Everyone an Army

We happened upon Everyone an Army from Scarborough whilst on tour with Hold Your Horse Is earlier this week, and were immediately pleasantly surprised at the quality of this trio. After all, it’d be fair to say that a bustling and vibrant music scene is not the first thing that springs to mind when you think of the North-East English town.
With some thunderingly deep bassy sounds overlaid by some seriously huge guitar, ‘progressive’ is probably the easiest genre to attribute to the group. It’s not as boring or predictable as many other prog-rock bands that may spring to mind though; Martyn Hughes’ vocals put the icing on the proverbial cake with their beautiful haunting moments on tracks like ‘Pangea’ whilst also managing to make use of the monotone qualities of Ian Curtis elsewhere on the EP. It pulls off the rare feat of being nicely balanced throughout, with enough to keep you interested the whole way through - even on the difficult first listen. Each element fits together like an aural glove. There’s an integrity to the music that’s obvious as soon as it begins. Look a bit below the surface and you find that there’s real intelligence and thought in there.. the EP being recorded in an old art gallery. It’s all very dark and interesting.
With the plan being for the guys to head into the studio again with none other than Justin Lockey of the now-defunct yourcodenameis:milo to record new tracks sometime in the future, you can get a free download of their entire 6 track release here*.

* http://everyoneanarmy.bandcamp.com - ArtRocket