The More You Live, The More You Love

Top ten of the albums on regular play at the moment. A mixture of progressive rock, indie rock, alternative and synthpop made by newbies and long existing bands.   Bastille - Bad Blood Big Big Train - English Electric (part 2) Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy Cosmograf - The Man Left In Space Dutch Uncles - Out Of Touch In The Wild Everything Everything - Arc Fiction - The Big Other Hurts - Exile Mylene Farmer - Monkey Me Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric

Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, 11 March 2013. I received the album Arc for my birthday nearly a month ago, and discovered their concert at Bitterzoet on the internet shortly after. So last Monday me and a friend visited a sold out Bitterzoet and saw Everything Everything in top shape. At a quarter after nine they climbed up the stage and opened the set with Undrowned. From the start the crowd was enthousiastic, as were the band. In five quarter of an hour they played a diverse set from their two albums, with a focus on their just released album Arc. The set contained most of my favourites from this new album, and I saw that I wasn't the only one enjoying it to the max. The sound was very good and well balanced. Every detail was heard and the vocalist Jonathing Higgs established a great performance. The band had hired an extra keyboardplayer to meet the standard of the album. It was over much too soon, but for sure they showed their capabilities. What a band, what a performance...

  It has been awhile since my last entry. already in March of 2013 but for sure I can tell I probably already discovered one of the best albums of this year. It’s called Arc from the Manchester band Everything Everything. From the start I fell in love with most of the songs after a first listening. Cough Cough, the opener is a catchy one this makes you hum with it right away. Kemosabe, the second single from the album, got a great chorus with mellotron all over it. Duet, the third single, reminds me of White Lies with beautiful violin support. And so I can go on. Other highlights are Choice Mountain, Armourland, Radiant, Don’t Try and the beautiful ballad The Peaks. The great thing about this band is that they’re able to give each song a different twist. At first you think you are listening to the next clone of Coldplay, but surely they are in a complete different league. Because they combine it with sounds and atmospheres of White Lies and Clock Opera and deliver it...