Manic Street Preachers "you can draw some pretty obvious conclusions from the lyrics." Wire, who admitted finding the task of editing this song "pretty choking", eventually composed the music and sang lead vocals after Bradfield found himself unsuited to the task. Bradfield commented that "Journal for Plague Lovers" was an attempt to finally secure the legacy of their former member Richey Edwards and the result was that, during the recording process, it was as close to feeling his presence since his disappearance: "There was a sense of responsibility to do his words justice. That was part of the whole thing of letting enough
Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album) "a disco parody," respectively. The tracks "My Guernica", "His Last Painting" and "The Convalescent" were also described as "dark, marching and charging post-punk anthems." It is the longest album released by the Manic Street Preachers, as it is slightly longer than their debut "Generation Terrorists". On 2014, Sean Moore stated in an interview to a Spanish reporter that the songs included in Know Your Enemy were originally meant for two different albums with different sound and concept. Songs ended up all together in one album as the record label was not kind to put out two albums at the same