Know Your Enemy

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