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Their terrorist generation have longsince given up hope on Manic Street Preachers growing old disgracefully, but at least they’re growing old imaginatively. Recognising MOR arena rock as a (lucrative) creative dead end, since 2007’s glam-punk Send Away The Tigers they’ve been approaching each new album as a self-imposed stylistic challenge. The Holy Bible successfully completes therapy? 2009’s Journal For Plague Lovers. Pomp-metal Motown? 2010’s Postcards From A Young Man. Cinematic horizon-gazing? 2013’s Rewind The Film. Arena (kraut) rock? The following year’s Futurology.