Know Your Enemy

by Manic Street Preachers

Know Your Enemy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 March 2001
  • Label: Epic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:05:12
  • Community rating: 3.19/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Mike Hedges, Sean Moore, James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Nick Nasmyth

Album Notes & Community Reviews

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

Descriptors: political, conscious, noisy

Tracklist

  1. Found That Soul (3:05)
  2. Ocean Spray (4:11)
  3. Intravenous Agnostic (4:02)
  4. So Why So Sad (4:01)
  5. Let Robeson Sing (3:46)
  6. The Year of Purification (3:39)
  7. Wattsville Blues (4:28)
  8. Miss Europa Disco Dancer (3:52)
  9. Dead Martyrs (3:23)
  10. His Last Painting (3:15)
  11. My Guernica (4:56)
  12. The Convalescent (5:54)
  13. Royal Correspondent (3:30)
  14. Epicentre (6:25)
  15. Baby Elian (3:38)
  16. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children (3:00)

Credits

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