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 F