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Track Listings
| 1. Stand Your Ground; This is Ancient Land |
| 2. Enter Shikari |
| 3. Mothership |
| 4. Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour |
| 5. (interlude) |
| 6. Labyrinth |
| 7. No Sssweat |
| 8. Today Won't Go Down In History |
| 9. (interlude) |
| 10. Return To Energizer |
| 11. (interlude) |
| 12. Sorry You're Not A Winner |
| 13. (interlude) |
| 14. Jonny Sniper |
| 15. Adieu |
| 16. OK Time For Plan B |
| 17. (interlude) |
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You are standing in a field with thousands of others; let's say all one hundred and twenty thousand of their myspace friends. So this is a rave, but what sort of music is it; Trancecore, Emocore, Nu-Emotional Hardcore Rave, Electro-screamo? Whatever. The truth is that unfettered by the dictats of a major label's marketing department these four kids from Hertfordshire have been free to wander around lifting from several seemingly clashing scenes. What they have created may not be unique but has not been seen in the mainstream before. One part hardcore, one part rock, a big splash of trance, and a twist of drum 'n' bass. It is, as they say, a heady mix, and somehow it might! just! work!
At its best it is exhilarating, as in the three part opening that goes off like free trance party in the wilds of Gloucestershire and culminates in the euphoric 'Mothership'. Immediately afterwards the tension is ratcheted up by the insistent drive of 'Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour'. Somewhere in the middle 'No Sssweat' sidetracks down a fresh lane marked skacore by means of cheeky lyrics about eating your hand. After that charming detour 'Return To Energizer' brings back the hardcore. The trademark growling screams and heart lifting gang choruses segueing bafflingly seamlessly into beautifully placed trance synths. It is a perfect display of the band's art.
Sometimes it all misfires - the electronics on 'Labyrinth' simply sound too eighties, and they foolhardily plunder that decade again for the guitars in 'Johnny Sniper'. However, what takes this album a few notches above the average hardcore is it's an ear for melody. This is best displayed the end-of-the-party 'Adieu' which displays the harmonic prowess to suggest these boys could rival Keane if it all went pear shaped.
You sense they get this too because the swiftly trash that notion with a couple of final 'core flourishes - the splendid final showdown of 'OK, Time For Plan B' and a final reprise telling us once more that they will be still be here next time - 'standing like statues'. All power to that. And bring more drum and bass next time. --James Young
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I gave this version of the album 4 out of 5 simply because I dont really think its worth getting the DVD, unless you were actually there at the Astoria, in which case its nice to see yourself looking sweaty. I've seen enter shikari twice and this live video doesnt do them justice at all. Its cool to see them messing around backstage, but its nowhere near the same as being there. Its also made me realise just how irritating enter shikari fans actually are...a lot of the DVD is a load of 15year olds caressing their girlfriends going on about how original enter shikari are. Mate, I know they're great, its why I bought the CD. If only there was more actual songs (theres only about 3 or 4 played) and less chat.
Otherwise, GET THE ALBUM, AND GO AND SEE ENTER SHIKARI LIVE... THEY'RE AMAAAAZING!
this is hardcore with the most amazing vocal melodies ala jimmy eat world at times and then the singer just screams but never in an annoying manner.
the album is perhaps a couple of tracks too long, the poppier ones could have been culled but then debuts arent meant to be the final version, long live enter shikari i say.
Roar and scream style vocals don't grab my attention yet in this offering the style is used cleverly. The tracks that hit me were Enter SHikari, Mothership, No Sssweat, Return To Energiser, Jonny Sniper and OK, Time For Plan B.
The first three tracks captivated me to continue throught he album and I find myself taking it with me in the car far more often than my ultimate band of all time, Queen (in my opinion). Within it's genre, Take To The Skies is a masterpiece and I look forward to more offerings from this young band.
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