The Mindsweep
| The Mindsweep | ||||
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| Studio album by Enter Shikari | ||||
| Released |
14 January 2015 (JPN) 16 January 2015 (AUS, NZL, DE) 19 January 2015 (EU) 20 January 2015 (USA) | |||
| Recorded | 2014 at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, UK | |||
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| Length | 44:42 | |||
| Label |
Ambush Reality (UK) Hopeless Records (USA) PIAS Recordings (EU) Liberator Recordings (AUS, NZL) Hostess Entertainment (JPN) | |||
| Producer | Enter Shikari, Dan Weller | |||
| Enter Shikari chronology | ||||
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| Singles from The Mindsweep | ||||
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The Mindsweep is the fourth studio album by Enter Shikari, released on 19 January 2015. It was recorded in 2014 with producer Dan Weller.[3]
History
On 26 June 2014 the band performed their new song "Anaesthetist" for the first time and uploaded a video on their Youtube Channel of them doing a practice run. Then they played it all of the dates that they played on Vans Warped Tour.
The album was announced on 8 October 2014,[4] along with a European and UK tour in support.
On 20 October 2014, "The Last Garrison" was played on Zane Lowe's Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1, and was the first single off of the album.[1] The song's official music video was uploaded to Hopeless Records' YouTube channel on 11 November.[5] Enter Shikari streamed the song "Never Let Go of the Microscope" on their YouTube channel on November 26,[6] then released the video for "Slipshod", an iTunes-only bonus track, on 15 December through the same channels.[7]
On 19 December Enter Shikari announced a Headlining North American tour in support of The Mindsweep with Stray From the Path, I the Mighty, Hundredth (band) (3/23-3/31) and A Lot Like Birds (4/01-4/28).
On 5 January 2015 "Anaesthetist" was released as the second single taken from the album.[2]
On 12 January, the full album was streamed online.[8] On, 19 January 2015 the album was officially released.
Production
When writing lyrics for the album, frontman Rou Reynolds researched the topics he addressed, such as climate change and the global financial crisis, to make sure he was making accurate statements.[9]
When choosing "which of the tracks they've been working on should make it on to [the album]", Enter Shikari found it hard to decide. Therefore, they made a graph where "the vertical axis charted the heaviness of the songs [while] the horizontal one [charted] their location on a scale ranging from 'accessible' to 'experimental'", and "where clusters indicated several songs covering the same territory, only one was allowed to make the cut", so that the album would feature something "from everywhere within [the band's] spectrum of sounds."[9]
Musical style
The Mindsweep has been described as a post-hardcore album which contains elements of many of genres including experimental rock, punk rock, dubstep, drum and bass, electronic rock, mathcore, alternative rock, alternative metal, british hip-hop, neoclassical, trip hop and many others.
Kerrang! Magazine called The Mindsweep the band's "most diverse album to date", contrasting the "punk thrash" of "There's a Price on Your Head" with "Dear Future Historians...", which they described as a "Radiohead-esque piano ballad". They also compared the style of "Anaesthetist" to that of the Prodigy.[9]
Critical reception
| Professional ratings | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 89/100[10] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Alternative Press[11] |  |
| Kerrang![12] | [9] |
| New Musical Express |  [13] |
The album received acclaim from music critics - on Metacritic, a review aggregator site, the album received a score of 89/100 (indicating "universal acclaim") based on 6 reviews. The album received maximum ratings from Alternative Press and Kerrang!.[10]
Track listing
All lyrics written by Roughton "Rou" Reynolds, all music composed by Enter Shikari.
| No. | Title | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Appeal & the Mindsweep I" | 4:50 | |
| 2. | "The One True Colour" | 3:53 | |
| 3. | "Anaesthetist" | 2:55 | |
| 4. | "The Last Garrison" | 3:42 | |
| 5. | "Never Let Go of the Microscope" | 4:02 | |
| 6. | "Myopia" | 4:10 | |
| 7. | "Torn Apart" | 3:54 | |
| 8. | "Interlude" | 0:56 | |
| 9. | "The Bank of England" | 3:23 | |
| 10. | "There's a Price on Your Head" | 2:49 | |
| 11. | "Dear Future Historians..." | 6:28 | |
| 12. | "The Appeal & the Mindsweep II" | 3:40 |
| iTunes bonus track | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 13. | "Slipshod" | 2:12 | ||||||||
| Japanese bonus tracks[14] | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 13. | "Slipshod" | 2:12 | ||||||||
| 14. | "The Paddington Frisk" | 1:16 | ||||||||
| 15. | "Rat Race" | 3:17 | ||||||||
| 16. | "Radiate" | 4:32 | ||||||||
- "Deluxe CD+DVD Edition" bonus DVD
| Live in St. Petersburg, Russia - Bootleg Series Volume 6 | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Enter Shikari" | |||||||||
| 2. | "The Paddington Frisk" | |||||||||
| 3. | "Sssnakepit" | |||||||||
| 4. | "Destabilise" | |||||||||
| 5. | "Radiate" | |||||||||
| 6. | "Gandhi Mate, Gandhi" | |||||||||
| 7. | "Sorry You're Not a Winner" | |||||||||
| 8. | "Arguing with Thermometers" | |||||||||
| 9. | "Juggernauts" | |||||||||
| 10. | "Constellations" | |||||||||
| Live at Reading Festival, UK 2014 | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 11. | "Solidarity" | |||||||||
| 12. | "Zzzonked" | |||||||||
| 13. | "2014 Intro" | |||||||||
| 14. | "Solidarity" | |||||||||
| 15. | "The Paddington Frisk" | |||||||||
| 16. | "Destabilise" | |||||||||
| 17. | "Radiate" | |||||||||
| 18. | "Sorry You're Not a Winner" | |||||||||
| 19. | "Gandhi Mate, Gandhi" | |||||||||
| 20. | "Anaesthetist" | |||||||||
| 21. | "Arguing with Thermometers" | |||||||||
| 22. | "Sssnakepit" | |||||||||
- "Deluxe LP+CD+DVD Edition" bonus DVD
| Live at Woodstock, Poland 2013 | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "System..." | |||||||||
| 2. | "...Meltdown" | |||||||||
| 3. | "Sorry, You're Not a Winner" | |||||||||
| 4. | "Destabilise" | |||||||||
| 5. | "Radiate" | |||||||||
| 6. | "Sssnakepit" | |||||||||
| 7. | "Gandhi Mate, Gandhi" | |||||||||
| 8. | "Juggernauts" | |||||||||
| 9. | "Constellations" | |||||||||
| 10. | "Quelle Surprise" | |||||||||
| 11. | "The Paddington Frisk" | |||||||||
| 12. | "Motherstep 2.0/Mothership" | |||||||||
| 13. | "Zzzonked" | |||||||||
| Live at Download Festival, UK 2013 | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 14. | "System..." | |||||||||
| 15. | "...Meltdown" | |||||||||
| 16. | "Sorry, You're Not a Winner" | |||||||||
| 17. | "Destabilise" | |||||||||
| 18. | "Radiate" | |||||||||
| 19. | "Sssnakepit" | |||||||||
| 20. | "Juggernauts" | |||||||||
| 21. | "Gandhi Mate, Gandhi" | |||||||||
| 22. | "The Paddington Frisk" | |||||||||
| 23. | "Motherstep 2.0/Mothership" | |||||||||
| 24. | "Arguing with Thermometers" | |||||||||
| 25. | "Zzzonked" | |||||||||
Personnel
- Enter Shikari
- Roughton "Rou" Reynolds – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keys, electronics, orchestral arrangements, lyrics
- Liam "Rory" Clewlow – guitar, vocals
- Chris Batten – bass, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "The One True Colour", "The Last Garrison", "Never Let Go of the Microscope" and "The Bank of England"
- Rob Rolfe – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Additional musicians
- Paul Sartin – violin on "The One True Colour", "Torn Apart", "There's a Price on Your Head", "Dear Future Historians" (+ Oboe Cor Anglais) and "The Appeal & the Mindsweep II"
- Beth Porter – cello on "The One True Colour", "Torn Apart", "There's a Price on Your Head", "Dear Future Historians" and "The Appeal & the Mindsweep II"
- Jackie Oates – violin on "The One True Colour", "Torn Apart", "There's a Price on Your Head", "Dear Future Historians" and "The Appeal & the Mindsweep II"
- Alex Harman, Ashley King (of St Albans), Bill Ransom, Chris Graham, Daniel Griffin, Fran Padormo, Ian Drayner, Jamie Littler, Louis Springfield, Nathan Killham, Nick 'Balls' Uperton, Sam Baker, Sam Newham, Simon Hofmeister, Vivien Vincze, William Tallis – gang vocals
- Alban Reynolds – trombone on "Torn Apart", "Interlude", "Dear Future Historians" and "The Appeal & the Mindsweep II"
- Production
- Dan Weller and Enter Shikari – production
- Tim Morris – studio engineer, additional production on "The Last Garrison"
- Jeremy Wheatley (for 365 Artists) – mixing
- Stuart Hawkes (at Metropolis Group, London) – mastering
- Luke Insect Studio – art direction
- Ian Johnsen (at Thirty Century Management) – management
Charts
| Chart (2015) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart[15] | 19 |
| Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[16] | 68 |
| Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[16] | 125 |
| Dutch Albums Chart[16] | 26 |
| Japan Albums Chart[17] | 142 |
| Swiss Albums Chart[16] | 66 |
| UK Albums Chart[18] | 6 |
| UK Indie Chart[19] | 1 |
| UK Rock Chart[20] | 2 |
| US Billboard 200[21] | 166 |
| US Billboard Independent Albums[21] | 12 |
| US Billboard Rock Albums[21] | 16 |
| US Billboard Hard Rock Albums[21] | 5 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Enter Shikari - "The Last Garrison" World Exclusive". Enter Shikari. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Anaesthesist". Enter Shikari. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ↑ Wright, Lisa (8 October 2014). "NME News Enter Shikari announce new album 'The Mindsweep'". NME. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ↑ Crane, Matt (8 October 2014). "Enter Shikari announce new album, 'The Mindsweep'". Alternative Press. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ↑ "Enter Shikari - The Last Garrison (Official Music Video)". YouTube. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Never Let Go of the Microscope". Entershikari.com. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- ↑ "Slipshod (Official Video)". Entershikari.com. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ↑ "Timeline Photo". Enter Shikari. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sutherland, Mark (17 January 2015). "Enter Shikari – Food for Thought". Kerrang! (issue 1551): pages 22–25 (page 24).
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Metacritic (April 16, 2013). "Critic Reviews for The Mindsweep". CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
- ↑ Alternative Press n°319, February 2015, pg. 89
- ↑ Kerrang!, 3 January 2015 n°1550, pg. 52
- ↑ Pearlman, Mischa (January 14, 2015). "NME". New Musical Express. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
- ↑ "ザ・マインドスウィープ - エンター・シカリ". Oricon. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ↑ "ARIA Australian Top 50 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "ザ・マインドスウィープ – エンター・シカリ" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ "2015-01-31 Top 40 Official Albums Chart UK Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ "2015-01-31 Top 40 Independent Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ "2015-01-31 Top 40 Rock & Metal Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 "Enter Shikari - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
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