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With squadrons of trance arpeggios and almost Europop vocals flying over the top of the opening riffs, Enter Shikari are clearly trying to do something different here, and I can't fault them for that... think 'Evanescinobi vs Faithless Ninja' and you wouldn't be too far off the mark.
'Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour' is a veritable journey of different metal textures, and the dance influence takes it to a place that this St Albans-spawned band’s contemporaries aren't likely to explore. But the issue I have is that the song isn't actually that good. I think the classic Achilles Heel of also-ran metal bands is their tendency to focus on headbang-ability and stylistic identity and neglect the actual tune they are whistling. It may well rock like a bitch live, and moshers may well be bouncing off the ceiling like rubber balls in a Bravia ad, but the song beneath this carefully constructed battle armour is a bit of a Linkin Park b-side, with a vocal line I'm sure I've heard hundred times before.
Enter Shikari have developed an enviable following all off their own back, but unless selling out The Astoria is to be the pinnacle of their career, they need to discover the wild world of writing killer hooks.
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5/10
is extremely generous
mothership
was released too early. now's the time for that or labyrinth not this song
Superb review
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Trying to do something different/more epic than normal = good.
Actual song = quite average
another record
that i seriously think has got to be a joke. like plan b - its so obviously crap that i cant believe right minded people with ears are championing it.
god help us.
pretty much true
they should really release some of their better songs.
I...
...like it. Although my ears do get confused.
Can't
name a bad song from these, the gimicky sound is probably going to be short lived, much like klaxons etc... but they work so well live, and i can't begrudge their success cos they do their job on stage.
What annoys me about this song
isn't it's general crapness, but the fact it's got such a good title. The makers of Captain Scarlet should sue in order to reclaim the title for a decent song
ha
I agree, people like the IDEA of Enter Shikari more than the reality of what they actually sound like. OK Time For Plan B is a good example, call it trance-core if you like but in reality its nu-metal dirge with a bit of an arpeggiator behind it
I hate
the idea and the reality of this band. Trance and eeemmooooo. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Bad.
Just bad. Bad band, bad song. Bad sound. 100% not cool. Some of their earlier stuff had a germ of a good idea in it once you scraped the layered screamo off but now this is just pathetic.


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