{"id":6400,"date":"2014-01-21T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2023-11-19T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:12:00","slug":"track-review-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/track-review-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"TRACK REVIEW: Neneh Cherry “Everything”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The hype for Neneh Cherry<\/a>\u2019s upcoming solo album\u2014her first in 18 years\u2014has been building for quite some time now<\/a>. As we near Blank Project<\/i>\u2019s release date (Feb. 25th in the U.S.!), we\u2019re getting another preview of the album by way of its closing song, \u201cEverything.\u201d The over seven-minute-long track is the slightly more subdued sister to the previously heard title track of the album, \u201cBlank Project,<\/a>\u201d with both songs sharing Cherry\u2019s primal energy and minimalist, slightly menacing production by Kieran Hebden (better known as Four Tet<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\u201cEverything\u201d\u2019s lyrics feature lines like “Got my fingers in my ears I can’t hear you \/ What I don’t hear, can’t upset me,” a visual that corresponds with Blank Project<\/em>‘s cover photo.\u00a0At other points it sounds like Cherry is sort of speak-singing off the cuff, with lines like \u201cShallow water midget mountain high\/ Beep me up trust me I\u2019ll hold you down.\u201d The repeating refrain \u201cEverything is everything, good things come to those who wait\u201d is often wrung into different melodies or cadences by Cherry\u2019s rhythmic, poetic singing.<\/p>\n

Four Tet outfits the song with a deeply reverberating, viscous bassline that contrasts Cherry\u2019s bright yet raspy vocals. If Cherry’s lyrics and vocals are the song’s soul, Four Tet’s production is its pulsating, almost mechanical heartbeat.\u00a0As the song comes to its end, Cherry breaks out in a staccato yell that soon turns into passionate, visceral \u201cyeah yeah\u201ds and \u201chey hey\u201ds, with some laughter thrown in for good measure. Her vocals are cut out for the last minute or so of the song, at which point it loses it\u2019s ominous edge and becomes an understated, twinkling hum before fading away.<\/p>\n

Listen to “Everything” below:<\/p>\n

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The hype for Neneh Cherry\u2019s upcoming solo album\u2014her first in 18 years\u2014has been building for quite some time now. As we near Blank Project\u2019s release date (Feb. 25th in the U.S.!), we\u2019re getting another preview of the album by way of its closing song, \u201cEverything.\u201d The over seven-minute-long track is the slightly more subdued sister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,638,202],"tags":[790,11,789,915],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NenehCherry_byKimHiorthoy4-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48499,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions\/48499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}