STOKED

Finally

God I hope it's better than Flash Flood

AFFOC was their best though :[

This should be good.

I didn't dig the emphasis on electronics. I'll listen to ROUT for that. But I did start listening to ES before Take to the Skies came out, so I prefer their post-hardcore rooted sound and loved their first two albums.

ahh i hated their debut when i first heard it at like 11 years old. Heard Radiate on the radio one day; loved it so i checked out AFFOC and loved that even more. I like how adventurous they're being electronically, but you're right in the sense that the electronics are taking over a little too much.

Needs more songs like Gandhi

Please please please don't suck.

Sweeeeeet! Norwich date too

Anaesthetis is awesome.

I loved Flash Flood so I hope it's similar to that.

MAKES ME AN ANAESTHETIST

The cover art is kind of shit but still so pumped for this, AT LAST

STOKED

I have not found an Enter Shikari track I have liked yet. Doubt this will be any different

cover art looks like prog deathcore

If this is even just a little better than A Flash Flood of Color then it will probably be an Album of the Year contender for me. Enter Shikari is awesome.

I hope they bring the trance back
I want hear songs like Mothership

Then listen to Mothership

you misunderstood me, I want to hear new songs that sound like that

I never understood, why they abandoned their original style... it was so good

single when

Come on guys... time to take to the skies again.

should be interesting atleast

Well the last thing you'd want is for them to do the same stuff again and again. I quite liked the electronic direction they took on AFFOC, particularly the dnb influences. They're more varied than most of the other "electronicore" bands; I just hope they don't become too dubsteppy

Awful album art

Agreed choccy. It's kind of pointless to hope for something they already did a long time ago and that they haven't done since. You like the old stuff buy an old album. You like the new stuff buy it. You like the band a lot buy it all. Common Dreads was an ugly growing process at times but that's what it took to get from Take to the Skies to AFFoC. It's not fair to a band to ask them to devolve when they probably couldn't anyway. Not naturally.

Exactly. CD had some great songs, but overall it felt way too sporadic and lacked cohesion. The only thing i hope they do for this new LP is change up the songwriting a bit more. They were pretty bold on their debut and CD, but AFFOC took a more straight forward approach. More complex structures like gandhi pls

Stoked, I've never been a big fan of theirs but I like what I've heard.

idk, it's kinda pointless to listen to ES for the complexity, when you've got Mozart

I think ES will jump on the big room bandwagon because they always take influence from trendy electronic music (their first album was full of trance, later (as trance became irrelevant) they integrated dubstep, and modern dnb) now they should take influence from Garrix, who's a true master of electro-house music.

"master" c'mon man. Martin Garrix is the least innovative producer i know.

Also, ES are much better than big room. big room is meant for clubs and have very danceable beats, but ES' electronics aren't like that at all. They're a bit more aggressive, which i like a lot but it will never be big room.

I mean, do you really expect them to start throwing in martin garrix style drops?

maybe, I think it would sound awesome and make their music much better.

I think their electronics were pretty good when they knew their limits but AFFOC had terrible electronics, I
mean http://youtu.be/UKNxalWxlos?t=2m39s just lol, it sounds like a 15 years old boy trying to be Skrillex

also Garrix was very unique before every artist on Spinnin' started trying to sound like him (same story as
TDWP and rise records lol)

I think Garrix's music takes much better skills than what ES does, I could easily produce ES-esque
electronics (and I'm a noob at cubase)

I never liked pack of thieves. Your point about TTTS is interesting though, because on the making of AFFOC, they stated that the electronics for pack of thieves was written during TTTS era, they just didn't know
what to do with it. So it's hardly something that they wrote only recently.

No way man. Seriously. Garrix is so damn formulaic and it's so damn generic too. What's so interesting about it? so many artists are doing that style, like knife party etc. he really isn't anything special.

You're probably saying it's more difficult to programme Garrix's stuff cos that includes the whole damn track, whereas Shikari on programme their synths. In the end, the only thing Garrix has to offer is
predictable big house that is extremely sonically bland

knife party is progressive house / dubstep, not big room. Everything in their music sounds different, the
bass, the drums, the synths. Sure there are similarities like between Deez Nuts and Botch (both are
hardcore) but once you get into the genre you'll realize they're nothing alike.

I think Garrix's sound is just more refined, the synths, the bassdrums, they have so much weight and such
a strong punch at the same time, his songs are dynamically perfect. I really like the way he's toying
around with the low and the high tones, creating something really groovy and enjoyable. His melodies are
very simple and catchy (just listen to animals, tremor or wizard)
and he's only 18, he has a very, very long time to become even better

as for Enter Shikari, I can't see how their electronics take skills.. I'm not saying they aren't a good
band, I just wouldn't compare them (as producers) to someone who isn't even an adult and rules the big
room house (easily one of the most popular electronic musical genre atm) scene

Fair enough, but calling him a "master" is really taking it a bit too far. He hasn't even released that many tracks.

You can't really compare Shikari's work to producer's though, because it's completely different. Shikari's electronics aren't supposed to sound like the producer's work, it's supposed to go hand in hand with everything else that's going on, so it compensates for that. You're better off comparing Rout to Garrix or something. Everything you said about what makes garrix good doesn't apply to Shikari, purely because they're really not trying to to do that.

only Deviant can end this argument

There's an argument happening? I think they were just talking about their opinions in a civilized manner. Wow. Societies' pussification has obviously moved to Sputnik.

Happy birthday me. Fuck yes.

I mean the genre autism