10 Best Manchester Albums Of The 2010s
2. Get To Heaven - Everything Everything (2015)
A beautiful juxtaposition: violent lyrics complimented by upbeat music. Get To Heaven is a loose concept album on mortality, but is by all means expertly thought out.
For example, Distant Past is a plea to make a mistake right. While simultaneously highlighting that history is repeating itself, and the fact events will always be documented even if you want to go back. A cruel fact in this case represented by a multiple recurring computerised voices.
Elsewhere Fortune 500 is actually a thumping dance track about killing The Queen, with a capitalistic title representing the world's most successful companies. Everything Everything's earlier albums managed to discuss super-volcanoes and Photoshop fakery, but their third studio album's subject matters makes all of their previous efforts sound like child's play.
While the aforementioned tracks age better than tracks featuring political discussions of ISIS to the 2015 British General Election, the choice of the second single Regret being about mass shootings remains particularly chilling.
While Everything Everything's next album A Fever Dream would receive nomination, it is time to give Get to Heaven the recognition it deserves for slightly superior success and subtlety.