Paul's picks Know Your Enemy (Reconstructed) Manic Street Preachers SKU: 19439988681 Barcode: 194399886816 25.00 £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia Released Date: 9th September 2022 Buying Format: 2LP Know Your Enemy (Reconstructed) quantity Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Manic Street Preachers release a radically reimagined version of their 6th album ‘Know Your Enemy’ on 9th September 2022. The new version of the album has been entirely remixed and reconstructed to form two separate albums as originally planned. ‘Know Your Enemy’ will be available as double album. This deluxe release includes two previously unheard ‘forgotten’ tracks: ‘Studies in Paralysis’ and ‘Rosebud’, which is available online today (22nd July 2022). 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. Manic Street Preachers’ last studio album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ went to No.1 on release in September 2021. They followed its release with a headline tour of the UK. This year, they opened the BBC6 Music Festival in Cardiff and have headlined several UK festivals. Artist Manic Street Preachers Genre Rock And Pop Label Columbia Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings DISC 1 - DOOR TO THE RIVER Side 1 The Year of Purification Ocean Spray So Why So Sad (Avalanches Sean Penn Mix) Door To The River Rosebud Side 2 Just a Kid His Last Painting Let Robeson Sing Groundhog Days Epicentre DISC 2 - SOLIDARITY Side 1 Intravenous Agnostic Found That Soul (TLA Mix) We Are All Bourgeois Now Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children The Convalescent Baby Elian Side 2 Masses Against The Classes My Guernica Studies In Paralysis Dead Martyrs Wattsville Blues Miss Europa Disco Dancer Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Manic Street Preachers View Product Quick View Manic Street Preachers Lifeblood: 20th Anniversary Rock And Pop | Sony | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 12th April 2024 £32.00 - £36.00 Select options Manic Street Preachers Lifeblood: 20th Anniversary £32.00 - £36.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 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