It’s a song I quite like but haven’t managed to figure out why!…
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Iain Mew: At album length Everything Everything’s near-constant shrillness and hysteria can get a bit much, but that’s very much not an issue here. An unlikely croon is employed to fine effect, guitars bubble up and recede and there’s an enjoyable musical fluidity which adds to the mystery and sense of the out-of-the-ordinary they’re after.
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Martin Skidmore: They seem to be looking for a lively discoish sound, but besides the clumsily inept playing, the singing, desperately awful even by indie’s lousy standards, wrecks it totally. Are they a comedy act? It’s hard to believe such thorough incompetence is supposed to be taken seriously, but sadly what we end up with is the drabbest of Crossroads rather than Acorn Antiques.
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Anthony Easton: Is this a parody or just obnoxious for its own sake?
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Alex Ostroff: Everything Everything seem to take pointers from of Montreal – “MY KZ, UR BF” is structurally inventive and delightfully funky – but like Barnes et al, cohesion is sacrificed on the altar of experimentation. Still, the texture of the instrumental sections are quite beautiful, and if the off-kilter verses don’t necessarily hang together, the chorus is a masterful bit of art pop that recalls Franz Ferdinand and The Futureheads.
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Kat Stevens: I like the Futureheads-style quickfire vocal harmonies and I like the post-punk bassline. I even like early-doors-Coldplay guitar bits. The band themselves seem to be nice chaps. But something jars with me when I hear it all put together. You know when a song has so many things wrong with it but you LOVE it anyway? This is the opposite of that. Sorry dudes.
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John Seroff: Erratic, over-caffeinated, weirdly gentle, proggy, 133t-titled and smarter than it first appears, “MY KZ UR BF” borrows generously from 10cc and Talking Heads. There’s enough melody and variation here for two songs but Everything Everything are game to rush all their ideas into one crammed basket and clever enough not to bruise any of the fruit in the process. The monotone falsetto holds this back a bit, but it’s still a recommended addition to anyone’s September playlist.
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