Everything Everything - Mountainhead

It’s album seven for Everything Everything, and somehow they still manage to masterfully reinvent themselves. ‘Mountainhead’ welcomes listeners to an alternate society which is perhaps a dark, cautionary glimpse towards where our own might head – one with an inimitably phenomenal soundtrack, it must be said.

Conceptually, ‘Mountainhead’ is a bid to get cogs turning and conversations started – where isolation might lead, our meandering away from the environment, how the internet seems to lead us down an unfeeling, disconnected path. Nothing is out of bounds here. ‘Cold Reactor’ begins to bring these questions to the surface, but to a furiously upbeat alt-pop backdrop. Eccentric and leaning slightly off-kilter, it is questioning and yet palatable in a way Everything Everything have always excelled at being.

‘TV Dog’ employs sharp, tension-building strings, whilst ‘Your Money, My Summer’ is pleading, its riff deliciously causing the track to ascend higher and higher. ‘Don’t Ask Me To Beg’ glimmers with a growling bassline, and in true Everything, Everything style, practically shape shifts. From dancefloor breakdowns to dark prowling grooves, it is nigh on impossible to pin down.