Sadly, Wire also told NME that there wouldn’t be an extensive tour to hear the album played in full as they did with past anniversaries for ‘The Holy Bible’, ‘Everything Must Go’ and ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’ — but the band do have some treats in store for fans this summer. Reynolds, Simon (October 1993). Marks, Craig (ed.). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul". Spin. Vol.9, no.7. p.104 . Retrieved 3 July 2020. Gold Against the Soul Deluxe Re-Issue". Manic Street Preachers. 11 March 2020 . Retrieved 27 June 2020. Carr, Paul (12 June 2020). "Manic Street Preachers Remaster 'Gold Against the Soul' with Deluxe Edition". PopMatters . Retrieved 3 July 2020. By the time the band got down to writing what would become Gold Against the Soul, it’s fair to say that their career hadn’t gone completely to plan. The band’s debut, Generation Terrorists hadn’t sold more than Appetite For Destruction and they hadn’t split up. With that headline-grabbing line from their manifesto that wasn’t a manifesto unfulfilled, the band were left with a stark choice. They could quietly disband and celebrate a glorious failure, or they could embark on an actual music career and find out what the Manics might sound like next.

Trefor, Cai (25 November 2015). "The 27 greatest Welsh bands of all time". Gigwise . Retrieved 14 May 2021. Following 2014's acclaimed Futurology, the stellar, anthemic 2018 album Resistance Is Futile reaffirmed the Manics' position as the UK's most resilient and enduring guitar band. As well as continuing to make brilliant new music, their ongoing series of reissues provides reminders of how they won that position in the first place. The latest album to receive the treatment is 1993's Gold Against The Soul. Roses In The Hospital’ meanwhile could have been written for a genuine pop idol – no wonder the Kylie collaboration later followed – with its catchy call-and-response verses and feet-shuffling drum machine, yet it also hints at a bleak outlook the band would explore further on their next release, ‘The Holy Bible’. ‘Symphony Of Tourette’ is perhaps the victim of trying to maintain an alternative outlook while hiding beneath “the corporate wing”, as its attempts to recall to the Manics’ Guns N Roses-fuelled roots get muddled in a maelstrom of needless guitar effects (it’s almost nostalgic to hear a Flanger pedal going full pelt these days).Simon Price of The Telegraph opined that the lyrics on Gold Against the Soul "switched from the political [of Generation Terrorists] to the personal". [5] The lyrical content is considerably less political than their previous album Generation Terrorists, and the album is more reflective of the despair and melancholy of their later work. [3] s ’10 Year Collector’s Edition’ of Send Away The Tigers abandoned the box format and was actually consistent with the deluxe editions of the new albums and then in 2018 the This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 20th anniversary collector’s edition was different yet again. This time not a 12-inch box, not a DVD-sized hardcover book deluxe set, but an 8.5” square book which looks like nothing else they’ve put out. Surely the reissue of Gold Against The Soul will be consistent with something, if only by accident!? Well, no actually. Yes, it is a hardcover book, but it’s A4-sized and can’t sit properly alongside the 12-inch boxes (they’re too big) or the smaller deluxe sets (they’re too small). Nothing is ‘just right’ so Gold Against The Soul is like an outcast having to sit on its own. Maybe that was the idea – we know they don’t really like it! Gourlay, Dom (22 June 2020). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul – Deluxe Edition (Columbia/Sony)". Under the Radar . Retrieved 3 July 2020. Arundell, Jimi (11 June 2020). "Manic Street Preachers Reissue Gold Against The Soul & Finally Give Their Second Album the Respect It Deserves". FMS . Retrieved 23 August 2020.

Stokes, Paul (12 May 2011). "Album A&E – Manic Street Preachers, 'Gold Against The Soul' ". NME . Retrieved 31 December 2014.a b Kane, Peter (August 1993). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul". Q. No.83. p.89. Archived from the original on 11 March 2002 . Retrieved 4 January 2013. We also get an almost-complete selection of remixes from the period. Ashley Beedle provides two big beat-flavoured takes on 'Roses In The Hospital', while the same song gets twisted into Orb-style dub techno on the Filet O Gang and ECG remixes. These are all pretty standard fare aside from a slow, booming and chaotic remake of 'LA Tristesse Durera' by the Chemical Brothers. Gilbert, Pat (August 2020). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul – Deluxe Edition". Mojo. No.321. p.102.