With the most unique album cover and the strangest song name stylisations I have ever seen comes British rock band Enter Shikari's sixth studio album Nothing is True & Everything is Possible. A roughly 45-minute long electronic rock symphony from start to end, Nothing is True & Everything is Possible is incredibly pleasant to listen to and flows effortlessly from one song to another.
Before we move on, I'd like to note that this is the first album I've ever seen to have its track listing on the front.
Now, as with all the other Enter Shikari albums, this album touches on topics, mostly bad, that are present in the world. One of the most notable is "{ The Dreamer's Hotel }" which touches on today's social media and the outrage rampant throughout with the basis that everyone is too busy fighting outside of the hotel to even notice the niceness, the pleasantness, the friendliness that could be had inside the hotel.
Musically, Nothing is True & Everything is Possible feels like a combination between The Mindsweep, Enter Shikari's fourth album, and The Spark, their fifth. The more combatant, hard hitting music merges with the softer, more electronic vibes, producing something that is truly unique. Another wonderful thing about this album is how deceiving it is. I say "deceiving", because you really can't tell when a track has moved onto the next. This most notably happens with "Marionettes (I. The Discovery of Strings)" and "Marionettes (II. The Ascent)". This definitely makes it feel like the album is shorter, but the music is so glorious and singable, listenable, whatever adjective you want to add, that you don't really care.
At the end of the day, Nothing is True & Everything is Possible is one of the best albums of 2020 so far, in my honest opinion. The classic Shikari style is noticeable throughout with all the electronic synths and electric guitars you could ever imagine. This is an album I 100% recommend you listen to.
Favourite Tracks: "THE GREAT UNKNOWN", "{ The Dreamer's Hotel }", "modern living...", "T.I.N.A", "thē kĭñg"
Rating: 10 / 10