Re-Animator

Re-Animator (stylised in all caps) is the fifth studio album by British band Everything Everything. Recorded primarily at RAK Studios in London over a two-week period in December 2019 with producer John Congleton, it was released on 11 September 2020 on Infinity Industries, the band's own imprint. The tracks "In Birdsong", "Arch Enemy", "Planets", and "Violent Sun" were released as singles throughout 2020 in support of the album. The release of the album was initially planned for 21 August 2020, but was delayed by three weeks due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recording and production Following the end of touring in support of previous album A Fever Dream, Everything Everything worked throughout 2019 to write and demo the material that would eventually appear on Re-Animator. The album was recorded with producer John Congleton in two weeks in December 2019 at RAK Studios in Regent's Park, London. The band's approach to Re-Animator was to record quickly, resulting in "a looser, less cluttered" sound "that heightens their focus on the fundamentals of songwriting". Lyrically, Re-Animator has a more introspective tone than previous Everything Everything releases. Freek Stoltenborgh described the album's themes as dealing with "wonderment at the wider world despite the horror of its politics; existentialism and the prolonged, if fading, youthfulness of being in a touring band, and the ominous threat of climate change. All things which contribute to a sense of one door closing while another awaits".