A redesign for life...

The cover for Manic Street Preachers new album 'Journal For Plague Lovers' features the painting 'Stare' by Jenny Saville. The LP features lyrics by missing former bandmate Richey Edwards, so it is perhaps appropriate the disturbing cover features a painting based on the photo of a dead boy in a morgue...



Edwards disappeared shortly after the release of the third Manic's album: 'The Holy Bible' which also featured a Jenny Saville painting: 'Strategy'...