Enter Shikari are working on new music

Enter Shikari are starting their year strong and already working on new music.

Speaking on the latest episode of Kerrang! In Conversation, powered by KILLSTAR, frontman Rou Reynolds revealed that the band will be spending the first few months of 2025 recording – fitting it in around a pending tour of Japan and Australia.

Asked whether this would be for a new album or a series of singles, Rou said that “it’s just songs at the moment”.

“We’re still not sure how we’re gonna do it,” he continued. “It’s tempting to not even really do a record or to hold a record back and just release songs for a while. Having achieved the UK Number One on the last album [A Kiss For The Whole World], it’s a bit like, I just don’t want all the rigmarole of that again. We’ve got that. We can tick that box now. Let’s just move on and go back to releasing music in kind of a fun, interesting way.”

What form the music is released in remains to be seen, but Rou confirmed that we will hear it this year, although admitted he is “behind schedule” because “I did that stupid thing of agreeing to a schedule”.

Following the success of A Kiss For The Whole World and 2020’s Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible (which reached Number Two in the UK charts), it feels like the band have hit a new wave of bigger, bolder songwriting and that both records are two sides of the same brightly-coloured coin. When questioned if the new music will follow a similar path, Rou explained that it’s more about the process than the outcome at this stage.

“It’s still too early to say. We’re working on a lot of tracks at the moment in varying degrees of completion. I think, more than anything, I’m trying to concentrate on not streamlining the process, but cutting the anxiety out of the process. I suppose it’s like a classic thing of when you achieve some form of success, however you define success, loss aversion kicks in, and you’re a bit like, ‘Oh, this is even more important now?’

“I remember reading Bertrand Russell and he always talked about the surest sign of a mental breakdown is thinking that your work is important. He worded it much better than that, I’m paraphrasing, but that’s become a very real thing for me. And it sort of makes the process not the flowing thrill that it is.

“A Kiss For The Whole World was very much like that because there was all this excitement about, ‘Oh, we’re a band again!’ after COVID and everything. So there was this burst of energy like a tsunami. And it just got rid of all the anxiety because it was just too powerful. But now we don’t have that. All the anxieties are there. And so the process is quite fraught and quite tense.

“That’s what I’m concentrating on at the moment. The music’s coming and it’s fun and we’re really excited about it. But the process is like, I don’t know, it’s kind of jagged and spiky and not enjoyable to the amount that it should be.”

Listen to the full episode of Kerrang! In Conversation with Rou now wherever you get your podcasts.

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