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Manic Street Preachers release a radically reimagined version of their 6th albumnbspKnow Your Enemy. The new version of the album has been entirely remixed and reconstructed to form two separate albums as originally planned.nbspKnow Your Enemynbspis available as a 3 CD bookset, double CD and double album.This deluxe release includes two previously unheard lsquoforgottenrsquo tracks lsquoStudies in Paralysisrsquo and lsquoRosebudrsquo. Beginning all wiry and cracked, lsquoRosebudrsquo soon opens out into a stuttering Hammond organ riff, a pensive rhythm track and a lyric that regrets ldquomost things I never finishedrdquo. A Kieran Evans directed video for lsquoRosebudrsquo is online now.Following the success of 1998rsquosnbspThis Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Manic Street Preachers planned an ambitious followup to be released as two distinct albums an aggressive, rapid fire return to their roots called lsquoSolidarityrsquo and lsquoDoor To The Riverrsquo, 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.nbspKnow Your Enemynbspwas 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 lsquoSo Why So Sadrsquo, lsquoFound That Soulrsquo, lsquoOcean Sprayrsquo and lsquoLet Robeson Singrsquo all reached the Top 20.Whilst going through the bandrsquos archive to put together an anniversary version ofnbspKnow Your Enemy, Nicky Wire found the original tapes of lsquoSolidarityrsquo and lsquoDoor To The Riverrsquo that hersquod 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 bandrsquos longtime studio partner Dave Eringa. The new mixes would bring a clarity to each record, losing extraneous studio effects and digital noise from the lsquoSolidarityrsquo songs and stripping away unnecessary orchestration and embellishment from the tracks that made up lsquoDoor To The Riverrsquo.Author and longterm band collaborator Robin Turner explains in his expansive sleeve notes that this release is ldquothe Directorrsquos Cut of lsquoKnow Your Enemyrsquo. The picture has been painstakingly restored, cleaned up, brightened. Although it doesnrsquot aim to replace the original, it most certainly enhances it.rdquoThe vinyl editionnbspKnow Your Enemynbsppresents lsquoSolidarityrsquo and lsquoDoor To The Riverrsquo 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 LordAlge and tracks featured on the originalnbspKnow Your Enemynbspthat arenrsquot on the two restructured albums. All formats feature previously unseen photos from the recording sessions taken by regular collaborator Mitch Ikeda. Manic Street Preachers CD is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £14