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Manic Street Preachers release a radically reimagined version of their 6th album Know Your Enemy. The new version of the album has been entirely remixed and reconstructed to form two separate albums as originally planned. This deluxe release includes two previously unheard forgotten tracks: Studies in Paralysis and Rosebud. Following the success of 1998s 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 bands 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 hed 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 bands 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.
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