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Formed in Manchester in 2007 after Jonathan Higgs and Jeremy Pritchard met at Salford University; Everything Everything were then joined by Higgs’s Northumberland school friends Michael Spearman and Alex Niven. Niven left the group to take his doctorate at Oxford and was replaced by Alex Robertshaw this line up remains intact today. Working with Bat For Lashes producer David Kosten (aka Faultline), the recording of debut album Man Alive was completed mainly in a chapel in North Wales. The album sounded unique. Nothing dates like the future, yet Man Alive sounds dateless, placeless, and as a result, stands up perfectly many years later. Man Alive was only the beginning of the group’s adventures in to use their words ‘Mismatched styles of music mashed together.’ The result is often exhilarating; there are Brazilian drums and a prog guitar breakdown in Schoolin’, classical influences, as well. Its subject matter is often way outside the realms of conventional songwriting; MY KZ, UR BF explored the different Americas: the cosy self-centred domesticity of programmes such as Friends versus a foreign policy based on killing; Qwerty Finger examines imperialism. Anglo Saxon guilt is also present. Finally reissued, the classic album is available on single vinyl LP as well as a double vinyl LP featuring rarities, outtakes, works in progress and demos.
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