Raw Data Feel
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Raw Data Feel
| type = studio
| artist = Everything Everything
| cover = Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel.png
| alt =
| released = 20 May 2022
| recorded = 2021
| studio =
- Eve (Stockport)
- Ludwick (Shrewsbury)
- Making Deux (Stockport)
| genre = Pop, synthpop, electronica, EDM, new wave, alternative rock
| length = 54:06
| label =
- Infinity Industries
- AWAL
| producer = {{hlist|Kaines|Tom A.D.}}
| prev_title = Re-Animator
| prev_year = 2020
| next_title = Mountainhead
| next_year = 2024
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Raw Data Feel
| type = studio
| single1 = Bad Friday
| single1date = 7 February 2022
| single2 = Teletype
| single2date = 9 March 2022
| single3 = I Want a Love Like This
| single3date = 28 March 2022
| single4 = Pizza Boy
| single4date = 4 May 2022
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| MC = 75/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/raw-data-feel/everything-everything|title=Raw Data Feel by Everything Everything Reviews and Tracks|website=Metacritic|access-date=7 July 2022}}
| rev1 = DIY
| rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://diymag.com/2022/05/18/everything-everything-raw-data-feel-album-review|title=EVERYTHING EVERYTHING - RAW DATA FEEL|last=Dixon|first=Louisa|website=DIY|date=18 May 2022|accessdate=7 July 2022}}
| rev2 = The Line of Best Fit
| rev2score = 9/10{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/everything-everything-raw-data-feel-album-review|title=Everything Everything remain peerless with the excellent Raw Data Feel|website=The Line of Best Fit|last=Bray|first=Jack|date=20 May 2022|accessdate=7 July 2022}}
| rev3 = MusicOMH
| rev3score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/everything-everything-raw-data-feel|title=Everything Everything – Raw Data Feel|website=musicOMH|last=Hogwood|first=Ben|date=23 May 2022|accessdate=7 July 2022}}
| rev4 = NME
| rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}
| rev5 = Pitchfork
| rev5score = 4.8/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/everything-everything-raw-data-feel/|title=Everything Everything: Raw Data Feel Album Review|website=Pitchfork|last=Madden|first=Emma|date=1 June 2022|access-date=2 June 2022}}
| rev6 = Record Collector
| rev6score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/everything-everything-raw-data-feel|title=Raw Data Feel - Record Collector Magazine|last=Curran|first=Shaun|website=Record Collector|date=23 May 2022|accessdate=7 July 2022}}
| rev7 = The Skinny
| rev7score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/everything-everything-raw-data-feel|title=Everything Everything album review: Raw Data Feel - The Skinny|website=The Skinny|last=Sully|first=George|date=16 May 2022|accessdate=7 July 2022}}
| rev8 = The Telegraph
| rev8score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/dave-stewart-doffs-cap-greats-lykke-li-done-heartbreak-weeks/|title=Dave Stewart doffs his cap to the greats, Lykke Li is done with heartbreak – the week's best albums|website=The Telegraph|last=Platt|first=Poppie|date=20 May 2022|accessdate=7 July 2022}}
| rev9 = Under the Radar
| rev9score = 8.5/10{{cite web|url=https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/raw_data_feel|title=Everything Everything: Raw Data Feel|website=Under the Radar|last=O'Malley|first=Gareth|date=6 July 2022|accessdate=7 July 2022}}
| noprose = yes
}}
Raw Data Feel is the sixth studio album by British band Everything Everything, released on 20 May 2022 through Infinity Industries, the band's own imprint.{{Cite web|url=https://www.banquetrecords.com/everything-everything/raw-data-feel/EVEV002LP|title=Everything Everything - RAW DATA FEEL|via=www.banquetrecords.com}} The album was produced by the band's guitarist Alex Robertshaw and Tom A.D. Fuller, and its release was preceded by the singles "Bad Friday" (7 February),{{Cite web|url=https://everythingeverything.ffm.to/badfriday.owe|title=Everything Everything - Bad Friday|website=everythingeverything.ffm.to}} "Teletype" (9 March),{{Cite web|url=https://everythingeverything.ffm.to/teletype|title=Everything Everything - Teletype|website=everythingeverything.ffm.to}} "I Want a Love Like This" (28 March){{Cite web|url=https://everythingeverything.ffm.to/iwallt|title=Everything Everything - I Want A Love Like This|website=everythingeverything.ffm.to}} and "Pizza Boy" (4 May).{{Cite web|url=https://everythingeverything.ffm.to/pizzaboy|title=Everything Everything - Pizza Boy|website=everythingeverything.ffm.to}} On 27 May 2022, The album reached #4 in the UK Album Charts, their highest-charting release to date. The album's creation was inspired by the band's experiences with artificial intelligence, which was employed to help provide ideas for song lyrics as well as the album's artwork.
Themes
The songs on Raw Data Feel deal with the theme of experiencing trauma and relying on technology to cope with it. Feeling constrained by his reputation as a "political singer" and wanting to "abandon the human brain", frontman and lead songwriter Jonathan Higgs envisioned a more inward, less sociopolitical approach by using characters to play the experience out.
With assistance from Mark Hanslip, a musician and researcher at the University of York's Contemporary Music Research Centre,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/18/confucius-beowulf-and-an-ai-called-kevin-everything-everythings-search-for-hope-in-strange-places|title='It feels like a fresh start': why Everything Everything turned to AI to write their new album|date=February 18, 2022|website=the Guardian}} Higgs developed an AI bot dubbed "Kevin", named after a recurring character in the album, to compose song lyrics generatively. Higgs fed it four different sources of information—LinkedIn's terms and conditions, the epic poem Beowulf, 400,000 posts from the message board 4chan, and the sayings of Confucius—before compiling and tweaking the results into usable material.{{Cite web|url=https://readdork.com/news/everything-everything-raw-data-feel-announce/|title=Everything Everything on their AI-powered new album 'Raw Data Feel': "I didn't want to sing about the same shit anymore | Dork|first=Stephen|last=Ackroyd|date=February 7, 2022|website=readdork.com}} Ultimately, the bot contributed roughly 5% of the album's lyrics and a song title ("Software Greatman"), receiving a songwriting credit in the process, and has also provided the imagery for the album's artwork and promotional campaign.
The band described the album's sound as "vivid, bright and spontaneous" and their "most natural and impulsive work".
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Raw Data Feel track listing
| extra_column =
| all_writing = Jonathan Higgs, Alex Robertshaw, Jeremy Pritchard, and Michael Spearman, with lyrics by Higgs and "Kevin"
| total_length = 54:06
| title1 = Teletype
| length1 = 3:40
| extra1 =
| title2 = I Want a Love Like This
| length2 = 3:27
| extra2 =
| title3 = Bad Friday
| length3 = 3:11
| extra3 =
| title4 = Pizza Boy
| length4 = 3:32
| extra4 =
| title5 = Jennifer
| length5 = 4:17
| extra5 =
| title6 = Metroland Is Burning
| length6 = 3:44
| extra6 =
| title7 = Leviathan
| length7 = 5:20
| extra7 =
| title8 = Shark Week
| length8 = 3:34
| extra8 =
| title9 = Cut Up!
| length9 = 3:23
| extra9 =
| title10 = Hex
| length10 = 2:43
| extra10 =
| title11 = My Computer
| length11 = 3:06
| extra11 =
| title12 = Kevin's Car
| length12 = 4:02
| extra12 =
| title13 = Born Under a Meteor
| length13 = 4:02
| extra13 =
| title14 = Software Greatman
| length14 = 6:05
| extra14 =
}}
Personnel
Everything Everything
- Jonathan Higgs – performance, art
- Alex Robertshaw – performance, production, engineering{{efn|Credited as Kaines.}}
- Jeremy Pritchard – performance
- Michael Spearman – performance
Additional contributors
- Tom A.D. – production, engineering
- Frank Arkwright – mastering
- Cenzo Townshend – mixing
- Camden Clarke – mixing assistance
- Jan Ashwell – mixing assistance
- Henry Broadhead – engineering assistance
- Martin King – engineering assistance
- "Kevin" – art
- Charlotte Audrey – design
- Jonny Costello – design
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Chart performance for Raw Data Feel ! scope="col"| Chart (2022) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| {{album chart|Scotland|4|date=20220527|rowheader=true|access-date=27 May 2022}} |
| {{album chart|UK2|4|date=20220527|rowheader=true|access-date=27 May 2022}} |
| {{album chart|UKIndependent|1|date=20220527|rowheader=true|access-date=28 May 2022}} |
Notes
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