Manic Street Preachers – (It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love

If ‘(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love’ doesn’t get you excited about the Manic Street Preachers’ upcoming 10th album, Postcards From A Young Man, then something seriously isn’t right. The band’s guitarist and singer, James Dean Bradfield, has promised an album of big radio hits, assuring fans that it’s going to be huge, full of the type of rock anthems that made the band so likeable back in the ‘90s. ‘It’s Not War’ is just this. The song opens with Bradfield’s signature punchy guitar sound, and is soon joined by an array of strings, the sounds of which never fail to act as the perfect complement to great rock songs. The choruses are typically huge, full of power and littered with catchy vocal lines, securing the song a long stay on radio playlists over the coming weeks.