Get to Heaven by Everything Everything

Get to Heaven, the third album from Salford art-rockers Everything Everything, arrived on RCA on 22 June 2015, cut mostly at Angelic Studios in Northampton over the back half of 2014 with Stuart Price producing. It's a jarring bait-and-switch: bright, bouncing, hook-stuffed pop wrapped around some grim, anxious writing, the headlines of 2014 fed straight into the songs. The rise of the Islamic State, the media circus around Britain's 2015 general election and a run of mass shootings all left their mark, voiced as usual through characters rather than confession.

Radiohead, Suicide and Kendrick Lamar are the touchstones, and the result is a record that grins while it screams. "Distant Past", "Regret", "Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread" and "No Reptiles" went out as singles, the album reached number seven in the UK, and it was even talked up as a Mercury favourite before missing the shortlist altogether.

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