Accidental Brexit allegories: Everything Everything's A Fever Dream
A Fever Dream was released last month to a moderate fanfare from the Everything Everything’s dedicated fanbase. It had already been made clear by the band’s frontman, Jonathan Higgs, that the album would tackle the state of politics in 2017, making reference to the election of Donald Trump and the EU referendum in the UK. While the album has already been dissected with this in mind, I believe it is worth diving deeper to examine the specific allegories at play in A Fever Dream and what purpose they might serve. In other words, fair enough – the band is trying to talk about politics, just like they were, perhaps less overtly, on their last album, Get To Heaven. But what’s actually interesting is what they’re trying to say about politics. Any budding songwriter can write a song about how annoying Trump is – heck, Passenger went and did it , and who still listens to Passenger? Music, at least lyrically speaking, has more to say when it delves beyond the surface level, and that is exact