Everything Everything: British Music Abroad

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Everything Everything released their first single “Suffragette Suffragette” on 1 December 2008[2] through XL Recordings as a limited 7″ vinyl release only. Later, followed by the release of single “Photoshop Handsome” on 25 May 2009.[3] Available only as a limited 7″ single. Autumn 2009, the band then released “My Kz, Ur Bf” as another Vinyl-only release, this time with the record label Young & Lost Club.[4] All three singles were released with accompanying music videos, “Suffragette Suffragette” and “Photoshop Handsome” made entirely by the band themselves.[5]

Everything Everything made the longist of the BBC Sound of 2010 on 7 December 2009, a poll created each year predicting artists that will rise in the forthcoming year.[6] Up against acts such as Ellie Goulding, Giggs and The Drums, although they failed to make it into the shortlist.

Not long after the nomination for Sound of 2010, Everything Everything signed to record label Geffen before releasing the single “Schoolin'” on 10 June 2010[7] as a CD single, digital download and also as a 7″ Vinyl. The single became the first to make an impact on the charts, debuting at number 152. The debut album, entitled Man Alive was confirmed for a release on 30 August 2010 and was to be preceded by a reissue of the single “My Kz, Ur Bf”; which was re-released on 23 August 2010, debuting on the UK Singles Chart at number 121. The album was then released a week later, debuting on the UK Albums Chart at number 17; receiving high praise from the BBC.[8] On 19 July 2011 ‘Man Alive’ was shortlisted for the 2011 ‘Mercury Prize’. The band supported Snow Patrol in February 2012 on their Fallen Empires UK Arena tour.

They began recording of their second album in February 2012.