A Fever Dream

Where Everything Everything’s previous releases were as bonkers-crammed full of a surfeit of different stylistic tics, flourishes, embellishments and more not only from song to song within each album but even in every individual track, here, a definite sound and style has been settled on.

Everything Everything continue to push their creativity and abilities as a group on A Fever Dream, shifting and adapting their sound while retaining their knack for melody, challenging rhythms and standout lyricism.

Just as the sophomore Arc was, this feels like a transitional curve towards something even greater. Nevertheless, it’s an exciting and very cohesive addition to an increasingly sprawling back catalogue. It expands an overarching narrative that becomes clearer, angrier, and more relatable with each step.

This the best front-to-back album that Everything Everything has yet crafted, a cathartic, exciting art-pop record that resonates in the brain, heart and tapping toes. [Jul - Aug 2017, p.56]

Musically, there’s a playful restlessness throughout, with rock and electronica constantly being twisted into imaginative shapes.

Bold, uncompromising and totally EE, A Fever Dream further cements the idea that the Manchester outfit will one day be considered as one of art-pop’s true greats.

It’s an intense, dizzy trip that takes quite some digesting, but with brilliant results.

Everything Everything return with Fever Dream, a brave, boundary pushing album which shows many of their peers how things should be done.

A Fever Dream is by far the most focused, making good on frontman Jonathan Higgs’ recent claim to NME that the songs “need each other”.

Altogether, A Fever Dream is confrontational, warped, emotionally and aurally high-contrast, and full of turmoil, but reliable in its infectiousness.

In its subtler, more sophisticated moments, A Fever Dream is an astounding album: anxiety-inducing, perhaps, but also appropriate.

In the minesweeping of stylistic variation they’ve even ended up accidentally sounding like post-Absolution Muse on the harmonies-rich Desire. Despite this, there is still a wealth of texture and musical brio on offer here, framing the restrained development as a narrowing of the laser rather than a sign Everything Everything are hitting their limits.

This is potent, frequently explosive stuff. [Sep 2017, p.87]

It might just be Everything Everything's most human record to date. [Sep 2017, p.107]