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Feb 12, 2013Everything Everything hit their targets with aplomb.
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Feb 11, 2013Everything Everything have their cake and they’re eating it too--Arc proves that they can keep their zany shade of indie and still be taken very seriously.
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Feb 1, 2013There’s neither swag nor swagger here, just talent and a single-minded creative vision worth every gasping breath it takes to keep up with.
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013Arc is a missive from the heart as well as the head. [Feb 2013, p.100]
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MojoJan 18, 2013Fractured but never broken, Arc takes chaos and crunches it into a satisfying and surprising whole. [Feb 2013, p.92]
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Jan 18, 2013It feels churlish to criticise Everything Everything for trying different things, but all too often their efforts feel like lightweight flirtations with a style rather than committed explorations.
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Jan 17, 2013The way that Everything Everything play against the macho, aggressive posturing of contemporaries who could care less about caring should be their strongest calling card.
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Jan 15, 2013Slowly but surely, they are moving towards something extraordinary.
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Jan 15, 2013While certainly not the most sincere album around, nevertheless there is ingrained in its tireless activity a genuine passion to fight the loneliness of intelligence, of neurotic shyness--to fight an inability to connect with people, that condition exacerbated in the era of social media.
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Jan 14, 2013Arc is built with daytime radio in mind as much as the indie disco.
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Jan 14, 2013Another tour de force.
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Jan 10, 2013Inevitably, Arc lacks coherence; it's the sound of a band working out who they want to be.
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Jan 9, 2013There are songs here that comprise bite-size fragments of multifarious melodies, drawing on myriad influences. But there are also tracks that sustain one tune and tempo over the duration, where previously only three or four would do.
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Jan 9, 2013It's really bloody good.
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Jan 9, 2013Arc is an album with which deep engagement will reward and delight in equal measure.
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Jan 9, 2013It is the sound of a band working out what they are good at and turning the quality control up to eleven.
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Jan 9, 2013Arc sees a stripped-back, 'more accessible' band.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 36
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Mixed: 1 out of 36
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Negative: 2 out of 36
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