The Ultra Vivid Lament: Deluxe CD Broen E1: Afro Blue featuring Erykah

E1: Afro Blue featuring Erykah Badu (9th Wonder’s Blue Light Basement Remix featuring Phonte)

' ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ and ‘Time’ marked a significant musical progression from its predecessor

echoey drums and driving bass set behind Kristin Hersh’s well-thumbed notebook of storylines

“My grandmother was sick so we moved back to my moms hometown

said hi - my lady-friend bought a hat - and then we split

The Ultra Vivid Lament: Deluxe CD Broen E1: Afro Blue featuring ErykahThe Ultra Vivid Lament is the 14th studio album from Manic Street Preachers. It is both reflection and reaction a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky. Musically The Ultra Vivid Lament is inspired by a formative years record box (ABBA, post Eno Roxy, the Bunnymen, Fables era REM, Lodger) though the end