Enter Shikari is one of those bands that I wish I had
discovered a decade ago. They’re a quartet of Brits that like to make music
that sounds like post hardcore, techno, and protest tunes were thrown into a
blender and never stopped spinning. Go listen to A Flash Flood of Colour, they put the entire album (with remixes
and live tracks) on YouTube themselves. If you really like it you can even buy it. Who says I can’t
write about something other than video games; today we find out what others may be
fighting for.
Countries are just lines drawn in the sand drawn with
a stick. I like this lyric, it makes sense. A multitude of problems in the
world today affect us all and won’t be resolved until we work together to
figure it all out. Too bad everyone still has their own interests placed above
everyone else. I’m also happy to report that this record is not all doom and
gloom, there is plenty of less dense subject matter that you can nod your head
to or do menial tasks to. I like to listen to really loud, angry music while
washing dishes.
System…Meltdown is the first two tracks on the album. I
like it. It’s a good pump up track with the line from above; building on itself
with an extended intro and coming in pummel the world’s problems into
submission. Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannocide. That’s a song title, anyone
who has an excuse to yell out a phrase like that is alright in my book. The
real icing on the cake are the catchy guitar riffs Rory C. lays down. They’re
not supposed to invoke your 80’s speed metal memories; Warm Smiles Will Not
Make You Welcome Here has a riff that gets stuck in my head for days.
After listening to Take
to the Skies and The Mindsweep I
really wish I had gotten into Enter Shikari and listened to all of their material
as it came out. There is a ton of growth that has happened over the last
decade and they've even kept the same line up the entire time. It’s unfortunate that acts like Lost Prophets and Bullet for My
Valentine had much more mainstream success than Enter Shikari, but then again a
hype machine could have affected how their albums were written. Go listen to A Flash Flood of Colour, anything can
happen in the next three and a half hours…
