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Scatterpop brain-pop math-rock indie metrosexual disco dance-punk herky-jerky post-punk-funk r'n'b.
Manchester based quartet Everything Everything’s jerky pop that mixes three part harmonies with big basslines and syncopated rhythms has led them to be described in some quarters as ‘XTC-style brain-pop chemists’.
Everything Everything are not, as you might think, an Underworld tribute act – instead they are a pulsating, genre-defying beauty, filled with inventive, erudite twists and unexpected, thrilling turns. As capable as filling a dancefloor as they are of sparking a thought, they're the sort of band that many an act will forever dream of being. Deeply exciting stuff.
Scatterpop outfit Everything Everything has long been skewering tropical rhythms with skyscraper synth lines. With a trio of hyper-falsetto voices squeezing twenty words into each second, these intelligent lads are blatant R. Kelly aficionados and seem to appreciate the bewildering qualities of math-rock or Radiohead and Pavement's slanted anthemic structures.
Suffragette Suffragette is a clicking, polyrhythmic example of their finely-honed approach to songwriting. It weaves and bobs, dashing from choral, harmonising vocal over-indulgence to pared-down calm – which serve to push their superb weirdness to the fore.
Single Photoshop Handsome grabs a wild chorus by the ears and rides it hopefully, wrestling it to fit into their idiosyncratically off-the-wall framework. It yelps, shouts and chirps – but not for the sake of it – and then slips confidently into a huge, pounding, synth finale.
[...] a clever bunch of Manchester-bred lads who mix soulful, metrosexual pop hymns with intelligent guitar hooks.
On paper they're an alt-pop band with hooks. Fine so far. It's just their idea of alt-pop is one that has been severely chopped up, electrocuted and generally messed around with until the ready for prime time sheen is surrounded by broken bits of pop. Their harmonies recall a falsetto Futureheads, their breaks are likely to feature earth burrowing bass or broken riffage, and throughout they still manage to keep a tight rein on their razor wire post-punk-funk with opaque lyrics and a curious method of vocalisation.
They are seen in white labcoats on their MySpace, looking like scientists, and funnily enough they sound like you imagine We Are Scientists do: basslines and beats to make boffins boogie, falsetto harmonies that are more facetious than Fleet Foxes-ish, odd time-signatures, the sort of "herky-jerky" rhythms they used to ascribe to new wave groups like XTC and Split Enz, and a melody that sounds like two or three songs going on at once. Oh, not to forget a series of dense, elliptical lyrics that cover such chart-worthy summer fun-time subjects as digital image manipulation and reincarnation.