Know Your Enemy 20 scheduled for 2021 release

[michael]

Artwork and tracklisting can all be seen here...
https://music.apple.com/nz/album/kno...ion/1635167097

[polar_bear]

Originally Posted by Routine Builder

From the sample I've heard, Rosebud sounds very much like a TIMT b-side.

I thought this. I forgot it was KYE related while listening.
The organ (?) sound in the background reminds me of Black Holes For The Young.

*edit*

Should add that i really like it. It's always exciting getting a fully formed 'old' song released.

[Glyn]

Originally Posted by michael

Artwork and tracklisting can all be seen here...
https://music.apple.com/nz/album/kno...ion/1635167097

So it is the Avalanches' remix on CD1!

Great to see that the majority of demos are home and cassette recordings. Wire has already mentioned that Let Robeson Sing is completely different and will be very interesting to hear all of those.

[Matt_PhoenixFactor]

Can anyone screenshot the tracklisting and artwork from the NZ iTunes? I can’t get it to open on my phone even with a vpn

[iamjustapatsy]

Anyone want to take a stab at how much this is going to cost? A reasonable £20, or more likely around £40 like the GATS reissue?

[Glyn]

[Glyn]

Originally Posted by iamjustapatsy

Anyone want to take a stab at how much this is going to cost? A reasonable £20, or more likely around £40 like the GATS reissue?

Roan Records has it listed here : https://www.roanrecords.co.uk/product/know-your-enemy/ as a rather reasonable £25 for the boxset and £14 for the 2x cd. Let's see what the official store comes out with for the signed versions (and what the latest extortionate postage cost is !)
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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 digitally and as a 3 CD bookset, double CD and 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.

Deluxe 3CD

Disc 1 – Door To The River

The Year of Purification
Ocean Spray
So Why So Sad (Avalanches Sean Penn Mix)
Door To The River
Rosebud
Just a Kid
His Last Painting
Let Robeson Sing
Groundhog Days
Epicentre
His Last Painting (LA Mix)
Epicentre (TLA Mix)
So Why So Sad (Original KYE Version)
Royal Correspondent

Disc 2 – Solidarity

Intravenous Agnostic
Found That Soul (TLA Mix)
We Are All Bourgeois Now
Freedom of Speech Won’t Feed My Children
The Convalescent
Baby Elian
Masses Against The Classes
My Guernica
Studies In Paralysis
Dead Martyrs
Wattsville Blues
Miss Europa Disco Dancer
Fear Of Motion
Pedestal
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Locust Valley
Masking Tape
Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel

Disc 3 – Demos

Ocean Spray (Studio Demo)
So Why So Sad (Cassette Demo)
Door To The River (Cassette Demo)
His Last Painting (Air Version Home Cassette Demo)
Let Robeson Sing (Home Cassette Demo)
Groundhog Days (Home Cassette Demo)
Epicentre (Cassette Demo)
Intravenous Agnostic (Home Cassette Demo)
Freedom Of Speech Won’t Feed My Children (Studio Demo)
The Convalescent (Studio Rehearsal Demo)
His Last Painting Baby Elian (Studio Demo)
Masses Against The Classes (Studio Demo)
My Guernica No 1 (Home Acoustic Demo)
My Guernica (Studio Demo)
Dead Martyrs (Home Cassette Demo)
Wattsville Blues (Home Cassette Demo)

[Son of Stopped]

Thanks Glyn but ah.... They might want to throw in a t-shirt or hoodie on the official site!
Oh the decisions!

[iamjustapatsy]

Don't forget the usual £7 postage from the official site

[Mr Richey]

Originally Posted by Glyn

Roan Records has it listed here : https://www.roanrecords.co.uk/product/know-your-enemy/ as a rather reasonable £25 for the boxset and £14 for the 2x cd. Let's see what the official store comes out with for the signed versions (and what the latest extortionate postage cost is !)
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Thanks for sharing this!

[IntlDebris]

So normally I'm happy to just replace the standard edition with a deluxe - I really hate owning too much - but looks like I'm going to need to keep both here. I could live with different running orders, but if the remixes are removing effects and orchestrations, this is definitely going to sound like a different record and I'll want to be keeping the original.

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by iamjustapatsy

Don't forget the usual £7 postage from the official site

Would depend on the clothes in the end.

[Lee]

It’s the b-sides at the end of Solidarity that I’m not sure about.

Either whack them on another disk or split them up so they’re on the right album.

Very exciting though either way.

[polar_bear]

Originally Posted by Lee

It’s the b-sides at the end of Solidarity that I’m not sure about.

Either whack them on another disk or split them up so they’re on the right album.

Very exciting though either way.

I'll be sorting my Apple Music out so disc 1 and 2 are based on the LP and everything else sits together.

[FacelessSenseOfVoid]

Originally Posted by Lee

It’s the b-sides at the end of Solidarity that I’m not sure about.

Either whack them on another disk or split them up so they’re on the right album.

Very exciting though either way.

Exactly why the CD format is not fit for purpose any more. Just wish bands would put out ultra high quality digital releases that aren't constrained to a 74 minute disk.