[6] On 26 June 2014, the band performed their new song "Anaesthetist" for the first time and uploaded a video on their YouTube Channel of them doing a practice run.

[7] Reynolds said the album was as diverse as A Flash Flood of Colour in the sense that every track is different, "cover[ing] all corners of the musical spectrum.

On the song, frontman Rou Reynolds stated "We seem to have reached a stage of such capitalistic fervour, that we believe it acceptable to punish people for ill health.

[13] The video was filmed in a studio on what Reynolds called an "anti-stage": "basically a sunken stage below the level of the rest of the room.

[15] The video is a satirical cartoonised skit featuring the members of the band dining at a restaurant and being dissatisfied with their food, as per the lyrics of the song.

On 19 December, Enter Shikari announced a headlining North American tour in support of The Mindsweep with Stray from the Path, I the Mighty, Hundredth (3/23-3/31) and A Lot Like Birds (4/01-4/28).

[19] The latter called The Mindsweep the band's "most diverse album to date", contrasting the "punk thrash" of "There's a Price on Your Head" with "Dear Future Historians...", which they described as a "Radiohead-esque piano ballad".