Two years in the making and how wonderful to see it fly out unto the world to add to the material that already exists to tell the story of Victor Jara’s brave and tragic story. I wrote the lyrics for the tracks inspired by Victor Jara’s life and legacy and resonance to 2020. Beautiful to work with my dear friend and guitar hero James Dean Bradfield.

‘To see myself among so much
and so many moments of infinity
in which silence and screams
are the end of my song.
What I see, I have never seen
What I have felt and what I feel
Will give birth to the moment …’

Victor Jara

James Dean Bradfield’s new album ‘Even In Exile’ is out now. You can Purchase/Stream/Download it here.

Here’s just a small selection of the great reviews the album has received in the press:

“Intriguing, emotive… all the stagey anthemic qualities you get from classic Manic Street Preachers” – 8/10 – Uncut

“Lyrical, memorable and exciting” – 4/5 – Record Collector

“Some of Bradfield’s finest songwriting in recent years” – 4/5 – NME

“In Bradfield’s capable hands, such enormous sounds echo the scale of Jara’s injustice.” 4/5 – The Independent

“Even without his bandmates, Bradfield manages to do what Manics have always done better than everybody else; explore the politics, history and legacy of art through an accessible rock and roll lens.” – 7.5/10 – The Line Of Best Fit

“One of our greatest living guitarists has conjured up something truly special.” – 9/10 – Clash