Everyzine Everyzine Vol.1 - 2020

AN EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
RETROSPECTIVE: HIGHLIGHTS AND HARD
HITTERS
By: Southern_Corn
Everything Everything is one of my personal
favourite bands ever. There isn’t a thing I don’t
like about them (other than the fact they share
their name with an annoying little movie).
Their vocals, their music, their lyrics are generally
top-notch and quite memorable. They
are a remarkably consistent band and all their
albums truly shine in their own way. And in
celebration of their newest album coming out,
I’ll be taking a look at their previous albums,
one by one and noting the highlights from
them as we go along. I’ll give my thoughts on
my album as a whole, my favourite and most
addicting tracks from there as well which ones
aren’t given enough recognition for what they
are. I’ll also be talking about the bonus tracks
from that era which could have worked well on
the album. Consider this sort of a celebration
of what EE is to me. I hope you enjoy! Now
let’s begin.
Man Alive
This has some really great tunes in it, pretty
stunning debut. First three tracks are a pretty
hard-hitting opening to the album and I
honestly really like the songs in the middle half
a lot too. The sheer amount of variety is
incredible, all of the songs have their own
unique feel and instrumentation to them and
the abundance of fun and interesting lyrics is
also pretty great, though that being said some
of them are inscrutable even now. I don’t have
too much against this album, though I do think
it ends up also not being a fully cohesive
album purely because of how over the place it
is. The flow between some of them is
admittedly a bit wonky, like how Photoshop
Handsome and Suffragette Suffragette both get
put in the midst of some of the slower tracks
like Two For Nero, Final Form and Leave The
Engine Room. Thinking about it I’m not really
super big on the last couple of tracks either.
They are alright still, I just prefer the way their
other albums end in comparison. The other albums
definitely feel more coherent and focused
in comparison to this. Still, the rather eclectic
nature of this album as a whole definitely
makes it a memorable listen for sure.
Favourite songs:
1) Final Form- Pretty underrated track, I like
the guitar and the mellow voice in this. The
story behind this is also very sad. Big fan of
the bridge in the final part, Jon’s vocals in that
segment are pretty superb. I like how this t
ransitions to Photoshop Handsome at the end
since they kind of juxtapose each other.
2) NASA Is On Your Side- Top tier stuff, the
way it transitions between several moods and
explores so much stuff is pretty amazing and it
really does represent the state of a teenager’s
mind pretty well. Lyricism is honestly beautiful
here. Love the calm piano in the verses
contrasted with the rather intense
instrumentation of the chorus (not to mention
the fast and fun bridge, by far my favourite
part of the song). Overall though it just feels
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