Ahead of releasing their excellent new album Critical Thinking, Manic Street Preachers legend James Dean Bradfield talks cassettes, charts and how they ended up being so loyal to Sony. Oh, and why he regrets splashing so much cash on videos in the ’90s... 

Interview: Niall Doherty   Photo: Alex Lake

Critical Thinking feels like a “cassette album” to me…
“That’s a very esoteric thing to say, I don’t even know what I mean by it, but it feels like a classic ...