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Track List
01) [untitled]
02) Enter Shikari
03) Mothership
04) Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour...
05) [untitled]
06) Labyrinth
07) No Sssweat
08) Today Won't Go Down in History
09) [untitled]
10) Return to Energiser
11) [untitled]
12) Sorry, You're Not a Winner
13) [untitled]
14) Jonny Sniper
15) Adieu
16) OK, Time for Plan B
17) [untitled]
01) [untitled]
02) Enter Shikari
03) Mothership
04) Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour...
05) [untitled]
06) Labyrinth
07) No Sssweat
08) Today Won't Go Down in History
09) [untitled]
10) Return to Energiser
11) [untitled]
12) Sorry, You're Not a Winner
13) [untitled]
14) Jonny Sniper
15) Adieu
16) OK, Time for Plan B
17) [untitled]
1:07
2:52
4:29
4:31
1:00
3:51
3:15
3:34
1:27
4:34
0:18
3:51
0:35
4:01
5:40
4:54
2:44
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First Released
2007
Hardcore
Angry
Rock/Pop
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Fast
Album
250,000 copies
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Take to the Skies is the début studio album by Enter Shikari. On March 25, 2007, it reached #4 in the Official UK Album Chart selling 28,000 copies in its first week. It has been released as a standard CD, a limited CD + DVD edition and a double LP version (2 x 180grm 12" vinyl) with an embossed gate fold sleeve.
The 12" vinyl edition was limited to 1000 copies and also contained the standard CD. The Album reached worldwide sales of 250,000 copies and was certified Gold in the UK, after selling over 100,000 copies. The album produced two singles for "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour" and "Jonny Sniper".
The album contains many songs that were featured on demos, singles and EPs released in the years prior to their debut. "Sorry You're Not A Winner" was first on the band's second EP Sorry You're Not A Winner EP in 2003. It was later re-recorded in 2006 along with "OK, Time For Plan B" (which was a previously released demo in 2005) for the band's second single Sorry You're Not a Winner/OK Time for Plan B. "Jonny Sniper" and "Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour..." were both on the band's third EP Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour (EP) in 2004; they were completely re-recorded for the album. A demo version of "Mothership" was previously released for the band's first single in 2006. Also "Enter Shikari", "Labyrinth", and "Return To Energiser" were released as demos from 2005-06. After the release of the album in Europe, the band spent a long period of time finding a distributor, which they would need to release the album in North America. Finally they signed to Tiny Evil Records and the album was released on October 30.
On the albums track listing, tracks 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and 17 are untitled on the actual track listing. However, the untitled tracks have been given names on the digital versions and other retailer descriptions. Track 1 is universally titled "Stand Your Ground; This Is Ancient Land". In most cases tracks 5,9,11,13 and 17 are all titled "Interlude", sometimes being numbered. However, on the iTunes track listing 9 and 17 are both titled Reprise One and Two, respectively. Also, Track 17 is sometimes titled "Closing".
User Album Review
One part hardcore, one part rock, a big splash of trance, and a twist of drum 'n' bass.
James Young 2007
Listen to this album on your ipod and you probably won't get it for a long time. Put it in on your stereo – loud – and it begins to come clear. But you probably need to picture the festival scene...
You are standing in a field with thousands of others; let’s say all one hundred and twenty thousand of their myspace friends. So this is a rave, but what sort of music is it; Trancecore, Emocore, Nu-Emotional Hardcore Rave, Electro-screamo? Whatever. The truth is that unfettered by the dictats of a major label's marketing department these four kids from Hertfordshire have been free to wander around lifting from several seemingly clashing scenes. What they have created may not be unique but has not been seen in the mainstream before. One part hardcore, one part rock, a big splash of trance, and a twist of drum 'n' bass. It is, as they say, a heady mix, and somehow it might! just! work!
At its best it is exhilarating, as in the three part opening that goes off like free trance party in the wilds of Gloucestershire and culminates in the euphoric “Mothership”. Immediately afterwards the tension is ratcheted up by the insistent drive of “Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour”. Somewhere in the middle “No Sssweat” sidetracks down a fresh lane marked skacore by means of cheeky lyrics about eating your hand. After that charming detour “Return To Energizer” brings back the hardcore. The trademark growling screams and heart lifting gang choruses segueing bafflingly seamlessly into beautifully placed trance synths. It is a perfect display of the band's art.
Sometimes it all misfires – the electronics on “Labyrinth” simply sound too eighties, and they foolhardily plunder that decade again for the guitars in “Johnny Sniper”. However, what takes this album a few notches above the average hardcore is it’s an ear for melody. This is best displayed the end-of-the-party “Adieu” which displays the harmonic prowess to suggest these boys could rival Keane if it all went pear shaped.
You sense they get this too because the swiftly trash that notion with a couple of final 'core flourishes - the splendid final showdown of “OK, Time For Plan B” and a final reprise telling us once more that they will be still be here next time – ‘standing like statues’. All power to that. And bring more drum and bass next time.
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Take to the Skies is the début studio album by Enter Shikari. On March 25, 2007, it reached #4 in the Official UK Album Chart selling 28,000 copies in its first week. It has been released as a standard CD, a limited CD + DVD edition and a double LP version (2 x 180grm 12" vinyl) with an embossed gate fold sleeve.
The 12" vinyl edition was limited to 1000 copies and also contained the standard CD. The Album reached worldwide sales of 250,000 copies and was certified Gold in the UK, after selling over 100,000 copies. The album produced two singles for "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour" and "Jonny Sniper".
The album contains many songs that were featured on demos, singles and EPs released in the years prior to their debut. "Sorry You're Not A Winner" was first on the band's second EP Sorry You're Not A Winner EP in 2003. It was later re-recorded in 2006 along with "OK, Time For Plan B" (which was a previously released demo in 2005) for the band's second single Sorry You're Not a Winner/OK Time for Plan B. "Jonny Sniper" and "Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour..." were both on the band's third EP Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour (EP) in 2004; they were completely re-recorded for the album. A demo version of "Mothership" was previously released for the band's first single in 2006. Also "Enter Shikari", "Labyrinth", and "Return To Energiser" were released as demos from 2005-06. After the release of the album in Europe, the band spent a long period of time finding a distributor, which they would need to release the album in North America. Finally they signed to Tiny Evil Records and the album was released on October 30.
On the albums track listing, tracks 1, 5, 9, 11, 13 and 17 are untitled on the actual track listing. However, the untitled tracks have been given names on the digital versions and other retailer descriptions. Track 1 is universally titled "Stand Your Ground; This Is Ancient Land". In most cases tracks 5,9,11,13 and 17 are all titled "Interlude", sometimes being numbered. However, on the iTunes track listing 9 and 17 are both titled Reprise One and Two, respectively. Also, Track 17 is sometimes titled "Closing".
User Album Review
One part hardcore, one part rock, a big splash of trance, and a twist of drum 'n' bass.
James Young 2007
Listen to this album on your ipod and you probably won't get it for a long time. Put it in on your stereo – loud – and it begins to come clear. But you probably need to picture the festival scene...
You are standing in a field with thousands of others; let’s say all one hundred and twenty thousand of their myspace friends. So this is a rave, but what sort of music is it; Trancecore, Emocore, Nu-Emotional Hardcore Rave, Electro-screamo? Whatever. The truth is that unfettered by the dictats of a major label's marketing department these four kids from Hertfordshire have been free to wander around lifting from several seemingly clashing scenes. What they have created may not be unique but has not been seen in the mainstream before. One part hardcore, one part rock, a big splash of trance, and a twist of drum 'n' bass. It is, as they say, a heady mix, and somehow it might! just! work!
At its best it is exhilarating, as in the three part opening that goes off like free trance party in the wilds of Gloucestershire and culminates in the euphoric “Mothership”. Immediately afterwards the tension is ratcheted up by the insistent drive of “Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour”. Somewhere in the middle “No Sssweat” sidetracks down a fresh lane marked skacore by means of cheeky lyrics about eating your hand. After that charming detour “Return To Energizer” brings back the hardcore. The trademark growling screams and heart lifting gang choruses segueing bafflingly seamlessly into beautifully placed trance synths. It is a perfect display of the band's art.
Sometimes it all misfires – the electronics on “Labyrinth” simply sound too eighties, and they foolhardily plunder that decade again for the guitars in “Johnny Sniper”. However, what takes this album a few notches above the average hardcore is it’s an ear for melody. This is best displayed the end-of-the-party “Adieu” which displays the harmonic prowess to suggest these boys could rival Keane if it all went pear shaped.
You sense they get this too because the swiftly trash that notion with a couple of final 'core flourishes - the splendid final showdown of “OK, Time For Plan B” and a final reprise telling us once more that they will be still be here next time – ‘standing like statues’. All power to that. And bring more drum and bass next time.
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