Everything Everything have released the lead single from their upcoming new album today (February 7) – listen to ‘Bad Friday’ below.The single is taken from new album ‘Raw Data Feel’, which will be released on May 20.
You can pre-order the album here.Explaining the meaning behind the new single and its accompanying video, frontman Jonathan Higgs said: “This song is about being a victim of violence, explaining it away through the gauze of a ‘crazy night out’.“We wanted the video to have a monochrome Ink Spots classicism to it, disrupted by elements of A.I.-generated imagery.
This reflects the approach to writing and producing the song – the minimalistic combined with the surreal and disorientating.”You can watch the video for ‘Bad Friday’ here:The group have used A.I.
to help them create some of the songs on the new album. They created a programme using “the entire terms and conditions of LinkedIn, the ancient epic poem Beowulf, 400,000 4Chan forum posts and the teachings of Confucius,” according to a statement.The result has helped to form the album’s lyrics, artwork and aesthetic.Alongside the new album drop, the group are releasing a new limited-edition lyric book called CAPS LOCK ON: Lyrics + Debris 2007-2022, via Faber Music.
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