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Product Identifiers

Record LabelPpek, Proper Records UK

UPC0805520240666

eBay Product ID (ePID)14061939391

Product Key Features

FormatRecord

Release Year2023

GenreRock

ArtistEverything Everything

Release TitleMan Alive

Dimensions

Item Height0.37 in

Item Weight1.00 lb

Item Length12.40 in

Item Width12.30 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks12

Tracks1.1 My KZ, Ur BF 1.2 Qwerty Finger 1.3 Schoolin' 1.4 Leave the Engine Room 1.5 Final Form 1.6 Photoshop Handsome 1.7 Two for Nero 1.8 Suffragette Suffragette 1.9 Come Alive Diana 1.10 Nasa Is on Your Side 1.11 Tin (The Manhole) 1.12 Weights

Number of Discs1

NotesFormed in Manchester in 2007 after Jonathan Higgs and Jeremy Pritchard met at Salford University; they were joined by Higgs's Northumberland school friends Michael Spearman and Alex Niven - High concept coursed through Everything Everything from the off: they unwittingly named themselves after a Radiohead song (in the manner that that band named themselves after a Talking Heads song); soon there was a great deal of record company interest in their work - Niven left the group to take his doctorate at Oxford and was replaced by Alex Robertshaw - this line up remains intact today. Working with Bat For Lashes producer David Kosten (aka Faultline), the recording of Man Alive was completed mainly in a chapel in North Wales. The album sounded unique. Nothing dates like the future, yet Man Alive sounds dateless, placeless, and as a result, stands up perfectly many years later. Man Alive was only the beginning of the group's adventures in - to use their words - 'Mismatched styles of music mashed together. ' The result is often exhilarating; there are Brazilian drums and a prog guitar breakdown in Schoolin', classical influences, as well. It's subject matter is often way outside the realms of conventional songwriting; MY KZ, UR BF explored the different Americas: the cosy self-centred domesticity of programmes such as Friends versus a foreign policy based on killing; Qwerty Finger examines imperialism. Anglo Saxon guilt is also present. The album's artwork was striking - a photograph of a fox by Swiss photographer, Laurent Geslin, reflecting the track Tin (The Manhole) which deals with the theme of depression, through, as the band said in 2010, "the story of an urban fox that ingests all our pollution and grows massively in a sort of dream sequence. We chose photos of an urban fox for this reason, but we partly attacked the code of the digital image to create a glitch distortion. . . a reference to digital manipulation and chaos as well as our modern lives online". The original LP edition of the album is super- scarce, released before the 'vinyl revival' kicked in, hence the original pressing now selling in the high three figures. This re- issue is presented with scrupulous attention to the detail of the original UK first pressing, complete with gatefold sleeve, poster and 8 page booklet. It is pressed on 140gm vinyl.