Everything Everything - Regret

Summer’s so very nearly almost here - and we all know what that means. For many, it’s the season of exams. You’ve been revising all day - reading doorstep-sized books, writing them out, and covering your room in mind maps and post-it notes. All that effort, and NOTHING’S going in!

Luckily Everything Everything aren’t here to give you the mind-numbing relief you think you want. Instead, in an eat-your-greens kind of way, EE are serving up the mind-bending rubix-cube pop we’ve come to trust them for. Speaking to Annie Mac for last night’s Hottest Record premiere, Jonathan Higgs said “we wanted to make something lively and aggressive, and not sit down and mope about it.” They wanted to make something, he added, that would make listeners “pull their hair out”. Neither’s a good reaction to revision, but, let’s face it, ‘Regret’s an unbeatable soundtrack. It’s just one of many sides to their next quicksilver full-length ‘Get to Heaven’, and an indication of how sprawlingly creative it will be.

At the centre of it all, Higgs’ soaring croon bridges the gap between R. Kelly and Aled Jones, winding up somewhere unconventionally beautiful. That’s before even he’s tried his hand at evil ‘Thriller’-style laughter. It’s not easy listening, but you won’t need a post-it note to get this stuck in your head.