It’s here! Enter Shikari have shared their first new music in a good long while: The Void Stares Back, featuring WARGASM.

Frontman Rou Reynolds happily announces: “It is with elation, and more than a little nervousness, that we release this: our first track after over two years of dormancy.

“It is a roisterous journey made all the more so with the addition of our friends WARGASM. Thematically, the piece is about the forward march of social progress, and how, often, those with a more conventional archaic outlook on sexuality, gender, social design, economics etc, see those with differing ideas like bewildering, depraved creatures from another dimension.”

“Shikari were a big part of our growing up, so it was an absolute honour to be asked to collaborate with such an incredible and well-spoken band,” WARGASM add. “They stand for the right things – we’re a little more pessimistic. It was fun playing the darker devil’s advocate to Rou’s light… where we’re going, you won’t need eyes to see…”

Enter Shikari: “We have to lose the idea of the self and become much more focused on wholeness and oneness”

Enter Shikari have dropped their eighth album, Lose Your Self, from outta nowhere. Ahead of its grand unveiling, we met up with mastermind Rou Reynolds for an impassioned and wide-ranging conversation about the fuel that drives the record, and how it all stems from the same power-hungry source. Strap in, there’s a lot to unravel…