They now harness their energy and admirable imagination to serve a song as precision-engineered pop chops have displaced the wilfully outre.
Manchester art-rockers are accessible but cutting edge on third album.
Get to Heaven is another big step toward the leading spotlight the burgeoning art-pop genre needs.
While Get to Heaven's ceaseless terror and heavy arrangements can be overwhelming, more power to Everything Everything for attempting to offer a nuanced understanding of a broken world at a time when a lot of their significantly less imaginative British indie rock peers say worse than nothing.
Exhausting third from hard-working art-rockers.
Few records released in 2015 will feel as true to the times as this one. Their contemporaries might have long since buried their heads in the sand, but Everything Everything are up to their eyes in dread.
It’s often compelling, but you occasionally find yourself gripped by an overwhelming urge to turn it off.
There are some records that everyone on AOTY just stans.
I know that might be a cringe inducing statement, nor was it the most thought out statement of all time, but there are various records that this site just completely adores with all of its heart. Some of these records are more subtly loved then others. There are the overtly loved records like Deathconciousness, or Spiderland, or any of Kanyes or Swans albums, and then there are the more subtly loved ones, like Smile! or __. And of ... read more
This album sits in a weird place for me- it's not an album that speaks to me on a personal level by any means (lyrically, in its theming, etc.)
It's far from relatable. The lyrics are ridiculous and tongue twisty. Higg's vocals aren't for everyone, and there's songs on here that I'm not dying to listen to on relistens.
Yet, when I think of a perfect album- an album unchangeable.. I think of Get To Heaven.
Every track here sits neatly and has value to both the album and myself. Every single ... read more
Pt. 5 of a huge album swap with my friend @TheSuds, I will be listening to their Top 42 albums that I haven't heard yet.
That drop on To The Blade scared the living shit out of me I almost got a heart attack, there was no need for that lol
I really didn't know what to expect from this album, I've never heard any music from the artist either, but I saw this iconic cover art everywhere, and now I finally have an opportunity to listen.
And I love it! It's a really unique experience, the idea ... read more
what was my password? best songs: to the blade, we sleep in pairs, blast doors, no reptiles, distant past
"Oh baby It's alright to feel like a fat child in a push chair"
That's gotta be top 10 greatest lyrics of all time.
This is kinda of difficult to rate for me. On one hand I do like the writing a lot, it's witty and subversive and the hooks are great as well. However, many songs on here just lack that bite for me? It's an issue I've had with this band, listening to their other works as well I just dont really get that impact that I get from many other great pieces of music that I've listened to. This is the strongest, catchiest set of tracks in their discography no doubt but it still lacks that punch. Maybe ... read more
1 | To the Blade 4:13 | 95 |
2 | Distant Past 3:41 | 92 |
3 | Get to Heaven 3:43 | 91 |
4 | Regret 3:22 | 90 |
5 | Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread 3:18 | 91 |
6 | The Wheel (Is Turning Now) 5:28 | 88 |
7 | Fortune 500 4:16 | 88 |
8 | Blast Doors 3:30 | 92 |
9 | Zero Pharaoh 3:39 | 87 |
10 | No Reptiles 4:42 | 93 |
11 | Warm Healer 6:10 | 90 |
#8 | / | Digital Spy |
#9 | / | The Needle Drop |
#13 | / | Gigwise |
#16 | / | musicOMH |
#17 | / | Time Out New York |
#20 | / | Q Magazine |
#31 | / | Under the Radar |
#34 | / | The Skinny |
#41 | / | Drowned in Sound |
/ | The Telegraph |