Across three albums, immense acclaim and intense adoration, the sound of Everything Everything has remained a volatile beast; a musical bucking bronco, their albums maximalist, frenetic, art-pop juxtapositions of R’n’B and melancholia and Afrobeat, of synths, guitars, falsetto. Critics have written of the frenzy of it, of the sheer sublime sweet sensory overload of it all.
Their fourth album, A Fever Dream, is a quite different prospect: a calibration of chaos and control, the result of a curious desire for consistency. As guitarist Alex Robertshaw puts it: “Our records have been many styles rubbing up against each other, and for the first time I wanted to make a record that was cohesive sonically.”
A Fever Dream is a rare and quite remarkable achievement: an album that is charged and political, that takes the temperature of the times, that will surely stand as one of the year’s most important albums, yet on a most visceral level is arresting, beautiful, tender, and thoroughly, irresistibly danceable. It is that exceptional kind of record that demands cerebral, emotional and physical response — as lead singer Jonathan Higgs says: “You shouldn’t be sitting down the first time you hear it.”TUYS is an indie band from Luxembourg with influences including danceable and catchy indie to more alternative rock with a harder and progressive edge.
The quartette has released two EPs and a few stand-alone singles. The positive response to the single consequently resulted in reaching the number four spot on Luxembourg’s national charts as well as in supporting slots for The 1975 and The Kooks.
This year, the band toured Europe playing festivals like The Great Escape in Brighton or the Dockville and Reeperbahn in Hamburg. After two singles released in 2017, their debut record ‘SWIMMING YOUTH’ is to be released on March 30th.