Everything Everything Share Video for new song “The End of the Contender”
Mountainhead Out March 1st via BMG
February 02, 2024
Photo: Steve Gullick
British art-rockers Everything Everything release new album, Mountainhead, on March 1 via BMG. Now they've shared their third single, “The End of the Contender,” via a music video. Kit Monteith directed the video. Check it out below, followed by the band's upcoming tour dates.
A press release describes the inspiration behind the song: “The song takes inspiration from the subject of a viral road rage video in the mid-2010s: 'Ronnie Pickering,' a man who rose to (a very specific) kind of online fame by persisting his own importance and threatening a fight on camera. 'The End of the Contender' is a piece that explores the strangely misguided aggression and delusions of grandeur that have seeped into the fabric of modern culture.”
Everything Everything features frontman Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard (bass, keyboards), Michael Spearman (drums) and Alex Robertshaw (lead guitar, keyboards).
Previously the band shared Mountainheadhis first single, “Cold Reactor”, via a music video. “Cold Reactor” was one of the songs of the week. They then shared his second single, “The Mad Stone,” which was also on our song of the week list.
Mountainhead is the quick sequel to 2022 Sense of raw data, which was an album created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Produced by Robertshaw Mountainhead with his producing partner Tom Fuller.
Explaining the themes behind the album and its title, Higgs said in a previous press release: “In another world, society has built an immense mountain. To make the mountain bigger, they have to make the hole they live in deeper and deeper. All society is built around the creation of the mountain, and a mountain religion dominates every thought. At the top of the mountain is rumored to be a huge mirror that reflects endlessly repeating images of the self, and at the bottom of the pit is a giant golden snake that is the ultimate fear of all believers. A “Mountainhead” is one who believes that the mountain must grow no matter the cost, and no matter how terrible it is to live in the big pit. The higher the mountain, the deeper the hole.”
Read our My Firsts interview on Everything Everything for 2022.
Watch the fourth episode of our series Under the radar podcast, where we talk to Jonathan Higgs.
Read our COVID-19 quarantine check-in interview with Higgs.
Everything Everything 2024 tour Dates:
February 26 – Stockport Plaza, Stockport, UK
February 27 – Network, Sheffield, UK
March 1 – Pryzm, Kingston upon Thames, UK (SOLD OUT)
March 2 – Rough Trade East, London England (SOLD OUT)
March 3 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK (SOLD OUT)
March 4 – Jacaranda, Liverpool, UK – Evening Show (JUST ADDED)
March 4 – Jacaranda, Liverpool, UK – Evening Show (SOLD OUT)
March 6 – Assai Records, Glasgow (signing only)
March 6 – Assai Records, Edinburgh, UK
March 7 – Boiler Shop, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
March 26 – SWG3 Galvanizers, Glasgow UK
March 27 – Stylus, Leeds UK (SOLD OUT)
29 March – New Century Hall, Manchester UK (SOLD OUT)
March 30 – New Century Hall, Manchester UK (SOLD OUT)
March 31 – De LA Warr Pavillion, Bexhill UK
2 April – Cambridge Junction, Cambridge UK (SOLD OUT)
April 4 – Rock City, Nottingham UK (SOLD OUT)
April 5 – Troxy, London UK (SOLD OUT)
April 6 – O2 Academy, Bristol UK
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