A Kiss for the Whole World

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Enter Shikari announce the release of their highly-anticipated new album, A Kiss For The Whole World via SO Recordings / Ambush Reality. With the calendar now signalling three years since Enter Shikari’s last album proper – their UK #2 album Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible – it’s worth revisiting the last question the band put to fans back then: “Is this a new beginning? / Or are we close to the end?” Little did they know how close to the end things would eventually feel as the events of the early ‘20s occluded the light in the furnace of their live juggernaut and connection to their fans. “I just remember walking around with this dull ache in my chest, and not knowing what it was,” recalls frontman & keyboardist Rou Reynolds. “It just wouldn't go away. I believe it was the slow, drawn-out death of our band.” Unsurprisingly, the ignition key for the band came in the form of a live show as they headlined the Download Festival Pilot in front of 10,000 fans. Where not a single new word had flowed from Reynolds’ pen in the preceding two years, an epiphany was born that would define the band’s seventh album: “I just didn’t realise that the human & physical connection to other people was so vital to how I write,” he says. Enter Shikari isn’t just four people - it’s hundreds of thousands.