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Take to the Skies [Explicit Lyrics]

~ Enter Shikari

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Audio CD (30 Oct 2007)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Tiny Evil
ASIN: B000WCCUZO
Other Editions: Audio CD

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)

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3. Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour...

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5. No Sssweat

6. Today Won't Go Down in History

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8. Sorry, You're Not a Winner

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The debut album from St Albans quartet Enter Shikari is an impressive testament to one band's spirited self-reliance. Not only does Take To The Skies touch down on Shikari's own homegrown label, Ambush Reality, this is the sort of unlikely soundclash – hardcore punk meets glowstick-waving rave – that millions said wouldn't work, but when done right, very clearly does. Not everyone will get it, of course – you can almost hear the generation gap yawning as "Stand Your Ground; This Is Ancient Land" kicks in - a mix of drum'n'bass snares, trance keyboards, and growled profanity that should leave the older rockers scratching their heads. But like Lostprophets before them, Enter Shikari are clearly something far more than a kiddie fad. The likes of "Mothership" and "Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour" tremor with the sort of earthquake breakdowns and thrash riffs moshpits were made for, and where synthesisers fire up, they do so with a remarkable cohesiveness, adding a surprising, euphoric counterpoint to the barked metal aggression. As with Lostprophets, time will tell if Enter Shikari have the anthems to become part of the metal big leagues, but Take To The Skies is an impressive, energetic starting point. –-Louis Pattison

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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent start, lets see where it goes., 8 Aug 2007

By	daniel (london) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Take To The Skies (Audio CD)

this album is packed with energy, it drags you round & round until you get so dizzy you want to stop but the trance sytnh sound keeps you going.

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Damn Surprising, 5 July 2007

By	Jordan Ridgway "Jordi" (Warwickshire, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Take To The Skies (Audio CD)

I bought this album on a punt after listening to a brief clip. In the main, I generally like heavy guitar music but also I can feel at home with melodics through to classical and theatre too. The melodies on this album shocked me greatly, not your average thrash band nor are they a chamber orchestra.

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Stand Your Ground, This is Ancient Land!!, 7 July 2008

By	A. Peppiatt (Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Take To The Skies (Audio CD)

When Frankenstein wnet grave-robbing and slammed all of his corpses together in an unholy abination, we all thought - 'Wow, that really should never of happened...'
And we were right. It shouldn't. As it turned out, Frankenstien's Monster ripped open many of Frankenstein's family members. So fusion isn't always a good thing.
But with Enter Shikari (Shikari meaning 'hunter' in Japanese) fusion is a good thing. A very good thing, indeed. It should never work; on paper, it sounds... wrong. Rave, dance, metal, hardcore, rock. All slammed together in one genre. This amalgamation seems... unnatural. But it works. And so very well.
The interludes can get a little annoying if your iPod or MP3 is on shuffle; they lull you into a false sense of securtiy - you expect the song to come up that it eases you into, and then plays some God-awful Phil Collins. Not pretty. Aside from that, their is no fault in the album.
Every track is immense in its own way, from the unashamedly brash opening lyric of the album (when you hear it, you'll know what I mean) to the dying, album-wide refrain at the end, Take to the Skies is something that cannot be debated in its splendour.
Even the less raucous tracks (I.e; Today Won't Go Down in History and Adieu) have a spell-binding edge that speaks serenity and musical mastery. Mothership, Enter Shikari and Labyrinth stand out to me, purely for the raw energy and panache they convey. Keyboards are utilized well, as are synths, beats and a mix of harmonic and violent vocals.
Unfortunately, the God-of-all-musical knowledge that is NME magazine have referred to the most acknowleged single of the album Johnny Sniper (a by-word for condom, no less) as 'the worst song ever released by any band, ever'. This, oddly, is true, and yet because of that, that song has an ironic, unbeatable edge that is both cathcy and enigmatic.
Enter Shikari began as a Myspace hopeful, and as their talent permeated the walls of cyberspace, so we all came to know them. This album - despite some unlucky choices of interlude songs - is consistent, edgy, and a veritable recreation of Frankenstein's monster... albeit it doesn't go around ripping children limb from limb.

It get's you to do that.

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