Enter Shikari release new song ‘Light Years’
ENTER SHIKARI have released a new single!
The new track, Lightyears, follows the recent release of Higher Ground and is the latest music from the St Albans electronicore outfit’s surprise-released album, Lose Your Self, which was released earlier this year via SO Recordings. The song arrives shortly after the band announced their indefinite hiatus, making it their second new track since revealing plans to step away from the project.
Speaking about the new single, frontman Rou Reynolds says, “last year I took it upon myself to digitalise all our old family camcorder footage. It was a surreal experience. Seeing the old family holidays, Christmases, school concerts, and birthdays; it was a cocktail of emotions. But what struck me most was the bizarre nature of watching back periods of my life that now seem so detached from reality now. Looking back on former versions of myself that no longer exist, people that have passed, places that have been knocked down – it was a form of nostalgia that veered on painful at times (or almost like ’vertigo’, as I say in verse two). Lightyears is not only me speaking to loved ones who are no longer with us, it’s also me speaking to my former self. Seeing the innocence and fragility of who you were as a child is often something recommended in psychotherapy in order to recalibrate how you treat yourself now. It can quieten what can often be a relentlessly critical and mean inner voice. This felt like a literal and stark version of that.”
Listen to Lightyears here:
The release arrives ahead of the band’s upcoming UK and European headline arena tour, which kicks off in Hamburg on November 3rd. Support on the run comes from HOLDING ABSENCE and THE CALLOUS DAOBOYS.
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