Everything Everything - Get To Heaven
Critic Score
Based on 22 reviews
2015 Ratings: #71 / 1021
User Score
2015 Rank: #25
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Q Magazine
A transcendent moment for Manchester-based four-piece.
100
DIY
Everything Everything have sculpted a masterpiece. ‘Get to Heaven’ may well have slipped from the clouds.
100
The Telegraph
It feels like the Manchester-based band have taken the back off every current pop trend, jiggered about with the wiring, put in fresh batteries and made it all interesting again.
90
Clash
Even bigger and better things are to come for Everything Everything. Right now they are Britain's best pop band.
85
The 405
It's the insular nature of these songs that makes the album better than their previous efforts, a purity emerges from their new found restraint, there is depth to be found in its breathing room.
85
The Line of Best Fit
This is pop music with complex narratives, and if the masses are willing to listen, they could be the band that recharges the UK charts with genuinely meaningful music.
80
Drowned in Sound

They now harness their energy and admirable imagination to serve a song as precision-engineered pop chops have displaced the wilfully outre.

80
Evening Standard

Manchester art-rockers are accessible but cutting edge on third album.

80
The Irish Times
Three albums into their career, the Manchester band have found the groove that has sputtered and occasionally stalled on their previous records.
80
The Needle Drop
Everything Everything comes through with a creative, progressive pop album with equal parts eccentricity and accessibility.
80
The Skinny
It’s a proven formula, but throw in cheeky wordplay and EE are a welcome counterpoint to today’s starchily sincere indie brood. A repeatedly rewarding follow-up.
80
Under the Radar

Get to Heaven is another big step toward the leading spotlight the burgeoning art-pop genre needs.

80
AllMusic
The lyrical content, along with the album's constant energy, make this Everything Everything's most focused effort thus far, one that bundles brawny indie rock with 2010s Zeitgeist.
80
musicOMH
Here, then, is musical proof that clever calculations and emotion can mix.
72
Pitchfork

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.

70
Uncut

Exhausting third from hard-working art-rockers.

70
NME

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.

60
God Is in the TV
As a whole it’s brave and entertaining but conceptually incomplete.
60
The Guardian

It’s often compelling, but you occasionally find yourself gripped by an overwhelming urge to turn it off. 

PipePanic
100

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

ruubiks
100

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

RemisReviews
88

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

Firstpres
96

what was my password? best songs: to the blade, we sleep in pairs, blast doors, no reptiles, distant past

TYSON
95

"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.

80

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

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Track List

1To the Blade
4:13
95
2Distant Past
3:41
92
3Get to Heaven
3:43
91
4Regret
3:22
90
5Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread
3:18
91
6The Wheel (Is Turning Now)
5:28
88
7Fortune 500
4:16
88
8Blast Doors
3:30
92
9Zero Pharaoh
3:39
87
10No Reptiles
4:42
93
11Warm Healer
6:10
90
Total Length: 46 minutes
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Added on: February 21, 2015