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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF NIXON: The Manics have announced more details of their soon-to-be-with-us new album. Life Blood will be out October 4th, preceeded by The Love of Richard Nixon on September 27th. Looking over the list of other tracks on the album, it seems almost as if they've been competing to write songs with titles that sound like Manics songs:

A Song For Departure, 1985, Firefight, To Repel Ghosts, Emily, Fragments, Askew Road, Solitude Sometimes Is, Glasnost, Always, Never, I Live To Fall Asleep, Cardiff Afterlife, Empty Souls and Litany.

It's all there - the one with the sweeping statement about eternity (Always Never); the one with the foreign name (Glasnost); the 'despair is me' one (I Live To Fall Asleep); the 'did we mention we're Welsh?' one ('Cardiff Afterlife'); the 'haha! famous name in unusual context' one (... Nixon); the clumsy attempt at anthem (Song for Departure).

We're interested to discover Askew Street getting a mention, as that wasn't far from a place we used to live (although we were surprised there's only one in the whole of the country, according to MultiMap). If we were in Liverpool now, we'd be beating a path to pinch both street signs, ready to have them up on Ebay for the start of October...