Album Rating: 3.5

This is their best up to date, but still could be better. Best example is The Last Garrison. Starts out amazing, wish there was more of these darker electronic tunes apart from the songs intros, follows up with equally amazing guitars hitting it hard and then floats over into lame doodlydoo sound that reminds me of an organ in the church. Same for the bridge where the dark tune returns, builds up, you wait for a BOOM BANG BOOM climax but you get nothing apart from the church folk chorus again which is just generic. Still these album has some nice moments and if they stay with the direction they chose, the next release should be even better.

Album Rating: 2.0

bradymoore95

Album Rating: 4.5

Haha they have no souls man. I don't think it's healthy to fuck them.

Album Rating: 1.5

you really enjoy beating off a dead horse, huh

Nice review. Nice album too. I’d give the album 4 out of 5, if ratings mean anything. I'm curious about something though. What exactly is a "Mature" album? I seemed to listen to a lot of albums for disgruntled teenagers, despite being 30, and no longer feeling like a teenager. This isn't a sarcastic criticism of the review. I know it points out that this band's sound has matured. I just genuinely don't know what an "Adult" album is supposed to sound like. Is it classical music, like Back or Mozart? I enjoy those (I have broad taste in music), but I've never felt that they were more mature than other music. Is it music with deep ideological themes, like politics? In which case this and some of Green Day's albums are very mature. Green Day have never struck me as being mature though. Can someone tell me the name of a grown up sounding album, so I can figure out just what they're like? Maturity seems to get mentioned a lot in reviews of albums I enjoy.

That ratings chart makes me lol

Album Rating: 2.0

adam19842004

Album Rating: 3.5

@Adam



Maturity for me is relative, and the way I've referenced it here is by looking back at their first EP's and comparing it to this new album. There's a messy energy in their early work, the vocals were a bit haphazard (though that does appeal to me, it's not necessarily a bad thing) and their sound wasn't polished (again, not a bad thing as such). For me at least, it means that the band has really taken stock of everything they've done before, they've learned from it and they've tightened their sound. Sort of a self awareness of progress as musicians. I guess it's a feeling you get from an album when you've followed a band for a long time and listened to them evolve. Not the easiest question to answer, by that's my take on it.

Album Rating: 3.0

great album

Album Rating: 3.5

Why didn't you give a 3.5 then?

Album Rating: 5.0

This album has really divides the community

Album is pretty sorta okayish, Common Dreads will remain the only Shikari album I can listen to all the way through (athough some bits are a chore) Like always the good songs are amazing and the bad/boring songs are abysmal. Still keen as bawls to see them live though

meh

Album Rating: 4.0

Well never let go of the microscope is just awesome

10/10 They can't do wrong in my eyes really.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnDCqvbVJs

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah somoeone was grabbing his man parts and he got quite irate



Im seeing them tomorrow, gonna have a blast. Dunno what theyll play off this though, probs just garrison and anaesthetist

Album Rating: 4.0

bank of England is clearly the best track on this

GET ME THA MANAGGGAAARRRRRR

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I'm torn between Myopia, There's a Price on Your Head, and The Last Garrison as the best track on here.