A Flash Flood of Colour - Enter Shikari
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 27 Ratings

  • Summary: The third album for the British band was produced by Dan Weller.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Jan 13, 2012
    90
    Enter Shikari prove that they have something substantial to say and a creative way of saying it.
  2. Feb 1, 2012
    80
    This 11-song set is a good deal of fun to listen to. [14 Jan 2012, p.50]
  3. Feb 10, 2012
    80
    Disenchantment should always be this spellbinding.
  4. Feb 17, 2012
    60
    For the most part, A Flash Flood of Colour revels in a unique, organized chaos, and while it's a demanding and often exhausting listen, it's a call to arms which the flagging U.K. guitar band scene could do with more of.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. This is there best album to date. I first got into Enter Shikari before Take to the Skies was released, when their demos were floating around. 'Take to the Skies' reproduced all of their songs and they were, in my opinion, worse because of it. Common Dreads was an average album with a couple of stand out tracks. A flash flood of colour however is a different kettle of fish. Very easy to listen to from begininning to end, some of the tracks are quite simply stunning. Definitely buy it...now Expand
  2. 10
    Every song is amazing, a lot of bass, electronics and metal finally together! Very lyrical and meaningful album. Sound is as fat as never. Highly recommended! Expand
  3. I'd like to start off by saying that I've been a fan since Take to the Skies as this seems to matter to a lot of people with Enter Shikari now saying that they're bad because they've branched out their genre. Whilst they're often keen to suggest that they are beyond the boundaries of genre I'd call this album Metal-step. Regardless. I think it is incredible. Not a bad song on it, my particular favourite is System Meltdown, which have to be listened to back to back. Similar lyrically in terms of the politics of them to Common Dreads it still makes for an excellent album with a couple of cheeky DnB remixes of ssssssnakepit chucked in for good measure. Expand
  4. Dull uninspired political electronicore garbage. Every song has some underlying problem at the heart of its message like corruption or global warming, there's also some boring electronica in the background behind Rou Reynolds shouting and ranting. The final song Constellations is the stand-out track with an impressive vocal delivery and less of the dull electronics and "breakdowns" prevalent on the album. If this sort of thing suits you, then buy it it is a good album, just not my type of album. Expand

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