Enter Shikari have spoken to NME following the conclusion of their latest tour, to give an idea of what they will be aiming for with their new album.

“I’ve been writing for the last few months, so it’s an organisational period really of getting stuff together,” says frontman Rou Reynolds, “I can’t really not write or have down time. Even if I’m on holiday there’ll be something going on. We’ll be recording in January – February time, so we’ve got a few months to get everything prepared.”

The band have only recently finished touring their last work, their acclaimed fourth album The Mindsweep, and were recently confirmed to be headlining this year’s Slam Dunk Festival,in Birmingham, Leeds, and Hatfield at the end of May next year.

The band also released the surprise single ‘Hoodwinker’ around a month ago, but according to Reynolds, the track was “definitely an anomaly”, that was recorded at the same time as their single prior to that, ‘Redshift’. When asked about the potential sound that the band would aim for on their new album, Reynolds said they had been inspired by their recent arena tour to make their music more of a spectacle: “We’re edging towards the more sort of, not theatrical but a bigger. Something more grandiose than punk I suppose.”

Following the strong political themes of the lyrics to their previous albums, Reynolds also discussed the themes of his lyrics looking forward, suggesting that with some of the early writing he has that”Some of it’s, I guess not more personal, but I guess philosophical rather than frank direct politics. I’m sure there’ll be a wide range of subjects, but I always like to let the music do the dictating.”