Everything Everything

Performers

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  Everything Everything

  Translating existentialist insights of postmodernism into songs by creating a completely indefinable musical style that is jazzed up into a pulsating, danceable, amorphous fusion – that’s something that Everything Everything have probably realised over the past 15 years more unflinchingly and disillusioned than any other band on the planet. Progressive indie rock goes shoulder to shoulder with alternative dance music, an almost mathematically achieved wave revival soars to bold heights on epic arrangements by four absurdly gifted multi-instrumentalists and flies to the peaks of contemporary art pop. With albums such as the globally acclaimed ‘Get To Heaven’ (2015) and the dystopian, thoroughly conceptualised ‘Mountainhead’ (2024), Everything Everything achieve what only very few projects manage these days: to create an entirely idiosyncratic style – unadapted, impenetrable, inimitable. Are you looking for a musical experience that divides your life into before and after? An auditory adventure without comparison? Then you have an appointment in Hamburg at the end of September.

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  Psymon Spine

  Imbued with a sense of disorienting euphoria, Head Body Connector embraces abstract pop as a vessel to explore temporality, togetherness, beauty, and chaos. The latest offering from Psymon Spine (Noah Prebish, Peter Spears, and Brother Michael Rudinski) comes out on Northern Spy this February and is a gritty, punchy, guitar-forward studio record from a band obsessed with production. “It’s more unhinged than anything we’ve made before,” says Prebish, adding, “Throughout the writing process, we were always asking ourselves how we could make it really fun to play live.” The end result is a little Sonic Youth, a little YMO, and basks in the glow of early 2000s New York-based dance punk and electroclash. If you were to ground it in something more current: Kevin Parker meets Spirit of the Beehive. It features contributions from Deradoorian, Liquid Liquid, and Sabine Holler, as well as recently inducted band members Zebadiah Stern and Sarah Aument.

  “Head Body Connector is our response to a world even more chaotic than usual,” says Spears, “and an exploration of the little joys, anxieties, and absurdities that world has to offer.”