Enter Shikari Chat To I Like Music

Rob: It was awesome. With Take To The Skies it was very much; set up, get your clean sound, record the track, bosh, there's an album. With Andy it was about the whole album sounding sonically individual and each song having its own personality and sound. We tried lots of different things, from a drummers perspective that included using different microphones or different drum skins.

ILM: What about the core Enter Shikari process of writing songs? Did that change for Common Dreads?

Rob: The songs have always grown quite naturally. Roughton will get a riff or a melody, either electronically or on his guitar. He will come with an idea or a rough skeleton of a song. We'll all work on it to fill in the gaps, round off the edges and get it sounding like an actual song. Then we'll play it live a few times before we go into the studio. Still, we do so much work in the studio. Once a song is down in front of you so many more ideas just pour out. So much more grows from it. The songs are changing from the very first time we put them together to the very last seconds before they get mastered.
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