Journal for Plague Lovers Journal for Plague Lovers Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released in May 2009 by record label Columbia. Recorded between October 2008 and February 2009 and produced by Steve Albini and Dave Eringa, it features exclusively posthumous-published lyrics by Richey Edwards, who disappeared on 1 February 1995 and was presumed deceased in 2008. It is the only Manic Street Preachers album in which the lyrics for every song were written solely by Edwards. The album received a very positive critical reception and debuted at number 3 in the UK
Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album) "a disco parody," respectively. The tracks "My Guernica", "His Last Painting" and "The Convalescent" were also described as "dark, marching and charging post-punk anthems." It is the longest album released by the Manic Street Preachers, as it is slightly longer than their debut "Generation Terrorists". On 2014, Sean Moore stated in an interview to a Spanish reporter that the songs included in Know Your Enemy were originally meant for two different albums with different sound and concept. Songs ended up all together in one album as the record label was not kind to put out two albums at the same