This is, says bassist-vocalist Nicky Wire “a record of opposites colliding - of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution.” The songs “are microcosms of meaninglessness in a world so brutal and ...

A new song-by-song history tells the epic tale of the radical Welsh band, from glam-punk Valleys teens to melancholic centrist dads. But does it manage to resolve their complicated contradictions? In ...