Nicky Wire

Intimism Nicky Wire RSD 2026 edition

Intimism is Nicky Wire’s, the bassist and lyricist for Manic Street Preachers, second solo album, following up his 2006 solo debut, I Killed The Zeitgeist. Originally released as a digital only album in 2023 this limited edition green marble vinyl edition is the first very first time it has been released as a physical product.

Wire says Intimism is “as me as me can be – a distillation of my purest indie fantasies, a place where all those broken lists of regret have found themselves realigned. I found a musical and lyrical language I could call my own. A landscape of mundane miracles, interior monologues and lacerating self loathing. As the song says: ‘I am an -ist / I am an -ism / a lifelong affair with tunnel vision”.