A Flash Flood of Colour
by Enter Shikari
  • Record Label: Hopeless
  • Release Date: Jan 17, 2012
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. AllMusic
    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.
  2. The Fly (UK)
    Feb 10, 2012
    80
    Disenchantment should always be this spellbinding.
  3. DIY Magazine
    Feb 10, 2012
    50
    The positives are overshadowed by petulant observations to politics which is hard to take seriously when dire lyrics like "Yabba dabba do one, Son."
  5. Absolute Punk (Staff reviews)
    Jan 23, 2012
    85
    A Flash Flood of Colour is daring, thought provoking, and utterly unpredictable, making it the first bold record of 2012 and Enter Shikari's defining moment.
  6. musicOMH.com
    Jan 20, 2012
    50
    There are occasional moments of brilliance to be found of Flash Flood, often within the carefully crafted melodies of Enter Shikari's choruses, but all too often their lyrical angles and their almost pathological need to force genres together make for an uneven album.
  7. The Quietus
    Jan 17, 2012
    70
    In practice and the long term of most, they're hysterically fun, but perhaps easier to admire in the abstract than really adore, unless you're a 17-year-old girl or bored at a festival.
  8. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Jan 17, 2012
    50
    Their festival-friendly rap-rave-metal goes "the-generation-that-are-going-to-change-the-world" political.
  9. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jan 12, 2012
    80
    They respond to the challenge [to engage politically] in explosive style to deliver something like their defining statement.
  10. Drowned In Sound
    Jan 12, 2012
    50
    A sterile, witless turn here.
  11. BBC Music
    Jan 12, 2012
    70
    The group's melding together of dance music, metal riffs, punk energy and vocals that sound English rather than Californian make A Flash Flood of Colour not only a compelling effort, but an appropriately named one to boot.
  12. Kerrang!
    Feb 1, 2012
    80
    This 11-song set is a good deal of fun to listen to. [14 Jan 2012, p.50]
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  13. Q Magazine
    Jan 18, 2012
    80
    Angry, innovative and often ahead of the curve. [Feb 2012, p.111]
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  14. Alternative Press
    Jan 13, 2012
    90
    Enter Shikari prove that they have something substantial to say and a creative way of saying it.
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User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 64 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 64
  3. Negative: 4 out of 64
  1. LewisDanny
    Apr 3, 2017
    1
    Cringe-worthy left-wing politicking over dull techno-dance-core drivel that, while once borderline intersting, is quickly getting old. ThisCringe-worthy left-wing politicking over dull techno-dance-core drivel that, while once borderline intersting, is quickly getting old. This shouldn't have even made it off campus.… Full Review »
  2. Screenager
    Apr 16, 2013
    4
    Dull uninspired political electronicore garbage. Every song has some underlying problem at the heart of its message like corruption or globalDull 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.… Full Review »
  3. readered
    Jan 19, 2012
    10
    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.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… Full Review »
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