Favorite Gentlemen/Sony Music Entertainment
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The emotions on Everything run incredibly high, but the music has gotten much buffer, due no doubt to the band's relentless touring schedule over the past few years. The shift also owes something to the able hand of producer Joe Chiccarelli, who made the Shins sound arena-sized on Wincing the Night Away and manned the wayward ship of My Morning Jacket's Evil Urges, which for all of its ill-considered moves, still at least sounded great. In one interview last year, Hull called Everything "Pinkerton on steroids," and while the latter is certainly true, opening track "The Only One" makes Manchester Orchestra sound a lot more like Kings of Leon's younger brothers...
- Pitchfork Media review
