Just recently, Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds said that the band were discussing their future. Now, it seems they’ve come to a decision.
As of December 31st 2027, 14 months from now, the band will “fall dormant”. They say that this dormancy may end with either an eruption back into activity or extinction.
2027 will mark 20 years since the release of their debut album. In a statement, the band said, “For the past two decades, we’ve run amok in a cultural landscape that elevates easily-pigeongholed art, so being an ‘Enter Shikari’ hasn’t always been easy, professionally or personally, with obvious negative impact on one’s mental health when tasked with “coming up with the goods”. But we do this because we love it. And we are lucky enough to have built an audience who understand that the less-trodden path is sometimes the more interesting journey.”
They went on to say, “However, it gets to the point where the often difficult terrain of that path starts to frazzle and drain the humble traveller.
We are far from being the same kids who recorded that debut album, and as much as we love what we do, and still love being in each other’s company, as humans our priorities and capacities have changed.
Even before Rou’s recent illness, we’d had difficult conversations about what the next few years should hold. The pressures of the modern music industry, as well as our outside responsibilities and ambitions, had begun to urge change. To then see a friend in trouble made those conversations more pertinent.
While we don’t think we’re “splitting up”, we do not have a diary that extends beyond 2027.
We’re genuinely excited to make next year a celebration of what this band means to us. But after that it’ll be time to go away for a good while and see what being Rou, Rob, Rory and Chris, and not ‘Enter Shikari’, feels like.Maybe we’ll be like Fugazi and just get together to rehearse for fun, without feeling the need to make anyone else listen to it? All we really know is, after two decades of being a “professional” band, not having plans three years in advance is liberating.”
They also shared their upcoming plans, touring in November this year, the world and Europe in 2027 and recording some new music, so it’s far from over for now.
The full statement is on Instagram.
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