Imagine a band putting
the fun back into the ever lasting pop music, with a take of their own, fusing
three part harmonies with scalding post-punk guitar rifts. Throw in some
floor-filling bass lines, syncopated rhythmns and captivating musings and
you’ve got the Mancunian four piece, Everything Everything.
A band championed by
the likes of former backing vocalist, Lianne La Havas and self confessed super
fan, Lucy Rose proclaiming there’s just no other band like them at the moment.
Everything Everything
are Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard, Alex Robertshaw and Michael Spearman and
last night they celebrated their return with the release of their second studio
album, ‘Arc’.
Playing to a packed
out crowd at Rough Trade East, the band delivered a short yet punchy, pitch
perfect set, oozing with pop gold beneath layers of complexity.
It seems the quartet
have take a somewhat less uptight, laid back and relaxed approach to the
workings of their second album, Arc in contrast to their Mercury nominated
debut, ‘Man Alive’.
Bursting onto the
small stage here at Rough Trade, frontman Higgs showcases melancholic vocals
from the start in opener, ‘Radiant’. With their trademark energetic, pounding
beats, Higgs stares into the crowd as he delivers his faultless vocals, ‘I’m
staring through the telescope hungry…’ paying reference to the vocalists study
of futurology. Although he needn’t look much further, with ‘Arc’ cementing a
very bright future for the band.
Highlights include
crowd pleaser and recent single, ‘Kemosabe’, the result of a somewhat Justin
Vernon style of retreat, Mum and Dad’s garden shed in the wild depths of
Cumbria.
Showcasing the very
best of Everything Everything and a true testament to their new record, the
single indicates a band that have most certainly found their feet. Teaming
frenetic vocals with their unique mechanical, robo pop sounds, the result is a
certain live favourite.
Gaining interaction
from the receptive crowd, Higgs thanks us folk for buying the record and charms
the audience once more with unexpected curt strings, a contradictory paradox to
the previous song, with crashing drums and emotive, ear-thrilling vocal
harmonies.
Of course, first
single and album opener ‘Cough Cough’ features in the set, with its choppy somewhat
frantic collage of melodic styles and layered synths. Unfortunately, it’s here
the band leave us wanting more, closing their short set with slow builder
‘Don’t Try’.
Their sold out show at
Rough Trade comes off the back of the band’s sophomore release ‘Arc’ which is
available now, storming into the Top 3 as the highest new entry its first two
days of sales.
As if that wasn’t
enough, the band will embark on an extensive UK tour showcasing the new album
from February. Following this, the band will head back out to Europe (having
just completed a run over there supporting Muse) from March 1 onwards.
Top marks all ‘round.
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