The Mindsweep
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| Studio album by Enter Shikari | ||||
| Released | 14 January 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2014 | |||
| Studio | Chapel Studios (Lincolnshire, England, UK) | |||
| Genre | Electronicore,alternative rock,post-hardcore | |||
| Length | 44:42 | |||
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Ambush Reality (UK) Hopeless Records (U.S.) PIAS Recordings (EU) Liberator Recordings (AUS, NZL) Hostess Entertainment (JPN) |
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| Producer | Enter Shikari, Dan Weller | |||
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| Metacritic | 89/100 |
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The Mindsweep is the fourth studio album by English rock band Enter Shikari, released on 19 January 2015 through Ambush Reality, PIAS Recordings and Hopeless Records. It was recorded in 2014 with producer Dan Weller.
On 26 June 2014 the band performed their new song "Anaesthetist" for the first time and uploaded a video on their YouTube Channel of them doing a practice run. Then they played it all of the dates that they played on Vans Warped Tour.
The album was announced on 8 October 2014, along with a European and UK tour in support.
On 20 October 2014, "The Last Garrison" was played on Zane Lowe's Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1, and was the first single off of the album. The song's official music video was uploaded to Hopeless Records' YouTube channel on 11 November. Enter Shikari streamed the song "Never Let Go of the Microscope" on their YouTube channel on November 26, then released the video for "Slipshod", an iTunes-only bonus track, on 15 December through the same channels.
On 19 December Enter Shikari announced a Headlining North American tour in support of The Mindsweep with Stray From the Path, I the Mighty, Hundredth (3/23-3/31) and A Lot Like Birds (4/01-4/28).
To celebrate the release of the album, the band opened a pop up shop in Camden.
On 5 January 2015 "Anaesthetist" was released as the second single taken from the album. "Torn Apart" was released as a promotional single on 8 June 2015.
On 12 January 2015, the full album was streamed online.
When writing lyrics for the album, frontman Rou Reynolds researched the topics he addressed, such as climate change and the global financial crisis, to make sure he was making accurate statements.
When choosing "which of the tracks they've been working on should make it on to [the album]", Enter Shikari found it hard to decide. Therefore, they made a graph where "the vertical axis charted the heaviness of the songs [while] the horizontal one [charted] their location on a scale ranging from 'accessible' to 'experimental'", and "where clusters indicated several songs covering the same territory, only one was allowed to make the cut", so that the album would feature something "from everywhere within [the band's] spectrum of sounds."
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