Everything Everything share ‘Enter The Mirror’ video and tell us about new album ‘Mountainhead’

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Everything Everything have shared the video for their new single ‘Enter the Mirror’, on the day of the release of their new album ‘Mountainhead’.

Watch it first on NME below, along with our interview with frontman Jonathan Higgs.The Manchester art-rockers have previously shared the singles ‘Cold Reactor’, ‘The Mad Stone’ and ‘The End of the Contender’, and now, with their seventh album out and a UK headline tour starting next month, they have spoken to NME about the concept behind ‘Mountainhead’.The album takes place in a world where humanity has come together to build a mountain by digging a pit at its foot, with the workforce – or ‘mountainheads’ – driven by a desire to one day reach the top of the mountain and gaze into the mythical mirror that sits at its peak.

In the meantime, as they dig ever deeper into the earth, the mountainheads live in mortal fear of falling into the trap of a Goliath snake that slithers around the bottom of the pit.The ‘Enter the Mirror’ video sees the mythical mirror made manifest, with the song’s protagonist, who is in the throes of suicidal thoughts, being portrayed by a marionette puppet, who finds solace in a friend that he initially dismisses as his mere reflection.

You can watch the video above.Check out our interview with Jonathan Higgs below, with the frontman discussing the inspiration for the album’s original concept, the legacy of Liz Truss, and, after their use of AI on previous album ‘Raw Data Feel’, how they feel differently now about the role of artificial intelligence in our society.Higgs: “Yeah, the song is about a friend of mine who was going through a bit of a troubled time last year and there was a brief period where I was really worried about him, I thought something.