Everything Everything
RE-ANIMATOR
Release Date: Sep 11, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Dance-Rock
Record label: Everything Everything
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Album Review: RE-ANIMATOR by Everything Everything
Excellent, Based on 5 Critics
Based on rating 8.5/10
It's an enviable legacy for any band but equally, it does come with its fair share of challenges. With repeated success comes expectation and a mounting pressure to deliver a product that is simultaneously evocative but also modern. It's a tightrope to be sure but thankfully it's one that the band walks candidly. Re-animator is an Everything Everything record to its very core; richly textured harmonies are led in prim falsetto via Jonathan Higg's intricately strung lyricism and cocooned in deceptively complex drum patterns, arpeggiating guitars and treacly synthesisers.
Based on rating 4
On their sixth album, Everything Everything are exploring the idea of splitting. Don't be too alarmed - the band remain a committed, single unit - but in the making of Re-Animator singer Jonathan Higgs became preoccupied with the idea of divided selves in his writing process. You can immediately see how this would work within the quartet. That name, for a start, then the idea of two versus two, not to mention the complex harmonies they use that often inhabit more than one personality in the same musical line.
Based on rating 8
Manchester art-pop heroes Everything Everything learn to let the light in on emphatically creative eleven track selection 'Re-Animator'. The band's fifth record, it dazzles in its creativity, moving past the global dystopia of 2015's 'Get To Heaven', while tracing the personal touches that shadowed 2017's Mercury nominated set 'A Fever Dream'. Bombastic opener 'Lost Powers' screams out of the stereo, with Jonathan Higgs' superb falsetto notes intermingling with something a little more raw.
Based on rating 4/5
Everything Everything have always had a penchant for dabbling in doom, but it's on fifth album, 'Re-Animator', that they've distilled that dread into something darkly crystalline. From the lilting but mesmerising opener of 'Lost Powers' - and Jonathan Higgs' repeated gambit of "C'mon, you only lost your mind" - there's a surreal quality to the record, with its at-times grotesque lyrics juxtaposed with serene instrumentation. An altogether more cinematic offering - from the menacing Radiohead-esque 'It Was A Monstering' to the proggy 'Planets' via the almost dreamlike chorus of 'Lord of the Trapdoor' - it pushes what they've achieved previously into bolder sonic territory.
Based on rating 8/10
Everything Everything's fifth studio album, RE-ANIMATOR, follows a pair of rousing, socially and politically charged U.K. Top Ten releases in Get to Heaven and A Fever Dream. A sleeker, less hectic album that pauses to take stock of things, RE-ANIMATOR also marks the launch of the group's own AWAL label. It was produced by first-time collaborator John Congleton, known for his work with acts like St.
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