The Mindsweep is Enter Shikari at their most inspirational and consistent and as a result, their best record yet.
There are great tracks in this album buried under a lot of experimentation. While this was one of their more commercially successful albums, it came at the price of losing a lot of the ferocity that made them so engaging. It's still a good album, but it lacks some components needed to make it great.
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Some of the band's most ambitious instrumentation is marred by a very weak songwriting effort for Enter Shikari's standards.
After playing it safe on their record before this one, I believe this is the direction they’re set out on taking their sound and it’s watered down so much already that you’d think they were disbanded for 20 years and tried to get the ol’ band back together again only to make a tone deaf nostalgia record that wasn’t even what the fans could have hoped for.