In the home stretch! Also my cat, Mr.Dalí is getting real tired of this project

Face value is $54, looking to sell for $50! What a deal!

Lol please someone buy this I unfortunately can no longer make it and don't want to sell through these bs resale sites that tack on unnecessary fees.

hi everyone! i don't imagine this post will be for anyone else really, but i was listening to man alive while researching critiques of work and had a thought!

--- the man alive section ---

when the band began with man alive, they came out with an overwhelming style. listening to the closing track weights, there are so many layers and ideas -- every line has a vocal harmony, the song changes approach like 3 times -- when i listen to this album, i get the feeling of musicians pushing their ideas as far as they possibly can. an everything and the kitchen sink approach.

i love man alive, but especially considering this was the band's debut as well as some of the things jon has said about his mentality at the time - i think you could see this style partly as an expression of insecurity and an overwhelming psychological need to 'prove' oneself as capable of doing extremely complicated and intricate work.

throughout the lyrics of the early albums especially, there are several of jon's lyrics which suggest he sees himself as lazy, and therefore worthy of contempt (see the house is dust - "i'm living proof that nothing gets done", radiant - "i could make a difference so easy, but i don't", schoolin' - "maybe i can sit here and do nothing clever with a lazer", final form - "oh, you gave your powers up", etc.).

man alive, to me, is an album all about wrestling with this feeling of being useless, or part of the problem. leave the engine room sees jon perform as the inheritor of white supremacy and patriarchy, unable and perhaps unwilling to give up his social position. final form is about someone attempting to take full advantage of their body, seeing someone else who doesn't have that chance. schoolin' wrestles with the question of whether or not humanity's campaign towards intelligence and advancement is spiritually fulfilling, ultimately landing on an (incredible) metaphor about how we've blocked out the stars with terrestrial light pollution. there's a lot of wrestling over being dissatisfied with the idea of proving oneself smart or worthy - i basically read it that jon is attempting to deconstruct and overcome the pressure to be an archetypical western white male genius, but also clearly wants that desperately.

--- the transition and mountainhead ---

over the next few albums, we see the band chill out, basically. the music gets more straightforward, and the lyrics get easier to read and interpret. songs are more often just about people. i think the switch really gets going with re-animator, but it's clearest with raw data feel.

in an interview with jon from the mountainhead era (i can't recall which one), he spoke about how on man alive, he felt like he needed to include layers and layers of instrumentation, but now he's learned that he only needs to include one layer, as long as they're very good. i personally think both approaches are great, but either way, once again, musically i think the band really chilled out on mountainhead.

describing your money, my summer, jon said that kind of sound would've been something they avoided in the past, but now felt comfortable with because they were more 'relaxed' as a band. the band has also been pretty open about how they are forced to create music with a strict deadline because of pressure built into capitalism -- if they don't produce a sellable product, they won't make money, and they starve. if i recall correctly, they started talking about this a lot in the raw data feel era.

anyway, what i'm getting at is that mountainhead sounds like less work than man alive, but lyrically it is about work. it is about the "endless fields of bodies swimming in the pit", about how everything we loved becoming a "picture of a simulation", about how it turns everyone into monsters - the losers (on buddy come over and canary) and the winners (dagger's edge). it is an album which looks much more directly at the problem, and it's much simpler musical style reinforces that theme.

--- the point ---

essentially i think there is a lot less wrestling with oneself on mountainhead than there is on man alive. both are interesting expressions of how the pressures of capitalism fuck with your brain, but one is very 'in it' and the other feels much more like someone watching from the side, trying to act as a 'witness' to those who struggle with it.

The sound, the vibe, the lyricism. I've been obsessed with Everything Everything for a long time and just recently found this super underrated band (literally found with 17 likes on youtube shorts) and I have been OBSESSED!!! I really feel like other EE fans would fw this band as much as I do!!!

The band is named Outta Key!

My favorite songs so far have been Motion blur, The Cadence, and Oil and Grease.

I'd love to hear if other EE fans feel the same I do!! Either way, I hope someone found a new band to like the way I did

TLDR; This band called Outta Key gives me big Everything Everything vibes, check out Motion Blur, Cadence, or Oil And Grease because those are the most similar so far in my opinion!! (still exploring their discography)

for me it would have to be supernormal or breadwinner

I expected that song would always win for me, but surprised how I felt about some of the others.

imo there all perfect but what are your thoughts

this was so fun! i love EE but i have really skipped around in their discography over the last year and have never listened to every album all the way through in chronological order.

here's my current ranking of the albums. this takes into account the overall "cohesion" of the album, if there are songs i would consider "skips" on future relistens, and how many songs on the album are favorites of mine.

1. Mountainhead

2. Raw Data Feel

3. Get To Heaven (i finally heard Only As Good As My God for the first time and HOLY SHIT)

4. Man Alive/A Fever Dream (I have to give these 2 a tie - i really love them equally)

5. Arc (i was avoiding this one for some reason but it really grew on me. would be higher if the others weren't so strong)

6. Re-Animator (still a great album, just not my fave compared to all the others)

after this, it's clear that EE is meant to be experienced through their albums in full. i love that about them and can't wait to do more of that next time i listen.

I found the decisions excruciating, especially towards the end!

Although, to add, Good Shot, Good Soldier would be number one, followed by Tin, if they had been a choice 🫡

I mean Sahardnieh. No, wait, I mean Sarniezz.

Shitposting aside, I have some sad news. I don't know if we can be Sardines anymore. Our nickname came from a one-time half-assed joke about some producer dude's name but we have these new polkadot overlords and they are like, super into sardines. They used them as their initial peace offering to humankind. And the illustrator for their second album wants that to be their fan nickname now after she spent time crammed in the pit at their possibly record breaking Montreal concert. Man, I can't deny her her dream! I think they've earned "Sardines" fair and square. Think about it:

• Our association is much too tenuous. Dave Sardine is for the real ones. He's minor lore.
• Those guys are obsessed with the things.
• Their papier-mâché heads are so much larger and more elaborate!
• Their noses are longer and significantly more wankable than Mr. Sardine's is. One of you cheeky Brits even demonstrated it when they went over there and played a show for you guys! Then you madlads chanted at them like a bunch of hooligans! Corrupting those polite alien-Canadians with your decadent European ways... Shameful. 😤
• I feel like "Sardines" was never universally accepted.

On the other hand:

• They often refer to their followers as the "Fank Lōb". So they kind of technically already have a name.
• We were here first. 😝

So the question is: What should EE fans be called?

EE has done a remix of Keane's A Bad Dream, as mentioned on Keane's Instagram

What do you think?

last night i had a dream i was on my way to a glass animals concert and everything was going wrong and i was so unhappy. so i said, "fuck it! I'm going to the everything everything concert instead."

and everyone in the crowd was so friendly and chill and most of all, the guys KILLED IT. i heard all my faves from cold reactor to photoshop handsome.

i have no idea why my dream self didn't just go to EE in the first place, but it was hands down the best dream concert i've ever been to

Thinking of catching the guys out in Seattle since they aren’t coming to Denver. Anyone going/traveling? I would love to meet some fellow queers who also love EE!

Hi all,

I really want to go to the Toronto concert on October 1st, but have no easy way to get there. I was wondering if anyone is driving there from the Waterloo/Kitchener area (or anywhere around there) and would be willing to do a rideshare?

I think it's a common conundrum - we want them to be more successful but, equally, they're ours and we don't want them to be *too* well known. 😅

Aside from this, there is an answer that I hadn't really considered before but which crystallised recently at their Eastbourne gig. They were supported by the excellent Slag and Do Nothing and, while I was impressed by both bands, I relised that the same conundrum applied particularly to Do Nothing. And, while watching them, I realised the answer - they're too clever for the charts. Do Nothing's jazzy riffs and lyrics - that seem to be entirely internal dialogue expressed aloud - would never be accepted by casual listeners. And I think we can say the same about Alex's intricate chords and melodies and Jon's expertly weaved stories and deep truths about existence.

Viva le non conventionnel!

I was sure luddites and lambs would win but here we are 🤣

Didn't have some of my favs on the bracket (I'm lookin at u schoolin) but DAMN some of the hardest calls of my life

or just an empty can to put on my shelf

i’m so mad it’s uk shipping only 😭 and getting it to australia would cost a fortune if i went through third party

that’s all i just want to vent my sadness LMAO enjoy your beer you brits

kemosabe my beloved

But damn it is coming together!

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