Music: Everyone You Know (EYK Music)
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EYK are like Everyone You Know - if Everyone You Know has a keen ear for the vital sounds of post-millennial Britain, from The Streets to Arctic Monkeys and all hip hop points in between... and is able to mash those influences together by producing tracks in a bedroom and a garage... then top off those tracks with sharply observed lyrics and rhymes and bars about suburban heel-kicking and small-town raving... then manages to use all that to land a record deal within four weeks of putting their first tunes up on Soundcloud. Just like Everyone You Know, right?
Everyone You Know are Rhys Kirkby-Cox (24, Man United through and through, a young father) and Harvey Kirkby (19, QPR till I die, a young studio geek). Technically - genetically - they're half brothers, sharing a dad but not a mum. But really - actually - they're just brothers, best mates and simpatico songwriters who produce beats out of an Uxbridge bedroom (Harvey) and craft lyrics in a Sandhurst garage (Rhys).
Rhys and Harvey kicked open the door with last October's ''Cheer Up Charlie''. Five banging tracks and two pithy skits, the seven-track EP showcases the brothers' prodigious, self-taught musical talents and way with tunes that lane-hop and genre-jump with confident ease. They're the Playlist Generation, loving this and loving that and able to channel all of it - but here blessed with an underpinning of four music-obsessed parents/step-parents with record/CD collections drawn from the best of R&B, vocal house, Britpop, east coast hip hop, rave and jungle.
"All that," notes Rhys, "was the soundtrack of our childhoods." "And all this," adds Harvey, meaning burgeoning buzz and dozens of stockpiled tunes, "is all that coming out of us."
So 'Cheer Up Charlie''s turbo-charged 'Dance Like We Used To' sounds convincingly like Peak Prodigy (that's 'The Fat of the Land', released when Rhys was aged one and Harv was aged minus-four). Equally, 'Father's Temper' is Peak Massive Attack (on that one, you do the birth maths). But, brilliantly, it all sounds uniquely like Everyone You Know.
UPDATE: 10.29.2020
EVERYONE YOU KNOW (EYK) announce new single in the shape of uplifting new cut ‘LET A LITTLE LIGHT IN’ via SONY RCA, their second new release of 2020 which continues to tease another anticipated project from the band. Written at the heart of lockdown, the track continues to amplify EYK as an outfit who can unpick important and sensitive themes within their music; their frenetic fusion of punk, 90s rave and hip-hop fast becoming their signature sound.
Speaking on the release, EYK quote;
We wrote this song in the height of lockdown. At the time everyone seemed to be quite low and frustrated with the circumstances we were in and due to obvious reasons people couldn’t see friends and family etc. So we wanted to make an uplifting anthem, one of them tunes that makes you feel like ‘everything is gonna be alright in the end’. So lyrically we focused on that… the verses have that melancholic feel, but as soon as the chorus kicks is the track becomes this feel good hands in the air anthem. And that’s what we wanted to do with this tune, we wanted to make people feel good and provide a bit of happiness and hope.”
‘LET A LITTLE LIGHT IN’ continues a run of new music for 2020 - complete with a euphoric remix from eclectic Glaswegian producer, composer and performer WUH OH - and kicks off a statement of intent for 2021 as the brothers prepare a new project, new tour dates and continue to push their creative boundaries. Stay locked for further EYK announcements landing very soon.