Enter Shikari - Common Dreads

Warner Records . 06/16/2009 . written by Oliver . genre: Emo/ Electro/ Techno/ Post-hardcore . format: CD

Enter Shikari from St. Albans, Hertfordshire are a english british-Post-Hardcore-Pop-Trance-Techno band. Their unique style is not only hard to describe - but it may has helped the band a lot to grow. ES is around since 2003 and all members had roots in other bands. Enter Shikari released their debut "Take This To The Skies" in 2007 trough their very own record label. Noone expected such a strong demand on the record. It caused so much attention that it reached #4 in the UK album chart and sold 28,000 copies in its first week. The record sold 250,000 copies worldwide and it gained gold-status in the UK. "Common Dreads" is the highly anticipated next work of the band. The record contains 15 really creative and imaginative tracks, that tend between trance-, core-, punk. I was not a fan of their old record, that I only gave 1 listen and afterwards I gave it away. Today I bite my ass, because I heard the record is really good. Therefore I keep this record at home and I will handle out to noone anymore. "Common Dreads" is not really compareable to any other bands. But I still remember a lot of shouts and screaming on the last record. "Common Dreads" does not contain a lot of screaming. Instead you find Roughton "Rou" Reynolds singing with his normal voice, and honestly that makes this record real good. I cannot really refer on any other bands but you may get an better image, when you mix up the fallowing bands: The Cure, I Set My Friends On Fire, The Kinison, The Secret Handshake, The Blackout, The Streets and Morrissey. "Common Dreads" is really an interesting release and I definately like these pretty hard sythesizer Techno/Trance parts, that go so well with hard edged guitars and massive drums. "Common Dreads" really makes me speechless and I am impressed how much the songs differ from another. Their track "Wall" is such a great song with a lot of effects in the back and a killer refrain. I really like the choir at the end of the song. Really impressive and overwhealming music! I cannot really find any bad tracks on the record, except "Zzzonked", which is a drum-and-bass asskick song, that is on one hand fun to listen to but pretty exhausting on the other hand. I guess kids will like it anyway. Check out this diversified record, which is just... breathtaking!

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Rank: (5 out of 5)

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