℗ 2024 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
| Released | October 26, 2023 |
| Duration | 54m 46s |
| Record Label | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited |
| Genre | Alternative |
Mountainhead
Everything Everything
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Wild Guess
Everything Everything |
4:02 | |||
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1.2
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The End of the Contender
Everything Everything |
3:26 | |||
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1.3
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Cold Reactor
Everything Everything |
3:51 | |||
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1.4
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Buddy, Come Over
Everything Everything |
4:04 | |||
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1.5
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R U Happy?
Everything Everything |
3:28 | |||
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1.6
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The Mad Stone
Everything Everything |
3:45 | |||
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1.7
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TV Dog
Everything Everything |
2:09 | |||
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1.8
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Canary
Everything Everything |
4:22 | |||
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1.9
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Don't Ask Me To Beg
Everything Everything |
4:13 | |||
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1.10
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Enter the Mirror
Everything Everything |
3:42 | |||
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1.11
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Your Money, My Summer
Everything Everything |
3:14 | |||
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1.12
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Dagger's Edge
Everything Everything |
3:43 | |||
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1.13
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City Song
Everything Everything |
5:53 | |||
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1.14
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The Witness
Everything Everything |
4:54 |
Mountainhead is the seventh studio album by British band Everything Everything. Their third release in the span of two years, following Raw Data Feel in 2022 and a reissue of their debut album Man Alive in 2023, Everything Everything announced Mountainhead on 26 October 2023. The band wrote, recorded and produced the project in Stockport with the help of guitarist Alex Robertshaw. As opposed to their previous album which made use of Artificial intelligence to create content, Mountainhead entirely avoids "plug-ins and effects". The "synthetic pop album" explores "notions of capitalism and social fracturing" from a futuristic point of view.
Lead vocalist Jonathan Higgs explained that the album revolves around a simple concept, taking place in a fictional world "wherein all of society is consumed with the building of a giant mountain". However, the twist in the story is that the people would have to dig a deep hole and live in it in order to build the mountain. Furthermore, at the bottom of the pit lives a giant golden snake that they have to escape. It represents an "alternate society" where those at the bottom have to work relentlessly to keep the elite "elevated". According to Higgs, the goal was to create "an easy but strong metaphor" that can apply to multiple things. To him, a "mountainhead" signifies an individual that believes in continuous growth of a mountain "no matter the cost, and no matter how terrible it is to dwell in the great pit".
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited Studio Masters
Tracks 1-14 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1-14 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.42 -1.31 to -0.31 | -11.61 -14.22 to -10.47 | -9.10 -11.10 to -7.80 | 6 5 to 9 | |
| 1 | Wild Guess | -0.31 | -11.25 | -8.6 | 6 |
| 2 | The End of the Contender | -0.31 | -10.93 | -8.6 | 6 |
| 3 | Cold Reactor | -0.31 | -10.60 | -7.8 | 5 |
| 4 | Buddy, Come Over | -0.31 | -11.71 | -9.2 | 6 |
| 5 | R U Happy? | -0.31 | -11.52 | -9.0 | 6 |
| 6 | The Mad Stone | -0.31 | -11.94 | -8.9 | 7 |
| 7 | TV Dog | -0.81 | -14.22 | -11.1 | 9 |
| 8 | Canary | -0.31 | -11.25 | -9.1 | 5 |
| 9 | Don't Ask Me To Beg | -1.31 | -11.89 | -10.2 | 6 |
| 10 | Enter the Mirror | -0.31 | -11.48 | -9.1 | 6 |
| 11 | Your Money, My Summer | -0.31 | -11.64 | -9.2 | 6 |
| 12 | Dagger's Edge | -0.31 | -10.47 | -8.4 | 5 |
| 13 | City Song | -0.31 | -11.76 | -8.8 | 6 |
| 14 | The Witness | -0.31 | -11.88 | -9.4 | 5 |