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Enter Shikari: The Mindsweep

I stumbled upon this band just after this album came out and they had such a unique sound. I went through their back catalog but this album was what stuck with me the most.

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To be strung up on a leafless tree

Where everything dies and nothing grows

Hanging like moulding fruit

One last dance whilst you decompose

On come the Paddington spectacles

A black plague over all I admired

(A vegetable breakfast) A hearty choke

Seems like the whole world conspired

But there stood a man

He was cut up, distraught, and cold

But amongst the wreckage of his rib cage

His heart still thudded as he said

I regard myself as a soldier

Though a soldier of peace

I know the value of discipline and truth

I must ask you to believe me when I say…

No matter if it all backfires

No matter if it all goes wrong

We just gotta get ourselves together

We've sat still for far too long

Now this ain't over yet

As far as I can see

We've only just begun

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2/22/24: The Mindsweep by Enter Shikari

This album cracks me up, honestly. It's alternative rock with a little bit of electronic rock and hardcore punk mixed in. Most of this album really fails to capture me; none of the songs are very interesting or catchy all the way through, and while the style has some twists and turns it's like doing so in a plain; you're in grass, take a sharp turn right, walk for a mile, and you're still in grass. Turn 180 degrees, walk two miles, and, you guessed it, still grass. In short, this album is grass all the way 'round.

It does have its moments, though. The part of 'Myopia' with the change in the guitar sound and the chanting is nice. 'Torn Apart' is overall a relatively okay song with a good chorus and a surprisingly striking contrast with its instrumental continuation/counterpart 'interlude', which may have been my favorite part of the whole record. The horns really add some character and some storytelling. I will also admit that the drop in 'Dear Future Historians…' does go pretty hard, it's probably the most interesting riff in the album.

The part of this album that really made it much more tolerable were the lyrics. They're very much extremely explicit anti-establishment punk stuff, which I respect immensely, but for whatever it per reason when this British man sings them I just cannot take them seriously. They're just so cheesy, and I don't know why. My favorite line is probably "the invisible hand no longer guides, it chokes", from 'The Bank of England'. Honestly, go off Enter Shikari, I can feel capitalism quaking in its boots. The comedy I find in this album is not helped by stuff like the stock airhorn sound effect in 'There's A Price On Your Head', or the goofy speech that opens the album. Parody is always closer than you think, and this album is not afraid.

That's all! See you tomorrow for! Something!

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