Arc
On the Manchester art-rock band's second album, the flat-out ridiculousness of their debut is replaced with a mixture of concise, moving, often funny pop singles, mid-paced laments, and roiling tirades.
A focused beast of hyperventilating frustration, full of contemporary critique and the strained emotion of unrequited love.
Everything Everything's mission statement is to make pop music that sounds like no one else – a mantra the Manchester-based band have regularly trotted out in interviews since gaining national attention with the multi-faceted Man Alive two years ago. Yet for all their eagerness to experiment, they remain firmly a product of their times; the combination of crashing bass drum, urgent synth lines and pleading falsetto that comprises lead track Cough Cough characterises the predominant sound of the late noughties.
ClashMusic: Read an album review of Manchester band Everything Everything's second album 'Arc' featuring the singles 'Cough Cough' and 'Kimosabe'.
Everything Everything's second album finds their intelligence and appeal undimmed, writes <strong>Phil Mongredien</strong>
The aptly named Everything Everything have calmed down a bit, but there's still a sense here of a band unsure of who they are, writes <strong>Tim Jonze</strong>
Fidgety, exasperating second album from 2011 Mercury nominees. CD review by Kieron Tyler