A cover that's so controversial that supermarkets won't sell it. Deciding to release no singles to promote your album. Sometimes, it's like the last fifteen years never happened as Manic Street Preachers return with their ninth studio album, Journal for Plague Lovers.

SunnO)))’s seventh album, Monoliths & Dimensions, presents Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson’s sonic murk as something to delve into, their inescapable walls of low-end suddenly beaming with purpose and a million and one instruments.