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Here Comes Everybody holds up as a touchstone for aching, atmospheric synth-pop, all slinky guitars, crisp percussion, textured keyboard, and limber bass. “This is a page from my diary,” Caesar begins on “O Pamela”, which has since been covered by Nouvelle Vague; with a guitar-and-synth intro that uncannily predicts Tears for Fears’ far glossier (and more commercially successful) 1985 hit “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, it could be the diary of more recent artists from Washed Out to Youth Lagoon, too. Nor is the album afraid of taking something schmaltzy— like the embarrassing Don McLean quote on seven-minute “Melancholy Man”, or the jaunty harmonica on heartbroken “World of Her Own”— and investing it with fragile sincerity. Expansively wispy, this is a record best heard as a whole, a missing evolutionary link between Josef K and the Field Mice.

The Wake: Here Comes Everybody | Album Reviews | Pitchfork

A terrific album if “atmospheric synth-pop” floats your boat. It’s a staple on my studying/reading playlist. Start with the bonus cut “Plastic Flowers” and go from there.

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