Enter Shikari’s last record, 2017’s The Spark, was a moment of smart reinvention. It trimmed down the quartet’s heavier edges and folded their experimental electro-punk sound, origami-like, into a neater, poppier shape. The group’s sharp lyrical discharge began to take a softer, more personal form, too, as singer Rou Reynolds described panic attacks on songs like An Ode To Lost Jigsaw Pieces, while his struggles with anxiety deepened by the unstable, volatile backdrop of a nation that had just voted for Brexit. Even equipped with a retro-space-age aesthetic, it felt modern and forward thinking, and it won the Kerrang! Award for album of the year in 2018. By contrast, Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible is a far wilder, bumpier ride. While The Spark had a vacuum-packed orderli...
