A successful shot

Do you believe in foresight and headlines of tabloids? If so, then specifically for you (and in order for you to read to the second paragraph) we will begin in the spirit of conspiracy theories: months before the disaster, the Welsh Rock Group Manic Street Preachers predicted the crash of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk. Almost like Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

At first it seems that there are no such coincidences. A couple of weeks ago, the 12th album of Levakov-intellectuals, who are in Britain in the status of rock stars, is called "futurology." It has an instrumental play “Dreaming a City” dedicated to Donetsk (which was founded by the Wales capitalist Hugues and was once called Yuzovka), the evil song “Misguided Missile” -that is, literally “The incorrectly directed missile”, an angry satire “go to the war”, where the automatic lines are connected and connected. Quotes from Tchaikovsky (however, from Edward Grieg), and the dynamic “The Next Jet to Leave Moscow ” , which is a suitable soundtrack for everyone who, under the impression of the painful information picture, is going to blame Russia. The impression is that the Manic Street Preachers wrote their new album on the headlines of today's newspapers and the topics of hot news releases delivered by the time machine. For them, this is an unimportant approach-the Welsh Trio, who declared itself in the early 1990s a daring political clock, was and remains a rare group, which managed to write hits on the plots of smart edges and with a preface from Noam Khomsky. Even on his previous plate, quiet, lyrical and dedicated to the native Wales “REWIND The FILM” , they still managed to push the track “30 year War ” , where they took all their hatred of Margaret Thatcher. But such an accurate hit on the mass media is amazing.

But this is still an accident, not a prophecy. A successful shot. In fact, the “Futurology” by Manic Street Preachers is not about today and tomorrow, this is about yesterday yesterday. And the song “Misguided Missile” is not a leak of incriminating evidence, but a session of ruthless self -disclosure, in which the aphorism “to understand your country, you must understand yourself”. The album is filled with sincere admiration and love for the art and culture of Europe of the 20th century-from Russian avant-garde and constructivism (the attention of Russophiles-on the record there are songs “Black Square”, “Mayakovsky” and four letters “I” on the cover) to New Wewa, which arose in Britain after the local underground opened the German Kraut-Coro and KraftWerk . Following the traditions of the British musicians, laid down in the 1970s, David Bowie, Manic Street Preachers went for inspiration for the continent-the plots of texts prompted the memories of trips in Europe (and Cuba), wrote a record in the Berlin Studio of Hansa , which is associated again-with the Berlin trilogy of David Bowie. The sound of “Futurology” is completely nostalgic, reminiscent of the combining synthesizers with electrihitars groups of the 1980s- Ultravox , Simple Minds and, of course, Bowie. In the song " Between The Clock And The Bed ” , composed under the impression of the late depressed self -portrait Edward Munk, Green Gartsaide from the underestimated eighties group Scritti joins the vocalist James Bradfield. Politti , who is honored as the best singer Wales. Despite the bright harmony, this is a very bitter song about hopelessness.

A successful “futurology” is an escape to a glorious past from the future, from which 45-year-old musicians, disappointed in socialism, in capitalism, and in the Labor, and in Tori, are not waiting for anything good. Judging by today's news reports, disturbing forebodings do not deceive them.

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