★★★★★
In approaching Arc, enigmatic art-rockers Everything Everything had little left to prove. Their dazzling debut album reeked of brazen creativity, critics praising its schizophrenia. It was exciting - if a little obtuse at times - and, ultimately, it made you wonder just where the band would take things for album two. Arc is generally less scattered and jagged than its predecessor, consolidating the stylistic affectations of Man Alive with a more mature trajectory...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Manchester four-piece Everything Everything have been at the forefront of a quirky renaissance in blurring the boundaries between indie, electronica and pop. Their second album owes debts to Wild Beasts, Hot Chip and Foals but sounds like none of them, especially as their way with lyrics sets them apart...
- www.mixmag.net
2013-02-12
★★★★★
"There were reasons to get out of my bed" sings Jonathan Higgs at the start of Feet For Hands, quite reasonably. Then a second or so later, for no apparent reason, he adds "eh", r'n'b style.
Now look at Jonathan Higgs. Look at him. He's there, on the top left of the album cover. Look at his face. Does he, for a moment, look like he could convincingly trot out r'n'b tropes without looking like Martin Freeman singing Jumpin Jumpin at a karaoke party...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-02-01
★★★★★
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Everything Everything Arc
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It may resemble a collage of mugshots from Crimewatch's Rogues Gallery, but the image you're staring at in disbelief is actually the cover of Everything Everything's second album, Arc. Pretty ghastly, isn't it...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-01-18
★★★★★
The first single to be released from Everything Everything's second album, Arc, kicks off with a finger-wag at the deadening effect of extreme consumerism: "Sold your liver, but you still feel in the red/ Sold my feelings now I'm hanging by a thread...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
January 8, 2013
Everything Everything - 'Arc'
Ditching the look-at-us songwriting of their debut, the future pop of the second album points to good times ahead
Album Info
Release Date: January 14, 2013 Producer: David Kosten Label: Sony
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In his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near, the American futurologist Ray Kurzweil...
- www.nme.com
2013-01-15
★★★★★
'Cough. Cough. Cough.' It might not be the punchy intro you might expect of heralded Manchester indie boys Everything Everything but cast aside any assumptions and indulge in the outcome of the justified hype. The single 'Cough Cough', with its irregular polyrhythms and twitching electronic riff make for a backbone of instability and it's an attention-grabbing start to a much anticipated album. Arc's addictive uneasiness is its USP...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-01-14
★★★★★
After an acclaimed debut which managed to balance the experimental with the saccharine, Everything Everything are making a grab for the mainstream second time around.
With its ever so slightly grating falsettos and R&B-influenced structures, Arc is built with daytime radio in mind as much as the indie disco. You can hear the words now, too. And, such is Jonathan Higgs' intelligent approach to lyricism, that word is perfectly likely to be "genuflecting".
- www.independent.co.uk
2013-01-14
★★★★★
Everything Everything's 2010 debut, Man Alive, was dizzyingly ambitious - at times, too much so - with any given song seemingly containing more ideas than Stereophonics have mustered in their entire career to date. The follow-up starts in similar fashion, with recent single Cough Cough and Kemosabe both featuring kernels of pop gold beneath layer after layer of complexity...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-01-12
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