‘Lose Your Self’
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ENTER SHIKARI – LOSE YOUR SELF – ALBUM REVIEW
After they announced an intimate live date in Manchester, whispers were in the wind that a new album was on the way from St. Albans finest Enter Shikari. Well, fans didn’t have to wait long!
Come midnight the band surprise dropped their eighth studio album, ‘Lose Your Self’, but given the state of the world right now it should surprise nobody that the record takes aim and holds no punches.
Shikari have always been a band who are at their best with the bit between their teeth and there isn’t exactly a lack of inspiration at present. Whilst being willing and able to eloquently lyricise their thoughts on the world, what the band also do well is ensure that a glimmer of hope remains that together we can heal the pain.
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These tracks all conceptualise from a point of despair and desperation and whilst this manifests in anger it also offers the hopeful perspective in such as way that stops you from heading into full on depression (as understandable as that would be watching the news).
The ever-uplifting sonic exploration that only Enter Shikari can create also helps with that. This is after all a band never lacking in musical ambition and ‘Lose Your Self’ feels like their most ambitious project yet – both in terms of the content and the unusual type of release.
With no singles to steal your attention, you’ll need to indulge the album as designed and that has to be the biggest plus of the surprise drop.
The album flows superbly and builds to a captivating crescendo in the shape of the album closing ‘Spaceship Earth’ trilogy. There are no real dips in quality and it’s great to know that even at this stage of their career the band can still surprise us!
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