Peeled Apples Peeled Apples "Peeled Apples" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It is the opening track of the band's ninth studio album, "Journal for Plague Lovers". Produced by Steve Albini, the song, along with the other tracks of the album, features posthumous lyrics by Richey Edwards, who disappeared on 1 February 1995, and was declared legally dead in 2008. The song debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 program on 25 March 2009. The lyrics of the song is taken from the notebooks and the artwork which Richey Edwards left to the band members just before
Lifeblood (album) forever as one of the best commercial albums of the bands career." John Garrett from PopMatters wrote "Richey may be long dead, but there's still warm blood coursing through the Manics' veins. They are for real—although maybe not in the way history had intended." A negative review came from "Q", calling the album "miserable and insipid". Lifeblood (album) Lifeblood is the seventh studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. Recorded in 2003, it was released on 1 November 2004 by record label Sony Music UK. The album was met with generally positive reviews from critics, yielding two