Take to the Skies

Take to the Skies is the debut studio album by Enter Shikari. On March 25, 2007, it reached #4 in the Official UK Album Chart selling 28,000 copies in its first week. It has been released as a standard CD, a limited CD + DVD edition and a double LP version (2 x 180grm 12" vinyl) with an embossed gate fold sleeve. The 12" vinyl edition is limited to 1000 copies and also contains the standard CD. The Album reached worldwide sales of 250,000 copies and was certified Gold in the UK, after selling over 100,000 copies.

The album contains many songs that were featured on demos, singles and EPs released in the years prior to their debut. "Sorry You're Not A Winner" was first on the band's second EP Sorry You're Not A Winner EP in 2003. It was later re-recorded in 2006 along with "OK, Time For Plan B" (which was a previously released demo in 2005) for the bands second single Sorry You're Not a Winner/OK Time for Plan B. "Jonny Sniper" and "Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour..." were both on the band's third EP Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour (EP) in 2004; they were completely re-recorded for the album. A demo version of "Mothership" was previously released for the bands first single in 2006. Also "Enter Shikari", "Labyrinth", and "Return To Energiser" were released as demos from 2005-06.

The album produced two singles for "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour" and "Jonny Sniper".

After the release of the album in Europe, the band spent a long period of time finding a distributor, which they would need to release the album in North America. Finally they signed to Tiny Evil Records and the album was released on October 30.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Reception
4 Singles
5 Chart performance
6 Trivia
7 References

Track listing

Retail version

All songs written and composed by Enter Shikari.

Take to the Skies
No.	Title	Length
1.	"[Untitled] "Stand Your Ground; This Is Ancient Land" on digital versions."	1:08
2.	"Enter Shikari"	2:52
3.	"Mothership"	4:30
4.	"Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour..."	4:32
5.	"[Untitled]"	1:01
6.	"Labyrinth"	3:51
7.	"No Sssweat"	3:16
8.	"Today Won’t Go Down in History"	3:34
9.	"[Untitled] "Reprise 1" on digital versions."	1:28
10.	"Return to Energiser"	4:35
11.	"[Untitled]"	0:18
12.	"Sorry, You're Not a Winner"	3:52
13.	"[Untitled]"	0:35
14.	"Jonny Sniper"	4:01
15.	"Adieu"	5:40
16.	"OK Time for Plan B"	4:55
17.	"[Untitled] "Reprise 2" on digital versions."	2:44
Total length:		52:43

Tracks 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and 17 are untitled on the actual track listing. However, the untitled tracks have been given names on the digital versions and other retailer descriptions. Track 1 is universally titled "Stand Your Ground; This Is Ancient Land". In most cases tracks 5,9,11,13 and 17 are all titled "Interlude", sometimes being numbered.^[1] However, on the iTunes track listing 9 and 17 are both titled Reprise One and Two, respectively.^[2] Also, Track 17 is sometimes titled "Closing".

'Live At The Astoria' DVD

Filmed live at the London Astoria, November 4, 2006.

"Labyrinth"
"The Feast"
"Sorry You're Not a Winner"

Plus backstage footage and photo slide show

The entire Astoria gig was filmed and originally planned to be released in its entirety, however due to poor sound quality on many of the tracks, only three of the tracks made it to release.

'US iTunes Version'

Take to the Skies (US iTunes Version)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stand Your Ground; This Is Ancient Land / Enter Shikari"	4:05
2.	"Mothership"	4:30
3.	"Anything Can Happen In the Next Half Hour / Interlude One"	5:41
4.	"Labyrinth"	3:56
5.	"No Sssweat"	3:18
6.	"Today Won't Go Down In History"	3:37
7.	"Reprise One"	1:31
8.	"Return to Energizer"	4:37
9.	"Sorry You're Not a Winner" (Remix)	4:12
10.	"Jonny Sniper / Intro"	4:34
11.	"Adieu"	5:40
12.	"OK, Time for Plan B"	5:04
13.	"Reprise Two"	2:42
14.	"Kicking Back On the Surface of Your Cheek" (Digital Exclusive)	3:46
Total length:		56:29

^[3]

Personnel

Band

Roughton "Rou" Reynolds - Lead vocals, additional guitars, lap steel guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, samples, electronics, lyrics
Chris Batten - Bass, vocals
Liam "Rory" Clewlow - Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
Rob Rolfe - Drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Enter Shikari - Gang vocals
Joel De'ath - Gang vocals
Ben Shute - Gang vocals
Ian Shortshaft - Gang vocals
Arlen Keyte - Gang vocals
Timbo Baggins - Gang vocals
Mark Thomas - Gang vocals
David Burgess - Gang vocals
Connor Masarich - Gang vocals

Production

Enter Shikari - Production
Gavin Paul Maxwell - Technician
John Mitchell - Recording
Ben Humphreys - Recording
Martin Giles - Mastering
Peter Hill - Photography
Keaton Henson - Illustration, design

Live At The Astoria DVD personnel

Lawrence Hardy - Director, editor, camera operator
Paul McLoone - Producer
Manifesto Films - Producer
Gavin Paul Maxwell - Technician
Andrew Carey - Camera operator
Hugo Levien - Camera operator
Tatsu Ozaki - Camera operator
Jerome McCann - Sound
James Kemp - Sound mixing
Jenifer Wright - Picture slideshow photography
Stephen Condell - Picture slideshow photography

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	^[4]
Allmusic	^[5]
The Guardian	^[6]
Kerrang!
Metal Hammer
NME	^[7]
Pitchfork Media	(6.7/10.0) ^[8]
Yahoo! Music	^[9]
StandUp

Singles

Information
Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour... Released: 5 March 2007 Chart positions: #27 (UK Singles Chart), #1 (UK Rock Chart)
Jonny Sniper Released: 18 June 2007 Chart positions: #75 (UK Singles Chart)

Chart performance

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Irish Albums Chart	26
UK Albums Chart	4

Trivia

"Kicking Back on the Surface of Your Cheek" is included on the Kerrang! Awards 2007 The Nominees CD, and the single of Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour 7" Single
"No Sssweat" is included on the Kerrang! The Best of 2007 CD

References

Enter Shikari

Rou Reynolds · Rory Clewlow · Chris Batten · Rob Rolfe ·

Albums	Take to the Skies · Common Dreads · A Flash Flood of Colour

EPs	Commit No Nuisance (as Hybryd) · Nodding Acquaintance (2003) · Sorry You're Not a Winner (2003) · Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour (2004, remastered 2005)

Compilations	The Zone · Tribalism

Live albums	Live from Planet Earth

Singles	"Mothership" · "Sorry You're Not a Winner/OK Time for Plan B" · "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour" · "Jonny Sniper" · "We Can Breathe in Space, They Just Don't Want Us to Escape" · "Juggernauts" · "No Sleep Tonight" · "Destabilise" · "Quelle Surprise" · "Sssnakepit" · "Gandhi Mate, Gandhi" · "Arguing With Thermometers"

Related articles	Discography · A Flash Flood of Colour World Tour