Review Summary: When everything we love becomes a picture of a simulation, it wakes me in the middle of the night,
I love you like an atom bomb, but I've become a cold reactor.
Mountainhead is an accessible indie pop concept album by the British rock group Everything Everything. One of the most notable aspects of this album is its incredible consistency, with catchy synth backed hooks and dynamic beats spread out over nearly all 14 tracks. Johnathan Higgs uses hop-scotch lyricism to create abstracted metaphors relating to inequality, wealth obsession and self-reflection.
One of the concepts he explores is humanity’s desire to shed their heredity with animals and pursue loftier goals. Mankind tends to believe that it is surely distinct from other creatures due to our higher capacity for reason. We can write poems, do calculus, fly to the moon, and yet at base we still share the same biology. We have the ability to feel pain and pleasure, just as they do, and are often guided by innate impulses. This thought is captured in the track “R U Happy?”: “Dance in a skeleton way, Pain is a chemical, I Feel this incredible thing, You are an animal, you are not alone.” If you want danceable indietronica or eccentric 21st century reflection, then Mountainhead might be right for you.
