Manic Street Preachers began recording their new album last month in Berlin, the band have said on Twitter.
The Manics have been on a lengthy, self-imposed break from music since the touring campaign behind their tenth studio album ‘Postcards From a Young Man‘ was concluded with a special, career-spanning gig in London at the end of 2011; a concert also arranged to help celebrate their subsequent singles collection ‘National Treasures‘.
But writing on Twitter this week, the group have revealed they travelled to Berlin at the beginning of 2013 to start work with Alex Silva, who produced the landmark 1994 LP ‘The Holy Bible‘.
“M.S.P were in the great Hansa Studios in January with Alex Silva (who recorded the Holy Bible with us) – berlin was inspirational xx,” the Tweet reads.
Hansa studios is best known for being the home of David Bowie during a portion of his Berlin stay in the mid-70s, when the 1977 album ‘Heroes‘ was recorded, as well as parts of its predecessor ‘Low‘.
It is also where Iggy Pop laid down his own influential 1977 solo LPs ‘The Idiot‘ and ‘Lust For Life‘ with Bowie in attendance – a collaboration now set to be the subject of a new film from the lens of Death Of a President director Gabriel Strange.
