Everything Must Go (Manic Street Preachers album) band announced European dates for the tour in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Manic Street Preachers Technical Additional musicians Everything Must Go (Manic Street Preachers album) Everything Must Go is the fourth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 20 May 1996, through Epic Records, and was the first record released by the band following the disappearance of lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards. Released at the height of Britpop in the mid-1990s, the album was a commercial and critical success, it reached its peak in the UK on
Everything Must Go (Manic Street Preachers album) a hummable ditty." "Vox" magazine's Mark Sutherland saw "Everything Must Go" as the group's "most approachable" album, describing it as a "record so superb it might just make intelligence fashionable again", and surmising that the album "proves that, professionally, at least, the Manic Street Preachers don't miss Richey." "Rolling Stone" critic David Fricke called "Everything Must Go" the "most underrated album of the year", describing it as "a record of painstaking melodic craft and thundering execution, a proclamation of physical and emotional cleansing – up to a point." In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote: "Above all,