Name: Know Your Enemy
Brand: Manic Street Preachers

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Deluxe 3CD Book Set. The Third CD is of Previously Unreleased Demos

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Limited edition

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2022-09-09

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Sony

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Manic Street Preachers

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Alternative / Modern

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Manic Street Preachers is a rock group formed in Blackwood, Wales in the late 1980s. The band consists of James Dean Bradfield on lead guitar and vocals, Nicky Wire (also known as Jones) on bass, and Sean Moore on drums. Richey Edwards, who played rhythm guitar, has been missing presumed dead since 1995. Despite this tragic loss, the remaining members have continued as a trio.
Known for their heavy guitar sound, Manic Street Preachers have also gained recognition through remixes by electronic artists. Their music combines elements of rock with electronic influences to create a unique and dynamic sound that appeals to a wide audience.
With their rich musical history and dedication to their craft, Manic Street Preachers have established themselves as influential figures in the music industry. Their powerful performances and thought-provoking lyrics continue to captivate fans around the world.

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Manic Street Preachers release a radically reimagined version of their 6th album Know Your Enemy. The new version of the album has been entirely remixed and reconstructed to form two separate albums as originally planned. Know Your Enemy is available as a 3 CD bookset, double CD and double album.

This deluxe release includes two previously unheard ‘forgotten’ tracks: ‘Studies in Paralysis’ and ‘Rosebud’. Beginning all wiry and cracked, ‘Rosebud’ soon opens out into a stuttering Hammond organ riff, a pensive rhythm track and a lyric that regrets “most things I never finished”. A Kieran Evans directed video for ‘Rosebud’ is online now.

Following the success of 1998’s This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Manic Street Preachers planned an ambitious follow-up to be released as two distinct albums: an aggressive, rapid fire return to their roots called ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’, a more conciliatory, reflective collection. During the recording sessions, the trio got cold feet and settled on a single album that forced often conflicting ideas to sit side by side on the same record. Know Your Enemy was launched in February 2001 with a show at Teatro Karl Marx in Havana in front of the Cuban leader and charted at No.2 in the UK the following week, going on to see over half a million copies worldwide. The singles taken from the album: ‘So Why So Sad’, ‘Found That Soul’, ‘Ocean Spray’ and ‘Let Robeson Sing’ all reached the Top 20.

Whilst going through the band’s archive to put together an anniversary version of Know Your Enemy, Nicky Wire found the original tapes of ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’ that he’d made up in the studio during recording. When he put forward the idea of recreating those records, James Dean Bradfield agreed on the condition that he could remix the entire record with the band’s longtime studio partner Dave Eringa. The new mixes would bring a clarity to each record, losing extraneous studio effects and digital noise from the ‘Solidarity’ songs and stripping away unnecessary orchestration and embellishment from the tracks that made up ‘Door To The River’.

Author and long-term band collaborator Robin Turner explains in his expansive sleeve notes that this release is “the Director’s Cut of ‘Know Your Enemy’. The picture has been painstakingly restored, cleaned up, brightened. Although it doesn’t aim to replace the original, it most certainly enhances it.”

The vinyl edition Know Your Enemy presents ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’ in the same order as originally planned in 2000. Each of the CD packages features those records in full plus outtakes, unused mixes by Tom Lord-Alge and tracks featured on the original Know Your Enemy that aren’t on the two restructured albums. All formats feature previously unseen photos from the recording sessions taken by regular collaborator Mitch Ikeda.