EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
Raw Data Feel (PIAS)
How does one revolutionise modern pop music? This was something Everything Everything wanted to combat on Raw Data Feel, their sixth studio album, after 2020’s songwriting-focused Re-Animator. Never ones to shy away from the intertwining complexities of odd-timed drums, knotted harmonies and soaring falsetto vocals, the Manchester band have always been a few steps ahead and Raw Data Feel is just another example of that.
Creating an AI programme to do some of the lyric grafting, Everything Everything have produced an unsettled record held together by flickering impulses and industrial instrumentation. Teletype’s transgressive, choppy electronic cuts precede more roughly sliced synthesizers in Metroland Is Burning, frontman Jonathan Higgs’ soaring vocal calling to a reoccurring character, one “Kevin”, throughout. Even with the harshness of certain electronic sounds and attention-inducing elements, HEX and Pizza Boy’s killer bass hooks notable among them, Higgs commands every track almost effortlessly.
words EMMA WAY
