Not Many Experts

Just thought that I should keep you up to date with the developments of our excitement for what Everything Everything are promising to deliver later this year. We’ve already spilled many words over them back here, perhaps presumptuously labelling them as being certain to “chart within months”, but upon the evidence of these extra couple of songs below, we might just be proved right. What makes this consistency yet more impressive is that “Suffragette Suffragette” and “Photoshop Handsome” were actually the two preceding singles to “My Keys Your Boyfriend”; if they continue on this upward trajectory of quality then the debut album (which will be out on Geffen later this year) could be truly worth all of the name checking “Ones To Watch” lists and laboured features such as these.

I mean, we love writing about new bands, but have noticed a worrying tendency for tipped and hyped artists to go on to produce really underwhelming albums, whilst great albums by artists like Bon Iver and The Antlers come out of nowhere to leave us looking like we’ve been completely wasting our time. I can only assume is that this is a side effect of bloggers making tips and picking up on bands based on singles – would it have been easy to recognise The Antler’s beauty in just one scratchy demo? That said, bands like the xx are much welcomed exceptions to this rule (though perhaps the exception that prove the rule) and we can only hope that Everything Everything continue to confound our dubious theory.

Everything Everything – Suffragette Suffragette

Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome

I really think that you should waste some time on their MySpace ; new song “NASA Is On Your Side” is a product of recent album sessions so should indicate what they’re capable of spinning out over an album. Also, bear in mind that their debut single on Geffen will be out on 7th June, and their label are going to do everything in the power of their wallet to make sure that you and all of your friends hear it. And you probably will have by then; they’re now about to depart on the notorious NME Radar Tour. Notorious, that is, for making superstars out of hopefuls, and nervous wrecks out of people who should have never been there in the first place. Everything (everything) is about to change… Only the one bad pun in an entire post? I’m to have to count that as a complete success.