Everything Everything’s third album Get To Heaven represents life, war, and how everything came around. “I think you’d have to be blind and deaf to have lived through 2014 and not shed a tear. If you put out a record this year and it’s all smiles, then I think you’re a liar, basically.” Says frontman Jonathan Higgs. The album is primarily influenced by the horror stories of 2014, Shooting sprees, beheadings, ISIS, and general conflict.



The feisty primal energy of Distant Past’s falsetto soundings is (as said by frontman Jonathan Higgs himself) a “cave rave” in the sense that since time began, humans have always danced.

Track 4, Get to Heaven was inspired by the Australian coffee shop “event” earlier this year. It represents the terror in everyday life and how we simply live with war. The raw sounding guitar in Get To Heaven was recorded straight into a laptop, no amp. The whole album is raw and gritty, the only fakeness is the whistling in this track, which is apparently autotuned to a ridiculous extent.

The almost reggae sounding rap in the outro of the thumping verses in ‘Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread’ derives from an early 1700 paraphrased insult. “Stole the face that you wear from a craven baboon” Once again, reiterating the fact that nothing ever changes, conflict never changes.

Everything Everything claimed to have previously been overthinking themselves, as they also have with this album, but it’s certainly payed off. Despite Distant Past sounding overtly mainstream pop-ish, their new producer Stuart Price pushed the boys to try something new away from their usual techno sounds into a more world pop feel, they have definitely outdone themselves.