Sunday 13 May 2012

A Flash flood of hammers to your face.

The more I listen to Enter Shikari's A Flash Flood of Colour, the more I appreciate the technical side of their music. Fusing all those genres together to make their own sound, piecing the sections together and stitching them in such a way as for maximum effect. The more I listen the more I love the placement of the the breaks, and bass sections. Wrap this all up with their aggressive (mostly) tone, and often political lyrics, the album has a general overtone of making the world a better place, a bigger society, picking out faults with the world and laying them bare. But it comes at you like a frickin' freight train, it's big, it's loud, and it's in your ears, you must listen, and hear. You will feel the music, you will react, it's not like you have an option. If the beat and power don't get you, I promise you a lyric in there some will get in your head. The first few tracks all have at least one line that you will think twice over. You may not like the sound, but you've got to admit they do what they do, very very well. And you should like the sound, sometimes as a species, the human race needs something to jump up and punch them between the eyes, just to wake us up. You did think this through, didn't you boys? ;-)