• Record Label: Tomlab
  • Release Date: Oct 21, 2008
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Under The Radar
    70
    Bookish doesn’t always distill Everything/Everything’s enormous amount of sonic ingredients just right, but when he does the results are magnificent. [Year End 2008]
  2. Mojo
    80
    This is a rariety--bright, soulful and (yes) clever pop. [Mar 2009, p.114]
  3. With the music provided by orchestrations from woodwinds, strings, brass, and much more besides, the feeling is one of playfulness, a resistance to and celebration of easily grasped pop forms and a sense that the world is there to be amused at and with.
  4. Inconsistent, but charming in places and insanely catchy in others, Everything/Everything presents Simon Bookish as someone to keep an ear out for.
  5. Yet, at its simplest and most sedate, Bookish's new work is utterly beautiful.
  6. Although it's unfocused by design, Everything is still unfocused. Which is not to say it's inconsistent: a major improvement in this regard over Trainwreck-- which meandered off into ambient oblivion on its final four tracks-- Everything is markedly well assembled.

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