Albums
Man Alive
2009
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2009
By Ian Cohen
Reviewed September 15, 2010
Future Mercury Prize contenders continue to make it difficult for us to take UK hypes very seriously.
There's a recurring gag on "The Simpsons" based around Homer's gluttony leading to all manner of culinary curiosities: sometimes the results work, as with his patented Space-Age Out-of-This-World Moon Waffles (caramel, waffle batter, a stick of butter, liquid smoke); more often than not, he finds out the hard way that a combination of, say, Tom Collins mix, cloves, and a frozen pie crust is no substitute for a decent breakfast. Like that disaster, Everything Everything's debut LP, , is proof that enthusiastic experimentation can't save your end product when the underlying elements are so incompatible and unappetizing.