Everything Everything to finish new album in public in library

Everything Everything have revealed that they plan to finish their new album in a rather inventive way - by doing so on display in public at Manchester Central Library. 

The band, who released their second album Arc back in 2013, are currently hard at work on its follow-up. Now, speaking to Manchester Evening News, bassist Jeremy Pritchard revealed that fans can see them finish it at Manchester Central Library from 10 - 15 November. 

"Writing an album is often about putting things in three and a half minute boxes, trimming the fat, making sure it functions as a lean animal," he said. "But we don’t have those restrictions here, so were going to be unpacking the ideas without the restrictions of songs or radio to consider."

He continued: "We’re going to be working for two hours a day in the library in a glass panelled room so you can see in like we’re zoo animals, working on songs that don’t currently exist! And then at the end of the week, we’ll perform it.

"We’ve been working on this since April or May, and one of the things that attracted us to curating it was there was no remit. They wanted us to use the building in whatever way we saw fit."

Pritchard added: "As much as we can we are using spaces not associated with the normal library use: the lifts, the stairwells, the coffee area. We’re trying to design it so that people will encounter things - some of it will be ticketed, but a lot of it will just happen to you!" 

He continued: "We're in danger of doing both albums a disservice by having a kind of allergic reaction to them that then spurs you on to do something new. But then we are, we always want to do something different than what's been done before and we want it to be more quixotic again I guess."