The 2009 album ‘Journal for Plague Lovers’ was released by which band?
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
Journal for Plague Lovers commended the album for its sense of hope: ""Journal for Plague Lovers" winds up being "The Holy Bible" in reverse: every moment of despair is a reason to keep on living instead of an excuse to pack it all in." "Journal for Plague Lovers" was placed at number 10 on Metacritic's list of the fifty best-reviewed albums of 2009, and was placed on numerous critics' ranking lists for the year, particularly from British music magazines: Tracks from "Journal for Plague Lovers" have been remixed by a number of artists, and the "Journal for Plague Lovers Remixes" EP was released on