AltPress Exclusive: Enter Shikari detail new album, touring plans
Dang-near unclassifiable British techno/punk/trance/screamo outfit Enter Shikari have filled us in on the specifics about their immediate future. The group will release their upcoming full-length, Common Dreads, on June 16 through Ambush Reality in partnership with DGC/Interscope. The album–produced by Andy Gray (U2, Korn) is the follow-up to the band’s 2007 release, Take To The Skies. A press release on behalf of the band says that the album will touch upon hot-button topics like economic recession, state control and accelerated capitalism. Frontman Rou Reynolds says:
"Politics are unavoidable. We just can’t write sappy music. Our first album was cryptic and metaphor-heavy, this one is more direct. Since we gained popularity, we realized, whether we like it or not, we have the ability to influence people–and with that is a responsibility to speak our minds.”
The complete tracklisting for Common Dreads:
1) Common Dreads
2) Solidarity
3) Step Up
4) Juggernauts
5) Wall
6) Zzzonked
7) Havoc A
8) No Sleep Tonight
9) Gap In The Fence
10) Havoc B
11) Antwerpen
12) The Jester
13) Halcyon
14) Hectic
15) Fanfare For The Conscious Man
16) All Eyes On The Saint (* iTunes exclusive track)
17) Enter Shikari-Live version (*Bonus track available only via digital merch store link)
The band’s summer touring plans are as follows:
Fri 6/5 Nurburgring, GER – Rock AM Ring Festival
Sat 6/6 Nurnberg, GER – Rock IM Park Festival
Sun 6/28 Glastonbury, ENG – Glastonbury Festival
Headlining U.S. Tour:
Thu 7/2 New York, NY – Blender Theatre at Gramercy
Fri 7/3 Poughkeepsie, NY – The Loft
Sun 7/5 Providence, RI – Club Hell
Mon 7/6 Albany, NY – Valentines
Tue 7/7 S. Hackensack, NJ – School of Rock
Wed 7/8 Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock
U.S. tour with August Burns Red, Blessthefall, I Wrestled A Bear Once:
Fri 7/10 Towson, MD – Recher Theatre
Sat 7/11 Philadelphia, PA – Starlight Ballroom
Sun 7/12 Buffalo, NY – The Town Ballroom
Mon 7/13 Akron, OH – Musica
Tue 7/14 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
Wed 7/15 Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Thu 7/16 Madison, WI – The Loft
Sat 7/18 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
Tue 7/21 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
Wed 7/22 Los Angeles, CA – Key Club
Thu 7/23 San Diego, CA – Soma
Fri 7/24 Pomona, CA – The Glass House
Sat 7/25 Pomona, CA – The Glass House
Sun 7/26 Scottsdale, AZ – Venue of Scottsdale
Mon 7/27 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
Wed 7/29 Dallas, TX – The Max
Festivals:
Fri 8/7 Osaka, JAPAN – Summersonic
Sun 8/9 Tokyo, JAPAN – Summersonic
Fri 8/14 Saarland, Germany – Rocko Del Schlako Fest
Sat 8/15 Horb Am Neckar, Germany – Mini Rock Festival
Wed 8/19 Nyírbátor, Hungary – Azfeszt Festival
Thur 8/20 St. Pölten, Austria – Frequency Festival
Fri 8/21 Trutnov, Czech Republic – Trutnov Festival
Sat 8/22 Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop
Sun 8/23 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
Fri 8/28 Leeds, England – Leeds Festival
Sat 8/29 Reading, England – Reading Festival
