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Digital Spy gave the album 3/5 calling it 'hit and miss'. Similarly, music magazines Kerrang! and Metal Hammer gave very positive reviews, Kerrang! rating the album 5/5. Ultimate-Guitar rated the album with an overall rating of 9.3/10.
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Reception Professional ratingsĬommon Dreads has polarised critics. Rou has also said he believes that leaders are unnecessary. They are outspoken against the Afghanistan War and Iraq War, Israeli treatment of Palestinians, mainstream media and supportive of GreenPeace, Stop The War Coalition, Unite Against Fascism and the Zeitgeist movement.
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The band expresses further political ideas in the song "Juggernauts" where the closing line is "The idea of community will be something displayed in a museum", when coupled with the anti-capitalist and hopeless tone of previous lyrics, can be interpreted as a Pro-Collectivist stance. The song "Fanfare for the Conscious Man" contains lyrical connotations to the injustice of the various wars the government were engaging in whilst Enter Shikari were writing the album, the line, "Our gracious queen should grasp her crown, and take a good fucking swing at Blair and Brown" confirms the anti-war views of this song.
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The song "No Sleep Tonight" speaks about the ecological situation of today.
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In Common Dreads, the band's lyrical subjects concern socio-political topics, like in "Step Up", a song that critiques free world trade. The band formerly wrote lyrics concerning various different subjects and made frequent use of metaphors. There is a drastic lyrical change in the new album. The album has a distinct stylistic change to Take to the Skies, most notably, more use of clean vocals and a mixture of more electonic music genres, including Drum and Bass, Electro house and Dubstep, as well as the trance and electronic hardcore which was explored on their debut album. This was recorded at Norwich on the first leg of their European tour in 2009, The video can be seen here. The next official single was Zzzonked, with the official video being released on Ambush Reality/Enter Shikari's official Youtube Channel on the 7th Oct 2009. It was announced via the Enter Shikari website that the second single from the album would be "No Sleep Tonight", to be released on the 17th of August 2009.Įnter Shikari's song Wall premièred on Zane Lowe's show on 29 September 2009, but is not scheduled for release as an official single. It entered the album charts at number 16 selling 15,000 copies in its first week. It released officially on the 15th of June 2009 through Ambush Reality. On Monday 8 June 2009, the album was made available to stream to the public from the NME website for free. "Rou" Reynolds told Kerrang! that the song was inspired by the book Tescopoly by Andrew Simms. The new single, Juggernauts, was premièred on Thursday the 15th of April on Radio 1's Zane Lowe show, and a video was released viewable on their website. The album has a political motive behind it and references to the current economic climate is a topic that is covered. Several new songs were played live in the tours and festivals leading up to the new album. The new album was recorded in Arreton Manor situated on the Isle of Wight. A video has now been released for the single "Juggernauts". This track was to become the first track released, made available as a free download, linked from the band's MySpace page. In late September, the band posted a video on their Youtube channel of "Antwerpen" filmed live in "The 'Low". Enter Shikari began work on their second album towards the end of 2008 and started demoing songs in "The 'Low" (episodes released on YouTube by Enter Shikari showing their progress.)