The Spark
by Enter Shikari
  • Record Label: PIAS
  • Release Date: Sep 22, 2017
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 32
  3. Negative: 1 out of 32
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  1. Suppermenot
    Nov 22, 2017
    5
    Overall an ok album but i think the band can do better. Emotions conveyed are a bit lacking. I does not open my hearth up like i want it to do. If you are a fan of Shikari then you will like it but if you never listened before skip this one.

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Oct 26, 2017
    70
    The record is rivenwith angst, strife and remonstration. Which makes it sound like a knotty proposition. But actually it’s quite the opposite.
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  2. AllMusic
    Oct 2, 2017
    70
    There's a lot to love here, especially on some of the more idiosyncratic offerings like "Airfield" and "Shinrin-yoku," but listeners expecting to bloody themselves in the electronicore, stadium-screamo assault of past outings might want to take a pass.
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  3. Q Magazine
    Sep 27, 2017
    60
    It swaps the ramped-up volume of the past for a jittery urgency that mirrors 21st-century urban Britain. [Nov 2017, p.108]
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