• Record Label: Virgin
  • Release Date: Apr 24, 2001
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 26 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Negative: 2 out of 26

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  1. JossS.
    Dec 25, 2001
    4
    is it just me or has manic street preachers sounded like they have sold out since james's disappearance.
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. 70
    Know Your Enemy loses all its momentum when Manic Street Preachers decide that they have something to say.
  2. 70
    The record is such a sprawling, unwieldy beast that the instrumental hooks take time to emerge.
  3. 60
    Know Your Enemy is a fine -- if slightly long and somewhat fractured -- primer to the moods of one of Britain's most (self) important bands