Raw Data Feel
Raw Data Feel is the forthcoming sixth studio album by British band Everything Everything, set for release on 20 May 2022 through Infinity Industries, the band's own imprint.[1] The album was produced by the band's guitarist Alex Robertshaw and Tom A.D. Fuller,[1] and its release was preceded by the singles "Bad Friday" (7 February),[2] "Teletype" (9 March),[3] and "I Want a Love Like This" (28 March).[4]
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| Released | 20 May 2022 | |||
| Recorded | 2021 | |||
| Studio | Eve Studios (Bredbury, England) | |||
| Length | 54:06 | |||
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Themes
The songs on Raw Data Feel deal with the theme of trauma and relying on technology to cope with it. Feeling constrained by his reputation as a "political singer", frontman and lead songwriter Jonathan Higgs envisioned a more inward, less sociopolitical approach by using characters to play the experience out.
With assistance from Mark Hanslip, a musician and researcher at the University of York's Contemporary Music Research Centre,[5] Higgs developed an AI bot dubbed "Kevin", named after a recurring character in the album, to compose song lyrics generatively. Higgs fed it four different sources of information—LinkedIn's terms and conditions, the epic poem Beowulf, 400,000 posts from the message board 4chan, and the sayings of Confucius—before compiling and tweaking the results into useable material.[6] Ultimately, the bot contributed roughly 5% of the album's lyrics and a song title, receiving a songwriting credit in the process, and has also provided the imagery for the album's artwork and promotional campaign.[5]
The band described the album's sound as "vivid, bright and spontaneous" and their "most natural and impulsive work".
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard, Alex Robertshaw, and Michael Spearman.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Teletype" | 3:40 |
| 2. | "I Want a Love Like This" | 3:27 |
| 3. | "Bad Friday" | 3:11 |
| 4. | "Pizza Boy" | 3:32 |
| 5. | "Jennifer" | 4:17 |
| 6. | "Metroland Is Burning" | 3:44 |
| 7. | "Leviathan" | 5:20 |
| 8. | "Shark Week" | 3:34 |
| 9. | "Cut Up!" | 3:23 |
| 10. | "Hex" | 2:43 |
| 11. | "My Computer" | 3:06 |
| 12. | "Kevin's Car" | 4:02 |
| 13. | "Born Under a Meteor" | 4:02 |
| 14. | "Software Greatman" | 6:05 |
| Total length: | 54:06 | |
References
- "Everything Everything - RAW DATA FEEL" – via www.banquetrecords.com.
- "Everything Everything - Bad Friday". everythingeverything.ffm.to.
- "Everything Everything - Teletype". everythingeverything.ffm.to.
- "Everything Everything - I Want a Love Like This". https://everythingeverything.ffm.to/iwallt.oyd.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - "'It feels like a fresh start': why Everything Everything turned to AI to write their new album". the Guardian. February 18, 2022.
- Ackroyd, Stephen (February 7, 2022). "Everything Everything on their AI-powered new album 'Raw Data Feel': "I didn't want to sing about the same shit anymore | Dork". readdork.com.