Everything Everything
Get To Heaven
(RCA )
Album covers are often a portal into the soul of what you are about to hear - Nirvana's Nevermind, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, Pixies' Surfer Rosa. So when the surreal and gory animated art of Everything Everything's Get To Heaven arrived, I became all ears. The band already have a Mercury Music Prize nomination under their belt for their debut, Man Alive, and these 11 falsetto-happy cerebral songs grab more often than not with quirky structures which draw parallels to the band's recent touring partners, Foals. This reveals itself at its best on the complex, throbbing nugget that is The Wheel (Is Turning Now) and on the penultimate No Reptiles, an unpredictable mobile-phone-torches-in-the-air tale which draws comparisons to epic-mode Elbow. The album starts with two belters, To The Blade and Distant Past, that at first sound retro-indie but win through, as does most of the album, with clever production tweaks, dynamic twists and killer hooks. Closing track Warm Healer drifts aimlessly by, but that's the exception to the rule in this quirkily constructed gem.
Martin Williams
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