Everything Everything by Steve Gullick
Everything Everything will release their new album on March 1st.
Everything Everything have shared another track from their forthcoming Mountainhead LP.
This song is about the subject of a viral road rage video, Ronnie Pickering, who shot to (a certain kind of) fame by insisting on his own significance, repeatedly asking, ‘Do you know who I am? I’m Ronnie Pickering.’ An enraged former boxer trying to find his place in a world that doesn’t remember his name.
The End Of The Contender is more of the record which has, like much of the band’s previous output, a high concept running through it – this particular narrative of a society, ‘forever building an immense mountain, at the cost of living in the resulting giant hole (quarry)’, according to Jonathan Higgs.
“All of society is built around the creation of the mountain, and a mountain religion dominates all thought. At the top of the mountain is rumoured to be a huge mirror that reflects endlessly recurring images of the self, and at the bottom of the pit is a giant golden snake that is the primal fear of all believers.”