Even in Exile is the second solo studio album by the Manic Street Preachers vocalist and guitarist James Dean Bradfield.
[3] In June 2020, two preview songs were released, "There'll Come a War" and "Seeking the Room with the Three Windows", followed up by the album's first single "The Boy from the Plantation" being premiered by Steve Lamacq on 1 July 2020 on BBC Radio 6.
[5] In addition, James Dean Bradfield cited Man and their album The Welsh Connection,[6] Pink Floyd and Meddle,[6] German musician Nico and The Marble Index,[6] as well as Johnny Marr and the band Rush as influences on Even in Exile.
Patrick Clarke of NME called it "a deft, heartfelt and above all personal record that pays fitting tribute to Jara's immense legacy, all the while providing a platform for some of Bradfield's finest songwriting in recent years".
Their frontman, James Dean Bradfield, that pocket pugilist with a valley chorister’s voice, has made an album–length tribute to Víctor Jara, the Chilean musician and activist murdered by Pinochet’s mob.