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Enter Shikari: Borderline, London

Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 17 January 2012

IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE a less appealing musical template than sixth-form politics and bludgeoning metal riffs welded to cack-handed Skrillex-style electronic beats. It is therefore to Enter Shikari's credit that they manage to assemble such base elements with enough charm and elan to prevent you harbouring homicidal thoughts towards them.

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