Everything Everything: Man Alive | CD review

(Geffen)It says a lot about Everything Everything that the kitchen sink turns up right at the start of their debut album, in the unusually intelligible lyrics to MY KZ, UR BF. The Manchester-based quartet really do throw everything, but everything, at their music in a laudable bid to sound unique. Inevitably, influences can still be detected, chief among them the Futureheads: in the jagged vocal harmonies and Jonathan Higgs's staccato singing; in the jittery rhythms; in the surprising degree of ...

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