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Release Date
16 September 2010
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Length
12 tracks
Postcards From a Young Man is the tenth studio album by the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
The album was released on 20 September 2010, going into the UK Album Charts at number 3. It was released in a standard version, two-disc deluxe version and limited edition box set. In January 2011 the album achieved Gold status (100,000 copies) in the UK.
The album was promoted by the single "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love", which peaked on number 28 in the UK Singles Chart, the band's lowest charting single since 1994's "She Is Suffering". The second single of the album, "Some Kind of Nothingness", featured Echo & the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch and entered the UK singles chart at number 44, making it the first ever Manics single to not make the Top 40 since they signed to Sony in 1991. The third and last single was the title track "Postcards from a Young Man".
The album was met with positive reviews from critics, holding a score of 76/100 on review aggregator website Metacritic based on sixteen mainstream critics reviews.
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