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.

1. (It’s Not War) Just the End of Love
2. Postcards from a Young Man
3. Some Kind of Nothingness – Wire
4. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)
5. Hazelton Avenue
6. Auto-Intoxication
7. Golden Platitudes
8. I Think I Found It – James Dean Bradfield
9. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
10. All We Make Is Entertainment
11. The Future Has Been Here 4Ever
12. Don’t be Evil