{"id":19377,"date":"2022-07-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:07:50","slug":"manic-street-preachers-know-your-enemy-remixed-reconstructed-and-re-issued-as-two-separate-albums-as-originally-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=19377","title":{"rendered":"MANIC STREET PREACHERS &#8211; \u2018KNOW YOUR ENEMY\u2019 REMIXED, RECONSTRUCTED AND RE-ISSUED AS TWO SEPARATE ALBUMS AS ORIGINALLY INTENDED:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SET FOR RELEASE 9TH\u00a0SEPTEMBER 2022 VIA COLUMBIA RECORDS <a href=\"https:\/\/manicstreetpreachers.lnk.to\/KnowYourEnemyPR\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/manicstreetpreachers.lnk.to\/KnowYourEnemyPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mail-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mail-5-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mail-5-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mail-5-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mail-5.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Manic Street Preachers&nbsp;<\/strong>release a radically reimagined version of their 6th album \u2018<em><strong>Know Your Enemy<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 on&nbsp;<strong>9th<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>September 2022<\/strong>.&nbsp;The new version of the album has been entirely remixed and reconstructed to form two separate albums as originally planned. \u2018<em>Know Your Enemy<\/em>\u2019 will be available digitally and as a 3 CD bookset, double CD and double album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This deluxe release includes two previously unheard \u2018forgotten\u2019 tracks: \u2018<em>Studies in Paralysis\u2019<\/em>\u00a0and \u2018<em>Rosebud<\/em>\u2019, which is available online today. Beginning all wiry and cracked, \u2018<em>Rosebud<\/em>\u2019 soon opens out into a stuttering Hammond organ riff, a pensive rhythm track and a lyric that regrets \u201c<em>most things I never finished<\/em>\u201d.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manic Street Preachers - Rosebud (Remastered - Official Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knOT3atcGSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the success of 1998\u2019s\u2019&nbsp;<em>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours<\/em>\u2019, Manic Street Preachers planned an ambitious follow-up to be released as two distinct albums: an aggressive, rapid fire return to their roots called \u2018<em>Solidarity<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>Door To The River<\/em>\u2019, 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. \u2018<em>Know Your<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Enemy<\/em>\u2019 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: \u2018<strong><em>So Why So Sad<\/em><\/strong>\u2019, \u2018<em><strong>Found That Soul<\/strong><\/em>\u2019, \u2018<strong><em>Ocean Spray<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 and \u2018<strong><em>Let Robeson Sing<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 all reached the Top 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst going through the band\u2019s archive to put together an anniversary version of \u2018<em>Know Your Enemy<\/em>\u2019, Nicky Wire found the original tapes of \u2018<em>Solidarity<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>Door To The Rive<\/em>r\u2019 that he\u2019d 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\u2019s longtime studio partner Dave Eringa. The new mixes would bring a clarity to each record, losing extraneous studio effects and digital noise from the \u2018<em>Solidarity<\/em>\u2019 songs and stripping away unnecessary orchestration and embellishment from the tracks that made up \u2018<em>Door To The Rive<\/em>r\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author and long-term band collaborator Robin Turner explains in his expansive sleeve notes that this release is \u201c<em>the Director\u2019s Cut of \u2018Know Your Enemy\u2019. The picture has been painstakingly restored, cleaned up, brightened. Although it doesn\u2019t aim to replace the original, it most certainly enhances it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vinyl edition \u2018<em>Know Your Enemy<\/em>\u2019 presents \u2018<em>Solidarity<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>Door To The River<\/em>\u2019 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 \u2018<em>Know Your Enemy<\/em>\u2019 that aren\u2019t on the two restructured albums. All formats feature previously unseen photos from the recording sessions taken by regular collaborator Mitch Ikeda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manic Street Preachers\u2019 last studio album \u2018<em>The Ultra Vivid Lament<\/em>\u2019 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. Upcoming tour dates below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Know Your Enemy &#8211; September 9th &#8211; Columbia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manicstreetpreachers\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manicstreetpreachers\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/manics\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/manics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Manics\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Manics\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manicstreetpreachers.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.manicstreetpreachers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SET FOR RELEASE 9TH\u00a0SEPTEMBER 2022 VIA COLUMBIA RECORDS Here Manic Street Preachers&nbsp;release a radically reimagined version of their 6th album \u2018Know Your Enemy\u2019 on&nbsp;9th&nbsp;September 2022.&nbsp;The new version of the album has been entirely remixed and reconstructed to form two separate albums as originally planned. \u2018Know Your Enemy\u2019 will be available digitally and as a 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1787,231,1818,1710,1681,2052],"class_list":["post-19377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-manic-street-preachers","tag-new-album","tag-rpm-online","tag-rpmnews1","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19380,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions\/19380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}