Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album)

Know Your Enemy is the sixth studio album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 19 March 2001 by record label Epic. It was supported by four singles; two of them, "So Why So Sad" and "Found That Soul", were released on the same day for promotional purposes.

Know Your Enemy
Studio album by
Manic Street Preachers
Released19 March 2001
RecordedAugust–December 2000
Studio
GenreAlternative rock
Length75:34
LabelEpic
Producer
Manic Street Preachers chronology
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
(1998)		 Know Your Enemy
(2001)		 Forever Delayed
(2002)
Singles from Know Your Enemy
  1. "So Why So Sad"
    Released: 26 February 2001
  2. "Found That Soul"
    Released: 26 February 2001
  3. "Ocean Spray"
    Released: 4 June 2001
  4. "Let Robeson Sing"
    Released: 10 September 2001
Alternative cover
Cover of the 2022 version

The band originally envisioned Know Your Enemy as two separate albums: Door to the River, which consisted of reflective, personal material, and the heavier, more politically leaning Solidarity, with the intent of releasing both on the same day. Epic was not inclined to follow through on the idea (as they would later do in 2013–2014 with Rewind the Film and Futurology), so the material ended up released as one album, a move that drummer Sean Moore described as "strange" and "confusing".

Whilst Know Your Enemy sold well commercially, it did not match the same success as its predecessor, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. Critics were somewhat divided in their opinions, but its reception has been mostly positive. In 2022, the band released a remixed version of Know Your Enemy, with a revised track listing closer to the double album that they previously intended.

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