No Rock And Roll Fun

NEW MANICS GO ALL NEW LABOUR: The NME is offering a chance to hear the new Manic Street Preachers single
'so why so sad', eh?
it's sleeper attempting to recreate the Spector wall of sound with medium density fibreboard. Sounding like a band so desperate for a new direction, they'd follow an egg wagon along a country lane. NME.com is saying "not what we expected" - in the sense, presumably, that the manics have never done 'pleasant but vacuous' before.