After years of hiatus, finally Bombay Bicycle Club has gotten back together and launched the new album called Everything Else Has Gone Wrong on 17 January 2020. This new album explains that they want to show every idea as much as possible. Especially after their hiatus, now they have grown up and more secure within themselves rather than their hiatus in 2016. Some of the songs have a general feeling of anxiety about climate change and this album also makes a positive, optimistic statement about the future.
Since the very beginning, Bombay Bicycle Club started as a post-punk band who was jamming their first album “I had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose” at the pub in 2009. Then, their next album “Flaws” is turning to be more into folk. Their third album “A Different Kind of Fix” launched in 2011, this album sounds like more into alternative rock. In 2014, they launched “So Long, See You Tomorrow” and have a kind of electronic music vibes on it.
Now, their newest album is actually started when they want to do a 10th anniversary of their debut album. They thought the hiatus was a good decision and it was healthy for the band as they have played together since school. This album sounds to be more confident, although the lyrics remain introverted. Even the band said that this album indicates of “music in a time of crisis”. Many of the songs on the album described as someone who dealing their personal issue. However, one song that sounds like their previous album is “Is It Real” where the music is written to be sing together and the music video is all about the nostalgia where everything was started.
Check out their music video “Is It Real” to bring back all the memories:
After more than 10 years together, they proved that they are still going strong as the band. Although they have those rough times, but they will always come back together and enjoy their festival and live music together as a band. During their hiatus, the band all members were doing their self-project. Jack Steadman, the vocalist, started his project Mr Jukes where he developed his love in Jazz. The bassists, Ed Nash, also did his project Toothless with the drummers, Suren de Saram, where they played an alt-pop music on this project. Jamie MacColl, the guitarist, launched a campaign about Brexit negotiation and also took his study at King’s College in War Studies before making a protest music documentary for the BBC.
These are 11 songs that you can listen to on the album Everything Else Has Gone Wrong:
1. Get Up
2. Is It Real
3. Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
4. I Can Hardly Speak
5. Good Day
6. Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)
7. I worry Bout You
8. People People
9. Do You Feel Loved?
10. Let You go
11. Racing Stripes
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