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95
An album that unflinchingly surveys the personal and societal tolls that the year’s seismic shifts in national and global politics have taken, all whilst continuing to push at the borders of what a pop song can be.
90
Everything Everything continue to push their creativity and abilities as a group on A Fever Dream, shifting and adapting their sound while retaining their knack for melody, challenging rhythms and standout lyricism.
90
Over the top? Yeah. Misanthropic? Frequently. Inspiring? Bloody hell, yes. One of our best – certainly one of our most interesting – bands has played another blinder.
87
A more polished and focussed album than their previous efforts, 'A Fever Dream' is a triumph of eclectic sounds and memorable lyrics that makes for their best album yet.
85
It’s an exciting and very cohesive addition to an increasingly sprawling back catalogue. It expands an overarching narrative that becomes clearer, angrier, and more relatable with each step.
85
A Fever Dream contains not just the most focused, polished songwriting of the band's career, but also some tender, sincere balladry, a new look for them.
80
Four albums in finds them throughout Fever Dream constantly challenging musical and cultural conventions.
80
Fortunately they’ve couched each depressing mess in some of their most bombastic and beautiful melodies to date.
80
Bold, uncompromising and totally EE, ‘A Fever Dream’ further cements the idea that the Manchester outfit will one day be considered as one of art-pop’s true greats.
80
It’s an intense, dizzy trip that takes quite some digesting, but with brilliant results.
80
Altogether, A Fever Dream is confrontational, warped, emotionally and aurally high-contrast, and full of turmoil, but reliable in its infectiousness.
80
In its subtler, more sophisticated moments, A Fever Dream is an astounding album: anxiety-inducing, perhaps, but also appropriate.
80
Intrinsically critical, the album delivers the band’s message via their consistently experimental approach to genre, striving for uniqueness in an oversubscribed marketplace.
71
A rare example of indie-rock insurrection in Britain, A Fever Dream—darkly glamorous, flamboyantly appalled—is a fine monument to the nation’s despair.
70
A Fever Dream continues Everything Everything praise-worthy wordplay, powerful commentary and quirky mix of modern terminology meets erudite phrases.
65
Taking clever notes from artists like Major Lazer in their mix of beats and quirky instrumentation, “A Fever Dream” has a weird EDM pop drive to its sound that’s all too infectious. Even when the lyrics slip out of their catchier moments, the drive is too addictive to give up.
60
The latest Everything Everything album finds the UK art pop outfit taking their songwriting in a moodier and somewhat more conventional direction.
60
There are moments of innovation as A Fever Dream ends, winding down with glitchy samples and muted ambient production. But for the most part Everything Everything bizarrely sound like club remix versions of their own songs.
60
Everything Everything continue to convey their bottomless ideas effortlessly, chained to the rhythm, even if their dizzying dance is beginning to show signs of fatigue.
My review for The405:
“Is there something wrong with all of this?
Or is there something wrong with me?”
As a middle class, leftist, liberal white guy, unfairly privileged by education and circumstance, I find myself relating to the above sentiment, as expressed by Jonathan Higgs on ‘New Deep’, the penultimate track of his band’s excellent fourth album. It’s impossible to follow the news from one day to the next and not come to one of two conclusions: either ... read more
Didn't feel like writing a review on the new stuff I've heard but I listened to this a lot when I had no internet so here goes.
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Many of my favorite EE songs sound like they're gonna fall apart at any moment. There's so much eccentric shit and wild ideas in the mix that it's fascinating how well they're all working together. What if they did fall apart though? Well, then you'd get A Fever Dream.
They've called it Get To Heaven's companion themselves, so as much as I hate how people always ... read more
Welp, this is the first project of theirs to bore me so far. Which is sad to say, but it's okay. They can't all be bangers.
From what I can tell, the band was going for a dreamier sound for this project, and it honestly didn't interest me that much because of it. I feel like they could've gone a lot deeper with it.
That being said, don't go thinking this doesn't have any value! Because there are two genuinely EXCEPTIONAL songs on this project. Those being "Good Shot, Good Soldier" ... read more
This album is a stark contrast to the rest of the everything everything discography as it is both quite easily interpreted and extremely political. Though the sort of visceral gut reaction to Trump and Brexit may seem a little dated now. This feels like an exorcism of some of the band's personal demons.
All this and I haven't mentioned the songs, a banger ridden first half followed by a slower more introspective second create a whole which is well worth your time.
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Track List
| 1 | Night of the Long Knives 4:38 | 94 |
| 2 | Can't Do 3:32 | 90 |
| 3 | Desire 3:25 | 89 |
| 4 | Big Game 3:48 | 75 |
| 5 | Good Shot, Good Soldier 4:50 | 81 |
| 6 | Run the Numbers 3:38 | 87 |
| 7 | Put Me Together 5:32 | 86 |
| 8 | A Fever Dream 5:59 | 85 |
| 9 | Ivory Tower 3:53 | 88 |
| 10 | New Deep 2:26 | 86 |
| 11 | White Whale 4:49 | 87 |
Total Length: 46 minutes
Year End Lists
| #12 | / | God Is In The TV |
| #29 | / | Q Magazine |
| #38 | / | Dork |
| #59 | / | PopMatters |
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Added on: June 13, 2017