aaamusic | On 29, Mar 2011

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Rome, 23rd March

After listening to their songs studio version I prepare myself to enjoy the live of one of the coolest band of the moment, Everything Everything, nominated Best New Band at NME Awards and creators on the superb debut album Man Alive.
These four guys take inspiration from Talking Heads and Radiohead amongst others creating synth tapestries and harmonized vocals that realize estranging atmospheres. The venue is full and the audience is half-surprised half-enraptured by their bravura. People are really involved, the band incite them to clap their hands keeping tempo and they do it with enthusiasm.
Qwerti finger, Come alive Diana and Schoolin are a perfect trio to kick off the set, the band shows a great energy and a good harmony between them playing the most repetitive parts (thought to create a hypnotic effect) without getting tired but having a lot of fun.
Final Form creates a dreaming atmosphere, Jonathan’s falsetto, even if with little flaws, is powerful and sound, the tune is musically complex and it needs backing tracks, but despite this, the musicians’ quality is clear.
The moment of Leave the engine room reminds me a Jonsi’s extraordinary performance, the song recalls ethereal and mid air atmospheres, like a chant in a forest.
Jonathan sings very intensely and stares at the audience in their eyes and I feel a shiver down my spine, all the instruments are playing softly, only the organ sound is loud and gives a sense of holiness.
It’s remarkable that they can play more than one instrument, the singer helps the synth tapestry playing a Novation while guitarist (Alex) and bass player (Jeremy) alternates their instruments to keyboards. Tin the man hole after MY KZ UR BF is a perfect coup de grace, the audience is galvanized by one of thier catchiest and most known songs wonderfully performed and is ravished by its loop and the perfect harmonization between their three voices; the tune goes on followed by drums melting with various sounds, but it’s essential and shows how they can create great music without overdoing.
Weights is tuned on harmonization lines, even the setlist is thought carefully and it’s hard to believe that all these great songs are included in one only album.
The tune goes in a soft crescendo and explodes to let people dance, like they are just waking up after a quiet moment.
Suffragette suffragette united with the previous tune is simply beautiful, while Photoshop Handsome ends the set getting an ovation from the audience, but it is the prelude to a still unreleased song called Kimosabe, a solid and complex piece that reveals a new maturity for the band.
It was absolutely one of the best live of the current music season; catch them in London on May 12th.

Author: Roberta Capuano

Photos: Marcello Linzalone