Know Your Enemy

by Manic Street Preachers

Know Your Enemy cover art

Deliberately abandoning the polished, melancholic string arrangements that garnered them massive late-90s success, the Welsh trio returned to a fractured, confrontational aesthetic. 'Know Your Enemy' is a chaotic, genre-hopping collection that swings wildly between lo-fi punk, abrasive hard rock, and odd forays into disco. The fiercely political songwriting touches on Western imperialism, media saturation, and the band's controversial trip to perform in Cuba.

Genres

  • Alternative Rock

Tracklist

  1. Found That Soul
  2. Ocean Spray
  3. Intravenous Agnostic
  4. So Why So Sad
  5. Let Robeson Sing
  6. The Year of Purification
  7. Wattsville Blues
  8. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
  9. Dead Martyrs
  10. His Last Painting
  11. My Guernica
  12. The Convalescent
  13. Royal Correspondent
  14. Epicentre
  15. Baby Elian
  16. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children