Everything Everything look back at ‘off-putting’ debut album


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Everything Everything have aimed to make their second album ‘Arc‘ more accessible after describing the 2010 debut ‘Man Alive‘ as ‘weird’ and ‘off-putting’.

In an interview with the BBC, the Manchester band’s frontman Jonathan Higgs has said the common theme of their first record, full of deviations, sharp turns and unexpected pleasures – a formula which found favour with critics and landed them a Mercury Music Prize nomination – was in fact down to a lack of confidence permeating throughout the band which resulted in a desire to ‘hide yourself and stop people knowing who you really are’.

Instead, on ‘Arc’, Higgs says they, “Didn’t want people to feel it was off-limits because they don’t have a degree,” adding: “On the last tour, I would be looking at a sea of confused faces, of people trying to sing along. I’d think ‘this song means everything to me, and you don’t even know what I’m on about’.”

‘Arc’ handed Everything Everything a Top 5 place on the UK Album Chart when it debuted last Sunday.


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