Resistance Is Futile Manic Street Preachers – Resistance Is Futile is the thirteenth album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. November 2017 the band announced the new album, their first to be recorded at their new studio near Newport. Described as “widescreen melancholia” and an attempt to recall the sound of Generation Terrorists and Everything Must Go, the band said that the album came together after some “old school hard work”, focusing deep on every song so they could be “as best as possible”.