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Manic Street Preachers unveil previously-unreleased track ‘Studies In Paralysis’

Connor Gotto by Connor Gotto
August 28, 2022
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Manic Street Preachers have shared the previously unheard song Studies In Paralysis.

The track is the latest to be lifted from the expanded and remastered version of the group’s 2001 album ‘Know Your Enemy’.

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Divided across two discs – ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’ – a 3CD version also features a set of unreleased demos.

Alongside the single the group have shared a music video, with director Kieran Evans saying: “It started with an email from [Nicky] Wire (it always does!).  

“Would I be up for working on visualising two unheard tracks from the ‘Know Your Enemy’ sessions that were to feature in the beautifully expanded and reworked re-issue of the album?  

“Of course I would! Both ‘Rosebud’ and ‘Studies In Paralysis’ landed an hour later and were stunning and took my breath away. Fuck me…They left these off the original album…what were they thinking???!!!

“An hour later, another email landed from him – ‘I’ll send some DV footage of the Miloco sessions up to you’. But this footage was very different from previous recording sessions he’d filmed. 

“There was a seriousness to everyone’s behaviour and recording performances. There was no frivolity or funny off camera ‘moments’. The atmosphere felt intense, you could feel the pressure they were under.”

He adds: “Cutting this footage to ‘Studies in Paralysis’ was a task. I went through many iterations and edits to get the right “feel” to reflect what is a truly glorious song… 

“Thankfully…I think we definitely got there in the end.”

The group’s sixth long-player was released back in 2001 and, at the time, they planned to issue it as a two-part album. 

“During the recording sessions [for the original album], 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,” says a statement. 

“Whilst going through the band’s archive to put together an anniversary version of ‘Know Your Enemy’, Nicky Wire found the original tapes of ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’ that he’d 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 band’s longtime studio partner Dave Eringa.

“The new mixes would bring a clarity to each record, losing extraneous studio effects and digital noise from the ‘Solidarity’ songs and stripping away unnecessary orchestration and embellishment from the tracks that made up ‘Door To The River’.”

Know Your Enemy’ is out September 9 and available to pre-order now. 

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Connor Gotto

Founder and editor of RETROPOP. Self-proclaimed pop aficionado. Usually seen with a wine in hand.

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