Know Your Enemy - Manic Street Preachers
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57 out of 100

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  • Summary: The first album from the Manics in three years features the singles "Found That Soul" and "So Why So Sad."

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Pitchfork
    75
    Know Your Enemy finds the Manics attempting to write a protest song in just about every genre. This project, stretched out over 16 tracks and 75 minutes, quickly reaches epic proportions, with an ambition approached only by the magnitude of its flaws.
  2. HOB.com
    70
    Know Your Enemy loses all its momentum when Manic Street Preachers decide that they have something to say.
  3. All Music Guide
    60
    When it works, this can be pretty invigorating, but when it doesn't, it's utterly maddening.
  4. Rolling Stone
    0
    Nowhere amidst all the confusion is there even a worthwhile tune to be salvaged. Hideously dull.

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. JorisV.
    10
    Sorry people I don't get it, It's my favourite Manics album and one you can listen to over and over again because of the great variety of styles! From Ocean Spray to intensive rockers as Intravenous Agnostic and the great Dead Martyrs, this album is the real thing. Experimental and beautiful, a not so common combination nowadays… Expand
  2. JuliaA
    8
    there's nothing wrong with this album, but the thing that made it sounds bad was people are still in such a mood of 'This Is My Truth...'...you know...TIMTTMY was not a quick-paced music,so when they're back with the rocky KYE,it was a bit of 'shock therapy' for people (the critiques).this is an alright album with superb contents. but still...I gave it 8 because eventhough I'm an avid fan of every single MSP album, I can't get myself to enjoy 'Wattsville Blues' (Nicky must be drunk when he sings,it's so out of tunes) and 'So Why So Sad' (it must be the intro.that 'parapa-parapa-parapa' chants made it sounded,well,cheesy).those two songs just don't fit there.… Expand
  3. donniedarko
    7
    some songs are very good! Ocean spray, So why so sad are the best, and u will never find songs similar to them in any album in the history, but as a whole This is My Truth Tell me Yours is their best album! maybe the only album in my music listening history that i really loved each single song in it!… Expand
  4. JossS.
    4
    is it just me or has manic street preachers sounded like they have sold out since james's disappearance.

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