cardiff Afterlife