Enter Shikari announce new album and residencies in five UK cities
completemusicupdate.comThree years on from their last album, ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’, Enter Shikari have announced that they will return with new LP ‘A Kiss For The Whole World’ this spring.The album, says frontman Rou Reynold, sees the band invigorated after he found himself unable to make music during the period of inactivity brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.“At the time it felt like we ourselves, as musicians, were experiencing the death of our band”, he says. “I just didn’t realise that the human and physical connection to other people were so central to how I write”.“Honestly, I thought I was fucked”, he goes on. “I’ve never felt so detached from my soul, my purpose, my fucking spirit.
I didn’t write music for almost two years. The longest I’d gone before that was two weeks”.“I was broken”, he adds. “It’s almost as if my brain had asked: ‘What is the point in music if it cannot be shared?
What is the point in writing music if it’s not to be experienced with others’ and then promptly switched itself off”.I guess it’s obvious that it eventually switched itself back on, because here we are with the new album set to arrive on 21 Apr.
Out right now is new single, ‘(Pls) Set Me On Fire’ – a song inspired by that lengthy period of writer’s block.“‘(Pls) Set Me On Fire’ grew out of that desperation”, he explains. “This song is a projectile vomit of positive energy.
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