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Everything Everything is an English band that formed in late 2007. They originate from Northumberland, Kent and Guernsey and reside in Manchester. The band have released three albums to date – 2010's ''Man Alive'', 2013's ''Arc'' and 2015's ''Get To Heaven'' – and have been widely critically acclaimed.〔(BBC - 'Man Alive' by Everything Everything - Album Review by Alix Buscovic ) BBC, Retrieved 2010-09-07.〕〔(Review of ''Man Alive'' in ''New Musical Express'' ) by Laura Snapes, 31 August 2010〕 Their work was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize and received three nominations for the Ivor Novello Award. ==Musical style== Everything Everything are noted for an extremely eclectic and dynamic style, with complex song construction and dense, detailed lyrics sung in falsetto by Jonathan Higgs. While nominally an alternative rock band with outright pop stylings, the band uses production and rhythmic approaches closer to those of contemporary R&B, glitch pop and electronica (including heavy use of laptop programming and processing) and songwriting approaches similar to those of progressive or psychedelic rock.〔 Critic Paul Lester has compared Everything Everything's sound to "a riot in a melody factory"〔(BBC Music review of 'Arc' ) by Paul Lester, 4 January 2013〕 and compared them to "Timbaland if he cocked an oblique ear to Yes".〔 In the Guardian, Mark Beaumont described the band as "the most intricate, streamlined merging yet of math rock's arch complexities, electronica's 80s obsession and hooks made from mobile phone interference."〔(Live review of Everything Everything at Village Underground, London ), by Mark Beaumont in ''The Guardian'', 24 October 2012〕 When asked about their sound in an interview with UK music blog ''There Goes the Fear'' in Leeds in October 2010, singer Jonathan Higgs replied, "We think of it as pop primarily. We try not to make it sound like a lot of things you’ve heard before, not on purpose, but it tends to come out a bit like that. We’re not really interested in copying certain genres or anything, so I guess you’d say it’s unpredictable and sort of surprising." Higgs has counted Nirvana, Radiohead, the Beatles, Destiny's Child, and R. Kelly as some of the band's very eclectic stock of influences.〔 Bassist Jeremy Pritchard has said the band's intention is "to avoid cliche, or the cliches expected of white men with guitars from Manchester" and sums up their sound as "highly stylised and deracinated – we're influenced by everything except 12-bar blues."〔 He's also commented "There are no genres I can think of that we haven’t learnt something from. We all share a huge number of basic passions like Radiohead, but we all come from different areas of popular music: jazz and funk; modern US R'n'B, prog and krautrock, post-rock/punk/hardcore. And we all love good honest pop. We’re a pop band as far as we're concerned."〔(Everything Everything interview in ''The Collective Review'' ) by Von Von Lamunu, 16 June 2010〕 He's noted that the band's lyrics are "almost always layered with several meanings, and play with puns, quotes or alliteration a fair amount, but never just for the sake of it."〔 In an interview with the ''Irish Times'', drummer Michael Spearman said "It sounds quite cheesy, but stuff like Destiny’s Child has proven just as important as The Beatles and Radiohead. I suppose that love of R'n'B comes through in a way. We don't normally say 'we want this song to sound like this or that', we try to be as organic as possible. It's like with The Beatles – they were trying to play the black music of the day, and by doing so, they sort of changed it, it became a different thing. We thought about... trying to get Timbaland in, or something. But we decided against it, because it's a fine line between filtering that music, or just trying to ape it by going to the source of it... We all love Michael Jackson and stuff like that; dance music in general, or just that sort of syncopated music. That's something that connects all of us."〔("Everything Everything: Nothing Wanting": article in The Irish Times ) by Lauren Murphy, 20 August 2010 (reposted in ''The World Won't Listen'' blog)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everything Everything」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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