Electronic Sound July 2015 (Regular Edition) | Page 20
ALBUM REVIEWS
Tracks seem to start out full of infectious
songmongering and end up descending
into seedy, locked-down swirling keys,
layer upon layer of deep rumblingness
as they unfurl toward their conclusions.
It’s as if they morph from indie shizz to
machine music before your very ears. It’s
a neat trick.
EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING
Get To Heaven
SONY/RCA
Three albums in and the electronic
penny drops big time for the arty
Manc four-piece
If you had Everything Everything down
as “art rock indie, bit of synth”, you
wouldn’t be far wrong. Their 2010
debut album, ‘Man Alive’, was too
much frantic twangy guitar and we’d
lost interest before the 2013 follow-up,
‘Arc’. And then along comes the recent
single ‘Distant Past’, with its bright, nu
rave chops. What’s all this then, we
wondered.
While they’ve not gone all Aphex Twin
or anything, ‘Get To Heaven’, EE’s third
long-player, is full of proper synthy
goodness thanks to one Stuart Price at
the controls. Just ask Madonna, the Pet
Shop Boys, Kylie and Take That what Stu
can do. Thing is, this isn’t pop. Nope.
This is a band and producer combo who
have done a number on a bunch of
seriously catchy tunes... then they’ve
been scrunched up, frayed around the
edges, and stubbed out underfoot. The
result? A genuine curio of a record that’ll
stay with you for a long, long time.
‘Fortune 500’ is an ocean wave of a
song, breaking down over and over to
build a wall of sound with voices and
a wedding chime of electronics. The
run-in to the end of ‘Warm Healer’ is a
delight, a proper electrical soaking, a
deep growl of bass that throbs towards
the six-minute plus mark in a manner
so pleasing you suspect it’s the record’s
final track. But no, it’s just the start of a
highly satisfying closing trio, each upping
the ante. ‘The Wheel (Is Turning Now)’
digs in for an insistent uptempo romp,
while ‘Zero Pharaoh’ is an irresistible,
soaring, pop belter that climaxes in quite
a swell with its rapid “Gimme the gun”
refrain over and over.
Lyrically, ‘Get To Heaven’ is fairly out
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