On September 20, 2010, “Columbia” label released “Postcards from a Young Man”, the tenth Manic Street Preachers studio album. It was recorded October 2009 – June 2010, at “Faster Studio” in Cardiff, Wales, and was produced by James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore, Dave Eringa and Loz Williams.
Personnel:
- James Dean Bradfield– lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, mandola
- Nicky Wire– lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar
- Ian McCulloch– co-lead vocals
- John Cale– keyboards, noise
- Duff McKagan– bass guitar
- Sean Moore– drums, percussion, trumpet
- Loz Williams – piano, Hammond organ, mellotron
- Nick Naysmith – piano, Hammond organ
- Andy Walters – strings, string arrangements
- Joanna Walters, Carly Worsford, Bernard Kane, Simon Howes, Nathan Stone, Richard Phillips, Claudine Liddington – strings
- Catrin Wyn Southall – vocal arrangements, backing vocals
- Melissa Henry, Osian Rowlands, Gareth Treseder, Fflur Rowlands, Roland George, Aled Powys Williams – backing vocals
- Loz Williams – engineer
- Dave Eringa– engineer, mixing
- Chris Lord-Alge, Tom Elmhirst– mixing
- Howie Weinberg– mastering
Track listing:
All lyrics by Nicky Wire; all music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore, except where noted.
- (It’s Not War) Just the End of Love
- Postcards from a Young Man
- Some Kind of Nothingness – Wire
- The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)
- Hazelton Avenue
- Auto-Intoxication
- Golden Platitudes
- I Think I Found It – James Dean Bradfield
- A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
- All We Make Is Entertainment
- The Future Has Been Here 4Ever
- Don’t be Evil