The Last Garrison

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"The Last Garrison"
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Single by Enter Shikari
from the album The Mindsweep
Released20 October 2014
Recorded2014
Genre
Length3:42
Label Ambush Reality, Hopeless Records, PIAS Recordings
Songwriter(s) Chris Batten, Rou Reynolds, Rob Rolfe, Rory Clewlow
Producer(s) Enter Shikari, Dan Weller
Enter Shikari singles chronology
"Rat Race"
(2013)
"The Last Garrison"
(2014)
"Anaesthetist"
(2015)

"The Last Garrison" is the first single taken from the fourth studio album by British rock band Enter Shikari, The Mindsweep . The song was first played on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 20 October 2014, [2] while the single was released on iTunes and Spotify on the same day. [2]

Contents

Music video

The music video, directed by Oleg Rooz, was released on the band's official YouTube page on 11 November 2014. [3]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Rou Reynolds; all music is composed by Enter Shikari

No.TitleLength
1."The Last Garrison"3:42

Band members

Chart performance

Chart (2014)Peak
position
UK Rock Chart [4] 9
UK Indie Chart [5] 21

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