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taken a few tips out of the Corbyn manifesto.

“With each album,” says the band’s singer/ multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Higgs, “We’re always trying to bring new people on board. I want people who may have never considered us before, or maybe dismissed us, to think, ‘Oh, these guys are interesting. I want to be part of that.’”

“It’s all about the swing seats,” adds bassist Jeremy Pritchard. “We’re all about the swing seats. That’s how you win an election!”

It’s still early days, of course, but the Everything Everything campaign manifesto clearly seems to be connecting with the electorate. Their forthcoming gig at Manchester’s Albert Hall, at which they will preview material from their fourth album for the first time, sold out in nanoseconds (don’t worry, another hometown show “will be announced soon” the band tease). Meanwhile, new track Can’t Do, given its first ever play by Radio 1’s Annie Mac on Tuesday, has received a glowing response on social media. Everything Everything are firmly back in business; and, as Higgs stressed earlier, they’re more determined than ever to bring new recruits on board.

Of course, from the very outset, these acclaimed art-rockers have always defined themselves as a band that refuses to stand still. Formed at Salford University during the mid2000s, Everything Everything’s 2010 debut album, the Mercury-nominated Man Alive, quickly established their talent for sidestepping lazy pigeonholing. Influenced as much by Kanye West as Radiohead, Everything Everything’s music was not easily classified: rock and indie mixing with elements of rave and R&B, arranged in complicated rhythms, and all topped off with a gloriously jerky falsetto from vocalist Higgs.

Seven years on from their debut, not only have Everything Everything’s records gotten weirder and more adventurous, but lyrically, the band’s role as angry social commentators has become more pronounced also.

Written against the backdrop of Brexit and Trump, the band’s fourth record, A Fever Dream (produced by James Ford), released in August,