Manic Street Preachers return with their most pressing album in years. This is a plate of colliding opposites--a plate of dialectics trying to find a way of solution. While the music is tangy and elegiac edifying, most of the lyrics are about the cold analysis of the self, except for the three texts of James (Dean Bradfield), who seeks answers in people, their memories, their language, and their beliefs and hopefully finds them too. ...