Enter Shikari - A Kiss For The Whole World (April 21, 2023) • Page 5

Agree wholeheartedly. Those demos/songs around that TTTS era are so special to me. I have been trying to get them on vinyl for a while now. Might need to do a custom lathe haha.

 

I love ‘Return To Energiser’, but those lows at the start aren’t easy on the ear.

 

Lows at the start? Vocally or specific songs?

 

talking about Rou's vocals, that specific low inhale scream he does on TTTS that just sounds really bad lol. makes Closing absolutely unlistenable to me

 

Common Dreads

Mindsweep
AFFOC
TTTS

Nothing Is Real
Spark

Common Dreads is absolute King.

 

Gotta revisit Common Dreads, so much love for that record here!

 

I don't have any problems with it. Love it.

 

The only song I don't really care for on Common Dreads is Step Up.

There always seems to be one song like that on each album for me. I don't like Search Party that much either on AFFOC.

 

Haha I don't think it's bad, I just don't really vibe with it. I like Pack of Thieves so much more and I think they occupy the same kinda energy.

 

I see that! Search Party is one of my favorites on the record, the build up and twinkly synths are gorgeous, then the riff in the bridge hits hard. Love the different opinions though!

im halfway through CD and it’s good and the energy is off the charts, just a bit tiring and way too long imo. still stand by the statement that it was a transition record, one where they were trying to figure out where to go

 

The ones I need to go back to are The Spark and The Mindsweep.

 

Setlist from London yesterday. Insane.

Enter Shikari Setlist at HERE at Outernet, London

 

Insanely jealous of anyone who got to hear Undercover Agents, Stand Your Ground, Enter Shikari, and The Last Garrison. They played none of those during the last tour.

edit: Radiate was supposed to be played too! One of my faves.

 

I had no idea this existed. It sounds crazy different. Sounds so much just like everything else at the time haha

 

new song tomorrow

 

A snippet

 

Didn't realize it was coming out in mere minutes

It's fine but I think it would benefit from a longer runtime or looser song structures. I don't know if it's exactly the main thing that has been bothering me this era, but overall these pre-release singles aren't getting me hyped as much as ones from previous albums did.

 

dig it.

 

it’s ok, def my least fav of the 3

 

Very underwhelmed with this rollout so far.
Songs sound empty af:/

 

It's really weird because I couldn't put my finger on what I didn't like about them but you're totally right especially with It Hurts and Bloodshot. It feels hollow and just formulaic in the lyrical style and the choruses.

 

I loooooved It Hurts

 

I've liked all the songs without loving any of them. It feels as formulaic - or at least, as much as a Shikari song can.

If we're ranking albums

Common Dreads
Nothing is True
AFFOC

The Spark

The Mindsweep
TTTS

And if you put all their non-album singles together into a single release, it would probably be between AFFOC and The Spark.