Everything Everything – Man Alive

Releasedate: 30-08-10; Label: Geffen
By: Lara Cappelli

Everything Everything is a British Electronic Pop band formed in late 2007. After the release of several singles, their first album “Man Alive” debuted last summer.

Undoubtedly, “Man Alive” is an album which can be put into pop, although this genre is definitely too reductive when referring to Everything Everything’s music. This English band’s debut album is slippery and unpredictable, but in the positive meaning of these words: it’s ever-changing and developing new melodies on others. It might take a new shape after every listening: at first one could notice the progressive influence of it, then the electronic one and then Jonathan Higgs voice comes forward and forward until it actually gets to be the strong point of the whole album. While melodies are always making space to new ones, you still get the feeling that Jonathan’s vocals, characterized by a wide use of falsetto, are there to give a steady point to the album. All the songs of the album are rhythmically decomposed in many different parts that get themselves noticed through elusive melodies that still sound paradoxically in harmony one with the other.
Everything Everything succeeded in delivering an album which has the potential to stand on top of the charts, still being filled with a wide use of unconventional techniques.

Line Up:
Jonathan Higgs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Jeremy Pritchard Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Alex Robertshaw Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Michael Spearman Drums, Backing Vocals