Rou Reynolds describes the early stages of creating a new album as “standing at the foot of a mountain”. You’re looking back at the peak that you just scaled beforehand, he says, wondering how the hell you’re going to manage to do it all over again.“It’s super-disconcerting and disorienting,” the Enter Shikari frontman gulps, explaining how he felt wrapping up the incredibly successful era for the band’s 2017 LP The Spark – which won a Kerrang! Award for Best Album the following year – while nervously looking ahead to album number six. Fortunately, motivation to start hiking came from a surprising source last year. While gathering a collection of essays and lyrics for his book Dear Future Historians, Rou found himself looking back over the St Albans titans’ prolific career for th...
