Distant Colours
"Distant Colours" | ||||
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Single by Manic Street Preachers | ||||
from the album Resistance Is Futile | ||||
Released | 16 February 2018 | |||
Recorded | November 2017 | |||
Length | 3:30 | |||
Label | Sony | |||
Songwriter(s) | Nicky Wire, James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore | |||
Producer(s) | Dave Eringa | |||
Manic Street Preachers singles chronology | ||||
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"Distant Colours" is the second single taken from the Manic Street Preachers' thirteenth album Resistance Is Futile (2018).[1] It was released on 16 February 2018.[2]
Background
The lyrics were written by vocalist James Dean Bradfield, rather than Nicky Wire, and inspired by disenchantment and Nye Bevan's old Labour. James said that "Musically, the verse is downcast and melancholic and the chorus is an explosion of disillusionment and tears." The video itself was by their long-standing visual collaborator Kieran Evans and stars actor Sarah Sayuri.[3]
About the political aspect of the song Wire added that "I can't direct my anger at a single thing, politics is so overlapping and everything is so complicated that I think it's really trite to direct it at specific targets" (...) "That's the malaise we find ourselves in. It's the classic case of Tony Benn being the ultimate icon of socialism, and he never wanted to be in the European Union! Everyone keeps using him as a totem on the left, but are desperate to stay in the EU. People don't know their history, they toss things out there."[4]
Talking further about the song Bradfield said that "It was just a song that came together in an amalgam of confusion and dejection at the general election and the American Presidential election," he tells Clash. "I was just trying to kind of trying to figure out how you could define yourself by knowing what your enemy was like you did when you were 16 years old. Which, for me, was 1986, '85, '84. All those years. And I just decided that you couldn't any more because, obviously, the left has fractured, the centre left has fractured, the centre ground was unoccupied..."[5]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Distant Colours" | 3:30 |
Personnel
Manic Street Preachers
- James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, guitar
- Nicky Wire – vocals, bass guitar
- Sean Moore – drums
Charts
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Scotland (OCC)[6] | 93 |
References
- ^ "Manic Street Preachers share new 'Distant Colours' single".
- ^ "Distant Colours by Manic Street Preachers". iTunes Store (GB).
- ^ "LISTEN: New Manic Street Preachers".
- ^ "Melancholy Optimism: Manic Street Preachers Interviewed".
- ^ "Manic Street Preachers Talk New Single 'Distant Colours'". Clash.
- ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
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