Enter Shikari, A Flash Flood Of Colour (Ambush Reality) ** (From York Press)
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Enter Shikari, A Flash Flood Of Colour (Ambush Reality) **
12:13pm Friday 27th January 2012 in CD reviews
WHEN The Beatles said you can’t start a revolution with a record, maybe they wanted to steer their successors away from even attempting it.
Electronicore outfit Enter Shikari are a classic example of the sort of hash which can result from not listening to the Fab Four’s sage advice. If you’re going to bring politics into the equation, you need more of a plan than “yell stuff and turn the amps up”, and A Flash Flood… is pretty much devoid of the sort of observation, wit and deftness needed to carry off an anti-establishment record.
Only Stalemate, Warm Smiles and the Streets-esque angst of Constellations rise above the racket, the rest being a mess of clashing chords and laddish rhetoric. It’s the sort of flag which will only be rallied to by anybody who wants a rebellion, but doesn’t want to put too much thought into how they’re going to manage it.
