Showing posts with label everything everything. Show all posts
Showing posts with label everything everything. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Albums of the Decade - 71. Everything Everything - Man Alive (2010)

71. EVERYTHING EVERYTHING - MAN ALIVE (2010) 

This band were a multi-coloured lightning bolt that came from nowhere in 2010, with this debut of insanity, syncopation and flamboyance. The falsetto vocals of Jonathan Higgs play on one going insane; see 2:07 in, on second track "Qwerty Finger:"

"I can't Let you turn yourself off oooh..." 
...which has got the kind of awkwardness in the title that only the British could muster in a spewy imagination that constantly has a battery in its leg before warbling: "To draw asunder every leper curtain, would be a hail of every flower to ash Ah!!!" - well that's according to one lyrics site. Every. Day. Life. Is. Fucking. Weird. And. We. Should. Acknowledge. It

As the decade comes to a close, and we lay in a quagmire of uncertainty, it's a pity that we can't jog back nine years and yank this out as a soundtrack to show how fractured the inner-soul was before it exploded outwards into vanity and massive societal meltdown. (editors note - especially hear the track "Photoshop Handsome")



Thursday, December 23, 2010

Records of 2010 - 10. Everything Everything - Man Alive

Records of 2010 - 10. Everything Everything - Man Alive

The most underrated record this year. Pitchfork claimed: "Man Alive is jacked up with bizarre key changes, superfluous time-signature switches, electro noodling, and half-rap lyrics delivered in run-on melodies" giving it a 3.8 /10 in the process".

They felt it was a bit overcooked, a bit too full, overly rich. I disagree. I think it turns many corners, delivers a lot bizarre wit: "Who's gonna sit on your face when I'm gone?" asks the band on "Suffragette Suffragette." In terms of style, they are recollective of early Blur chippernes, mixed with the sparkling oddness of Wild Beasts. The production is stellar, the voice is stellar, this album is stellar. However, my writing is full of Spanish Rioja.