{"id":385,"date":"2007-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/reviews\/track-review-enter-shikari-johnny-sniper\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:52:13","slug":"track-review-enter-shikari-johnny-sniper","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/?reviews=track-review-enter-shikari-johnny-sniper","title":{"rendered":"Enter Shikari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God only knows how we missed this one.&nbsp;<strong>Enter Shikari<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; the flagship band for the British alt.rock industry have released the ridiculously catchy&nbsp;<strong>Johnny Sniper<\/strong>&nbsp;as a single and we love it. Yes, yes we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following from the top 5 placing of their debut album&nbsp;<strong>Take To The Skies<\/strong>&nbsp;Enter Shikari have seemingly taken the UK over with a headline date at the Brixton Academy imminent. Not bad for a band who turned down major labels and made all of their chart singles ineligible. Not bad at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Johnny Sniper<\/strong>&nbsp;is without a doubt the most radio friendly and \u201clightweight\u201d track from&nbsp;<strong>Take to The Skies<\/strong>&nbsp;but does that make it bad? Not at all. In fact it makes for some good listening. Why? Because it\u2019s clearly an unadulterated pop track; just with a bit of screaming and the added bonus of some heavy guitar riffage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, it\u2019s conceivable that the band will refer to this track as drivel. It will, guaranteed make internet message board cynics refer to them as sell outs, and it will, I repeat WILL remain on the play lists of the major radio stations for awhile\u2026 and subsequently it will earn Enter Shikari a load of money. But you know what? Keep churning out \u201cdrivel\u201d like this, and you won\u2019t get any complaints from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catch the video for Johnny Sniper&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071112171714\/mms:\/\/pias01.wizzz.net\/streaming\/entershikari-jonnysniper.wmv\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413,"template":"","meta":{"type":"SINGLE","artist":"Enter Shikari","releasetitle":"","releasedate":"","label":"","format":"","single1":"","single1vid":"","single2":"","single2vid":"","single3":"","single3vid":"","preorder":"","spotify":"","apple":"","eventdate":"","supports":"","city":"","venue":"","img1":"","img2":"","img3":""},"class_list":["post-385","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/reviews"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/reviews"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heaviest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}