Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album)

Know Your Enemy
Studio album by Manic Street Preachers
Released	19 March 2001
Recorded	August–December 2000
Studio	El Cortijo, Andalusia, Spain Monnow Valley, Rockfield, Wales Rockfield, Rockfield, Wales Abbey Road, London, England Big Noise Recorders, Cardiff, Wales AIR, London, England RAK, London, England
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	75:34
Label	Epic
Producer	Dave Eringa David Holmes Greg Haver Mike Hedges
Manic Street Preachers chronology
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) Know Your Enemy (2001) Forever Delayed (2002)
Singles from Know Your Enemy
"So Why So Sad" Released: 26 February 2001 "Found That Soul" Released: 26 February 2001 "Ocean Spray" Released: 4 June 2001 "Let Robeson Sing" Released: 10 September 2001
Alternative cover
Cover of the 2022 version

Know Your Enemy is the sixth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 19 March 2001 by Epic Records. It was supported by four singles, all of which reached the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart.^[1]

The band originally envisioned Know Your Enemy as two separate albums with very different sounds and concepts, with the intention of releasing both on the same day. However, the record label vetoed the idea and a compromise was made, resulting in a single, lengthy, very diverse record.^[2] Whilst the album sold well, it did not match the success of its predecessor, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. Critics were somewhat divided in their opinions at first, but its reception since has been more positive.

In 2022, the band released remixed and expanded 2- and 3-disc editions of Know Your Enemy, rearranging the tracks into the two separate albums as originally intended.