Enter Shikari announce new album ‘The Mindsweep’

It’s been almost three years since they released an album but now Enter Shikari are back and they’re offering up news of their fourth effort.

Following up 2012’s ‘A Flash Flood Of Colour’, their latest full-length ‘The Mindsweep’ is due for release early next year, on 19th January through Ambush Reality / Play It Again Sam. Recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire with Dan Weller, the album is set to be twelve tracks in length and was mixed by Jeremy Wheatley (who has previously worked with The Vaccines, Dizzee Rascal and Sugababes) earlier this summer.

Speaking of the new album, frontman Rou Reynolds has said: “We pushed ourselves vocally with some of the rawest angriest vocals we’ve ever done as well as some of the most dulcet and delicate. It’s even more diverse than normal as we’ve built more confidence and fearlessness to widen our influences further. Melody and aggression will always be an important side of what we do, but with this album there was also a concerted effort to concentrate on texture too. Alongside the core of our guitar, bass, drums, electronics set-up, there’s so much new instrumentation and orchestration. Writing for and recording woodwind, brass and strings was so rewarding and really felt like it brought a new dimension to the music.”

The tracklisting for ‘The Mindsweep’ is as follows.

1. The Appeal & The Mindsweep I
2. The One True Colour
3. Anaesthetist
4. The Last Garrison
5. Never Let Go Of The Microscope
6. Myopia
7. Torn Apart
8. interlude
9. The Bank Of England
10. There’s A Price On Your Head
11. Dear Future Historians…
12. The Appeal & The Mindsweep II

The band have also announced plans for a massive UK and European tour set to take place in 2015, culminating in a huge show at London’s Roundhouse. Their full touring plans are below.

JANUARY 2015
09 Brussels, BE - Ab Box
10 Amsterdam, NE - Melkweg
11 Hereford, DE - X
14 Nuremberg, DE - Hirsch
15 Berlin, DE - Kesselhaus

FEBRUARY 2015
02 Paris, FR - La Cigale
03 Solothurn, CH - Kofmeal
04 Lyon, FR - Transbordeur
05 Milan, IT - Magazzini Generali
07 Leipzig, DE - Hellraiser
08 Vienna, AUT - Arenan
09 Munich, DE - Muffathalle
10 Wuerzburg, DE - Posthalle
11 Cologne, DE - Live Music Hall
13 Hamburg, DE - Docks
14 Frankfurt, De - Batschkapp
16 Portsmouth, UK- Pyramids
17 Cardiff, UK - Yplas
18 Wolverhampton, UK - Civic
20 Manchester, UK - Academy
21 Glasgow, UK - Barrowland
22 Middlesbrough, UK - Town Hall
24 Cambridge, UK - Corn Exchange
25 Norwich, UK - UEA
26 London, UK - Roundhouse