Everything Everything Celebrate Mercury Prize Nomination with Free Track Giveaway
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Written by Rob Sleigh
Everything Everything have decided to celebrate their recent Barclaycard Mercury Prize nomination by giving away a demo version of one of their tracks through their SoundCloud page. The track is an early demo of their single ‘MY KZ UR BF’, which is taken from their debut album ‘Man Alive’.
Speaking about the track, vocalist Jonathan Higgs said: “This is a demo that eventually became ‘MY KZ UR BF’. We decided ‘AOYF’ was too straight and ploddy in this format and wanted to shake it up a bit by changing the feel of the verses. Lyrically, the idea is the same, only in the finished version I had to strip it down to the core of the narrative to fit. An early version of ‘MY KZ…’ actually started with a single finger click and then all of us shouting any note, which was held for a few seconds - a really horrible chord - then another click and onto the verse – “flashbacks to the time...”. Our producer David Kosten did away with this, which I thought was insane. But it wasn't insane.”
‘Man Alive’ was recently confirmed as one of the shortlisted nominations for this year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize along with the likes of Metronomy, Tinie Tempah, James Blake, Katy B and Adele. The winner will be announced on the night of the awards ceremony, which will take place on 6th September.
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