I care less and less, and it's worrying that I'm becoming desensitised to the sheer amount of horror. There's horror in our faces every day, and we are slowly caring less and less. where did I park my car?', as if completely desensitised to it. The whole idea of it is that it's slightly sarcastic, where I'm talking about really awful things happening - there's an old man burning himself alive, the streets are filled with soldiers and tanks - and the narrator/protagonist is just responding with 'oh. It has this central theme of 'rising above', and that's really where the joy of it lies. Can't we just go back to when all we had to do was catch our dinner and build a shelter? Maybe that's where we should've stayed - as animals. The main thing I'm saying is that I want to go back to before we had all this complexity. All these insane things still dictate who gets killed and who doesn't. I think we're foolish to think that we're somehow improving the way we interact with each other everything still comes down to this question same question of 'why can't you be more like me?', which is what all conflict boils down to, be it conflict of religion or conflict of politics. If you look back at people a thousand years ago, think how violent they were and how much we've learned since then, then turn on the TV and look at what we're actually up to. It's looking at the fact that history repeats itself - that comes up a lot on the album. It's something people won't consider for a second - that they could be one of these monsters if they were in different circumstances. but there are also bits in the song that suggest that in the right situation anyone would do the same thing, and that's really very scary, but I think it's worth saying. Basically, it's three times removed from the person who did the act themselves, and I'm talking to somebody - maybe their son has joined ISIS and is rejected from society or their wife has become a monster - about this feeling of not understanding why what is happening is happening, or how anybody could ever be driven to something terrible. It's written as a letter to someone who is close a person who's done something terrible. We spoke to the band's chief lyricist and singer Jonathan Higgs about exactly what's going on during their mission to Get To Heaven - after all, if one thing remains constant between the foursome's albums, it's that they're not the easiest bunch to decipher. It was produced with Stuart Price (Madonna, Take That, Kylie Minogue), and is a marked departure from it's predecessor, Arc. Written in 2014 in the wake of an unending tide of atrocities, the band created a blend of pristine indie-pop with harrowing subtexts about terrorism, politics, and humanity. This is pop music with complex narratives, and if the masses are willing to listen, they could be the band that recharges the UK charts with genuinely meaningful music." In our review, we said that: " aren't exactly at the vanguard of a rebellion as such, but they're clearly willing to start a dialogue. Everything Everything released their third album Get To Heaven this week, and it's emerged as one of the strongest, most vital works of the year.
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