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Everything Everything - NASA is on your side

 

It is hard for any band, big or small, to live up to a name as all encompassing as ‘Everything Everything’. Whether this has been a deliberate ploy to evoke, prior to listening, a multitude of pre-conceived aural images or simply to dissuade the listener from any notions of genre or stereotype. Either way, this tact has been employed by New Year, Indie up-starts, Everything Everything.

 

Everything Everything are an extremely dense band to try and pick apart upon initial listening. They become a proverbial melting pot for a whole host of musical & cultural influences, meandering between said influences so quickly as to allude to their importance within the context of the band. Just as difficult as it is to try and attribute any overwhelming influences to Everything Everything, so too is it equally difficult to try and assign the band a meaningful genre within which they fit. Not this is a particularly negative aspect however, so often are we met with bands whose style is so archetypal to a genre that little or no creativity is exhibited, simply a reconstitution of passé ideas & clichéd musicianship.

 

Such, it is a much welcomed thing that Everything Everything are bending the rules to such a degree. Not since Jeff Buckley’s Corpus Christi Carol has a track, (NASA is on your side) employed the pseudo-choir boy vocal characteristic to such good effect.

 

Jeremy Everything’s soprano glides effortlessly over the various electronic blips & bleeps, syncopated percussions & analogue growls & snarls in a melange of awkwardly shimmering soundscapes.

 

Everything Everything are an interesting exercise in the art of musical bricolage, borrowing ideas & aesthetics from the last 30 years of popular music. Everything Everything look, and sound, as if they could be a very old, unknown band rediscovered during this decade  but also have an extremely fresh air about them, as if history is reinventing itself for the new millennium.

 

Seemingly, Everything Everything are something of an expression of the contradictory; nostalgic yet fresh, analogue yet digital, bold yet subtle, all characteristics which allow the band to be both a challenging listen, yet ultimately worthwhile. For once one becomes accustomed to the various polarities at work within their compositions, one is greeted with something that is graciously layered & steeped nuances.

 

With only a single date prior to the summer confirmed we can hope Everything Everything take their brand of neo-eclecticism on the road at some point prior & present themselves to the public en-masse. At least that’s what we can hope for.