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Review: Southampton's own bones brigade, Band Of Skulls, return with an epic fifth studio album, delivering a sweet selection of alternative pop rock versatility. The album opens with a salvo of heavier, more motley rock sounds before hitting its catchy title track halfway through the A-side. "Not The Kind Of Nothing" and "Cool Your Battles" turns out the A-side from anything too soft, with the band serving up a cooing, more contemplative and ethereal number in "Sound of You" that opens the second disc. The slightest of country and folk inspirations waver in and out of "We're Alive", with the emotional wall of sound that is "Speed Of Light" a true highlight, alongside the jamming post-punk hit: "Gold". Like James Murphy dressed up as Nikki Sixx.

Review: Southampton's own bones brigade, Band Of Skulls, return with an epic fifth studio album, delivering a sweet selection of alternative pop rock versatility. The album opens with a salvo of heavier, more motley rock sounds before hitting its catchy title track halfway through the A-side. "Not The Kind Of Nothing" and "Cool Your Battles" turns out the A-side from anything too soft, with the band serving up a cooing, more contemplative and ethereal number in "Sound of You" that opens the second disc. The slightest of country and folk inspirations waver in and out of "We're Alive", with the emotional wall of sound that is "Speed Of Light" a true highlight, alongside the jamming post-punk hit: "Gold". Like James Murphy dressed up as Nikki Sixx.

Review: Southampton's own bones brigade, Band Of Skulls, return with an epic fifth studio album, delivering a sweet selection of alternative pop rock versatility. The album opens with a salvo of heavier, more motley rock sounds before hitting its catchy title track halfway through the A-side. "Not The Kind Of Nothing" and "Cool Your Battles" turns out the A-side from anything too soft, with the band serving up a cooing, more contemplative and ethereal number in "Sound of You" that opens the second disc. The slightest of country and folk inspirations waver in and out of "We're Alive", with the emotional wall of sound that is "Speed Of Light" a true highlight, alongside the jamming post-punk hit: "Gold". Like James Murphy dressed up as Nikki Sixx.

Review: Southampton's own bones brigade, Band Of Skulls, return with an epic fifth studio album, delivering a sweet selection of alternative pop rock versatility. The album opens with a salvo of heavier, more motley rock sounds before hitting its catchy title track halfway through the A-side. "Not The Kind Of Nothing" and "Cool Your Battles" turns out the A-side from anything too soft, with the band serving up a cooing, more contemplative and ethereal number in "Sound of You" that opens the second disc. The slightest of country and folk inspirations waver in and out of "We're Alive", with the emotional wall of sound that is "Speed Of Light" a true highlight, alongside the jamming post-punk hit: "Gold". Like James Murphy dressed up as Nikki Sixx.

Review: Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible & Moratorium: Broadcasts From The Interruption is undoubtedly one of the longest album titles we've been faced with in some time. Which is fitting, because the 29-strong track list makes the return of Enter Shikari nothing short of a proper epic. Having said that, it's maybe not so much of a grand 'return' when you've only been away for one year, with this the follow up to 2020's Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible.

If that sounds like not a lot of time to get this many tunes together fear not. Moratorium, to use the in-crowd abbreviation, is actually the acoustic response to the previous record. Comprising home, studio and intimate live recordings laid down in 2020 and the first part of '21, it's yet more proof that Shikari are high impact even when you strip down the volume.

Review: Enter Shikari will always be considered one of the great crossover electronic-punk-metal outfits, marrying elements of rave with mosh pit mentalities, smashing genres to pieces under the ferocity and weight of cacophonous noises and frenetic tempos. You'll be delighted to know that 'Nothing Is True' represents the band at a creative high point, and with just as much muscular might to back up those ideas. 'Modern Living' is a shouty, lunging, head-nodding and fist-bumping pop-hop-grunge workout. 'The Great Unknown' is a desperate call to arms, and anxious and angsty explosion of sound. 'Crossing The Rubicon' gives more than a soft nod to the likes of M83. 'Waltzing Off The Face Of The Earth II' is a sublime slice of ambience. What more do you need to know?

Review: Enter Shikari will always be considered one of the great crossover electronic-punk-metal outfits, marrying elements of rave with mosh pit mentalities, smashing genres to pieces under the ferocity and weight of cacophonous noises and frenetic tempos. You'll be delighted to know that 'Nothing Is True' represents the band at a creative high point, and with just as much muscular might to back up those ideas. 'Modern Living' is a shouty, lunging, head-nodding and fist-bumping pop-hop-grunge workout. 'The Great Unknown' is a desperate call to arms, and anxious and angsty explosion of sound. 'Crossing The Rubicon' gives more than a soft nod to the likes of M83. 'Waltzing Off The Face Of The Earth II' is a sublime slice of ambience. What more do you need to know?