A Kiss for the Whole World

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Enter Shikari announces the release of its highly anticipated new album, A Kiss For The Whole World via SO Recordings / Ambush Reality. As the calendar now marks three years since the last release of an Enter Shikari album - their UK No. 2 album, Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible - it is worth revisiting the last question the band asked fans: “Is this a new beginning? / Or are we close to the end?” They could not have known how close to the end things would eventually feel as the events of the early 20s obscured the light in the furnace of their live juggernaut and their connection with their fans. “At the time, it felt as though we ourselves, as musicians, were living the death of our band,” says singer and keyboardist Rou Reynolds. Unsurprisingly, the key to reigniting the band came in the form of a live show as they headlined Download Festival Pilot in front of 10,000 fans. Where not a single new word had flowed from Reynolds’ pen over the previous two years, an awareness emerged that would define the band’s seventh album: “I just didn’t know that the human, physical connection with others was so at the heart of the way I write,” he says. Enter Shikari is not just four people - it’s hundreds of thousands.