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Everything is back this January with their second full length studio album, Arc. Arc
is an ambitious 13 track album with a varied sound and genre-defying aesthetic
that demonstrates a keen understanding of musicality and pacing.
The album starts off
strong with ‘Cough Cough’, their first single from the album, released in late
2012. ‘Cough Cough’ is a thumping drum heavy track perfectly stacked against
thickly layered vocals and guitars. ‘Cough Cough’ then turns into ‘Kemosabe’, a
track not dissimilar to ‘Cough Cough’ in its construction and musical accents.
Jonathan Higgs’ vocals are unique and winding on this track and guide
masterfully into an impossibly catchy chorus.
The tracks begin to sound more and more varied and different from one another, while maintaining quick paced guitar riffs and falsetto vocals. The songs are rich in their instrumental capacity and drum heavy while still managing to remain loose and airy in their construction.
Spindly and unyielding, Everything Everything offer ‘Undrowned’, a track that sounds as if it could easily be on a past Foals record. Clean falsetto vocals drift into title track ‘_Arc_’ and then into ‘Armourland’ which mixes the quick pacing of the opening tracks with ethereal and almost dream like vocals.
‘Radiant’ is a standout track placed near the end and put together with more conventional construction, reminiscent of some of Everything Everything’s contemporaries. ‘The Peaks’ and ‘Don’t Try’, for example, could be right out of a Coldplay release with their broad vocals and grave sounding organs. And yet they stand forlornly on their own two feet as beautiful and emotion wrought Everything Everything track.
Brilliant four piece, Everything Everything do exactly what should be done on an alternative rock album of this nature. Each track is dynamic and interesting while avoiding overproduced and overwrought musical construction of many of their contemporaries.
Arc was released January 14, 2013 on Geffen records and is available in stores, on iTunes and on Amazon.
The tracks begin to sound more and more varied and different from one another, while maintaining quick paced guitar riffs and falsetto vocals. The songs are rich in their instrumental capacity and drum heavy while still managing to remain loose and airy in their construction.
Spindly and unyielding, Everything Everything offer ‘Undrowned’, a track that sounds as if it could easily be on a past Foals record. Clean falsetto vocals drift into title track ‘_Arc_’ and then into ‘Armourland’ which mixes the quick pacing of the opening tracks with ethereal and almost dream like vocals.
‘Radiant’ is a standout track placed near the end and put together with more conventional construction, reminiscent of some of Everything Everything’s contemporaries. ‘The Peaks’ and ‘Don’t Try’, for example, could be right out of a Coldplay release with their broad vocals and grave sounding organs. And yet they stand forlornly on their own two feet as beautiful and emotion wrought Everything Everything track.
Brilliant four piece, Everything Everything do exactly what should be done on an alternative rock album of this nature. Each track is dynamic and interesting while avoiding overproduced and overwrought musical construction of many of their contemporaries.
Arc was released January 14, 2013 on Geffen records and is available in stores, on iTunes and on Amazon.
Everything Everything//Kemosabe
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