Everyone Everywhere – “Self-Titled”

Floating out of the City of Brotherly Love, Everyone Everywhere’s debut LP is, alongside “It’s Always Sunny…” and an Eastern Conference Champions hockey team, one of the best things Philadelphia has offered in a while. The album is a low key affair, but it manages to hook you quickly with a bounding energy that supports a simple and achingly genuine voice.

Everyone Everywhere’s sound is defined mostly by two dominating influences; the musical tendencies of The Promise Ring, and the vocals of Piebald. Brendan McHugh delivers sweet, thoughtful lyrics which echo those of the aforementioned alt-rock heavyweights and he manages to make it original by combining supreme hope and a poignant sadness.

There is no commentary on the human condition on this disc; no one finds faith, or love, or clarity; but through the examination of the mundane and the universally familiar tenets of your average life – small apartments, self reflection in dingy bathroom mirrors, and the routine of a grinding day job – Everyone Everywhere manages to romanticize the stringent reality of a normal existence.

It doesn’t sound particularly glamorous, but it hits you somewhere special; right between the heart that dreams of fantastic success and the mind that envisions failure. Everyone Everywhere nails the happy-medium perfectly and creates an album that, although slightly sombre, distinctly voices the hope and warmth of your average American romantic.  [ END ]

Track Listing:

01. Tiny Planet
02. Raw Bar OBX 2002
03. From the Beginning, to the Tail
04. Tiny Town
05. Tiny Boat
06. Music Work Paper Work
07. Blown Up Grown Up
08. Fld Ovr
09. I Feel Fine by Everyone Everywhere
10. Obama House, Fukui Prefecture

Run Time: 33:58
Release Date: 06.15.2010