Album Rating: 3.5
oh yeah the nothing is true era show i saw was better, but it was relieving to see they havent completely lost it
and yeah those are the worst for me lol glad they did not play either when i saw them. i didnt get much off this tho, just the singles and the title track
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Album Rating: 3.5
same, i also still rly fw leap into the lightning but this is honestly such a disappointment from them
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Album Rating: 3.5
i think this recent live cycle was by far the most impressive from a production perspective.
It hurts for instance has some really special lighting work. Checkout this at 1:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD7bwVlfdWo
I think I prefer them when they did a run at a few smaller venues early last year. Energy of that gig was just top notch
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Album Rating: 3.5
oh those are just the songs i saw live i actually kinda dont dig the title track lol. but yeah leap into the lightning is dope, albeit needs a better chorus like nearly everything sans pls set me on fire. i like dead wood too. no interest in anything else here really, so thats like, half the album rip
hope they get the magic back but the new song was horrible so probably not
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
They also played Giant Pacific Octopus, I was really happy about that one :3
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I also don't think the collab songs with their support bands are that indicative tbh. The Fever 333 song is quite dull
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This album stinks
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
... of greatness ❤️
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Album Rating: 4.5
Ya great album
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Album Rating: 3.5
havent hit this in a while. feel like if you ep'd this and turned it into:
1. pls set me on fire
2. it hurts
3. leap into the lightning
4. bloodshot
5. dead wood
i'd 4 this, but it's just such a boneless full length
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Album Rating: 3.5
ngl as down as i was on this when it came out ive come around on it a bit. definitely their worst but i did it a little dirty i think
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Yea, I don't really see why this wasn't taken well here. It's not peak Shikari, but I think it slaps
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Album Rating: 3.5
i think it's that it basically throws every aspect of this band front and center all of the time rather than leaning into something new the way they'd been doing their whole discog. coming off an album as sprawling and diverse as nothing is true, it was just too jarring of whiplash for me
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Album Rating: 3.0
Love the first two tracks on this
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Album Rating: 3.0
If this was just the first 4 tracks and Giant Octopus as an EP, it’d be so much better - sadly do not like the middle third of this
Also speaking to the big vs small ES shows, I def prefer the small shows. Rou’s reaction to playing the fucking Space Ballroom in Hamden, CT in 2022 which has max capacity of like 125 followed by him raging in the pit with us was so sick. It must be such a ahock going from palying EU festivals to playing dinky rooms in the US
Edit: here’s a p good video of back to back nights on the tour, one in Hamden and one at a bigger spot in Brooklyn: https://youtu.be/v6bGZA5zbQI?si=quBTo5RAaQDS1nX3
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Album Rating: 3.5
its a very messy and unfocused album imo.
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Album Rating: 3.5
pls set me on fire -> it hurts -> leap into the lightning -> bloodshot -> dead wood is the ep tracklist id hit this with. closer is good and not good at the same time like a lot of this is
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Album Rating: 3.0
Some of the best shows I've ever been to were seeing Shikari at Soundstage in Baltimore with like 200 people. The sets were incredible themselves but yeah, Rou and Rory would come out into the crowd and they had a circle pit around Rory while he ripped in the center of the floor. Plus I got to meet the guys afterward and chat with them for a good while. This was 2016 and 2017.
I do think it'd be sick to see them at a fully filled giant venue like they play in the UK just because the crowd energy with the style of music would be the shit.
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Album Rating: 3.0
As a brit, I can confirm the atmosphere is absolutely insane at their shows. It's never quite topped 2010-2015 era Shikari though, God I miss those days! If you wasn't in the pit, the crowd would be constantly moving or tipping, not for the faint hearted lol.
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah ive seen them live maybe 5 times? lost track.
they were sick every single time
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