NME describes Manchester's Everything Everything as a band that has "spaghetti guitars." I can't say that I've heard this description before, but it does have a certain ring to it - bringing to mind a loose, tickling, noodly guitar line, much indeed like the guitars that back Everything Everything's two singles "Photoshop Handsome" and "Suffragette Suffragette." The band overlays this with brainy pop in the manner of, perhaps, XTC or Pinback. They don't shy away from either lightly plinking their instruments, or leaning into them and ripping them a new asshole. Time signatures are odd, the vocals shift rapidly from sing-along-ability to inscrutable falsetto pleas, but yet it all comes together in pleasing, arty mish mash that improves over several listens.
Plus, "Suffragette Suffragette" and "DNA Dump" could well be about messy, fluid-filled fucking, or I could possibly just have hopeful pervy ears that are determined to make anything dirty. The former sounds like it either asks, "Who's gonna sit on your face when I'm gone?" or "Who's gonna sit on your fence when I'm gone?" Whatever it is, it still makes me giggle like a boy who just found porn in the bushes by the local creek. The latter, well I can't understand what the heck they're saying in this song, but it sounds like it could be about something gross. And though I'm not saying that I need need any pasty Mancunians sitting on my face - not today, at least - I'll compromise with the boys and let their tunes sit on my ears for a while.
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