Critical Thinking is the fifteenth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.

This is a record of opposites colliding - of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution. While the music has an effervescence and an elegiac uplift, most of the words deal with the cold analysis of the self, the exception being the three lyrics by James (Dean Bradfield) which look for and hopefully find answers in people, their memories, language and beliefs.

Track listing

1: Critical Thinking
2: Decline & Fall
3: Brushstrokes of Reunion
4: Hiding in Plain Sight
5: People Ruin Paintings
6: Dear Stephen
7: Being Baptised
8: My Brave Friend
9: Out of Time Revival
10: Deleted Scenes
11: Late Day Peaks
12: OneManMilitia