That progressive, ambitious, interstellar sound of Enter Shikari comes to a grand crescendo in the trifecta of movements that close the album, harnessing Rou\u2019s love of classical music, under the umbrella of Spaceship Earth. A term coined by British economist Barbara Ward in her 1966 book of the same name, it\u2019s a thought experiment that positions the planet as a spaceship with finite resources, forcing the crew (humanity) to think differently about consumption and production.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou start to think about things in a kind of rational way,\u201d Rou picks up. “Like, how much fuel do we have in this spaceship? Where are we heading? What are the protocols? Is everyone chipping in to keep this spaceship a safe place? There\u2019s the vacuum of space out there, we need to be prudent and frugal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a beautiful thing to explore creatively. From Spaceship Earth (I. Avec Abandon) I\u2019m acting as this character who is welcoming people aboard and has his foot on the pedal to the metal, this joyride through space, which is what it feels like we\u2019re doing at the moment. And then as we go on to other movements, we put forward different perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n
But what is the conclusion of the experiment? Rou admits that the last verse of Spaceship Earth (III. Maestoso) \u201cis probably the most trite I\u2019ve allowed our lyrics to be\u201d, as it closes with the yearning, \u2018Hold on, hold on, a change is going to come\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n
Change, of course, can come in many forms. So what specifically does Rou want to see?<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything. Everything. Absolutely everything,\u201d he says bluntly. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to think of things that don\u2019t need to be updated or need complete overhauls at the moment. You speak to any person in any industry or walk of life and they\u2019ll gladly sit you down and speak about all the problems in their area, but as I\u2019ve always said, usually you follow those problems to their core and there lies the problem \u2013 which is the structure. The idea that we must exploit each other and the natural world, and that is the natural order of things, when it is absolutely false.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if the message is a trite one, however, at least the prospect of change offers hope. And sometimes hope is all we have.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to hold onto it. If you don\u2019t have hope you\u2019re not going to act. It\u2019s the structural foundation that every kind of progress builds from.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That progressive, ambitious, interstellar sound of Enter Shikari comes to a grand crescendo in the trifecta of movements…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}