Four major supermarkets in the UK will only stock the Manic Street Preachers new album in a blank sleeve because they believe the artwork is potentially offensive.
Sainsbury's, Asda, Tesco and Morrissons are among stores in the UK who will censor the album cover for 'Journal For Plague Lovers' the ninth studio album from Manic Street Preachers.
The cover (pictured above) is a painting by British artist Jenny Saville and some believe it depicts a child with a bloodied face.
In an interview with BBC6 Music lead singer James Dean Bradfield rubbished the claims that they cover is offensive.
"We just thought it was a beautiful painting. We were all in total agreement."If you're familiar with her work, there's a lot of ochres and browns, and reds and browns and perhaps people are looking for us to be more provocative than we are being. We just saw a much more modern version of Lucian Freud-esque brushstrokes. That's all we saw."
"You can have lovely shiny buttocks and guns everywhere in the supermarket on covers of magazines and CDs," he said, "but you show a piece of art and people just freak out."
Journal For Plague Lovers produced by the legendary Steve Albini is out on Monday 18th of May in the UK.
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