The Rest - Everyone All At Once
AR0003 - CD/digital
1. Coughing Blood / Fresh Mountain Air
2. Modern Time Travel (N
ecessities)
3. Sheep in Wolves' Clothing
4. Phonetically, Phonetically
5. Apples & Allergies
6. Drinking Again
7. Blossom Babies Part Two
8. Walk on Water (Auspicious Beginnings)
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Everything All at Once
a) The Last Great Cocoa Owl Job
b) In My Attic, Souvenirs
The Sophomore album from The Rest, Everyone All At Once was written and arranged during several trips into the northern woods of Ontario. After months of writing, the seven piece returned to the city/suburbs to try and capture the fruits of their combined efforts. The result is an album layered with expanisve and beautifully orchestrated pop songs. Produced and recorded by Dan Achen and The Rest at Catharine North Studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Everyone All At Once is the fully realized sound that The Rest had spent five years searching for. Everyone All At Once is available April 21st, 2009 through Auteur Recordings!
Here are a few things people have said about Everyone All At Once .
"This album is just great all around; calling it a masterpiece isn't a reach. Calling them the next Arcade Fire , doesn't do them justice either. The Rest, with Everyone All At Once have forged a sound of their own. With a stunningly great album, they could be well on their to way to becoming the next great Canadian band. 5/5*****" AWMusic
“When at their most sonically unhinged, The Rest's music plays like something akin to the weirdest/most beautiful moments of a Michel Gondry film. “Everyone All At Once” is an album of great scope that accomplishes real beauty in both its moments of chaos and measured precision.” -- Captain Obvious
“Fast-forward to the present, and THIS is what we've been waiting for. Everyone All At Once is, for lack of a better word, a masterpiece. There are no weak songs on this album. That's right, there is no filler. How often does that happen?” – Pretending To Be Japanese
"If you miss "Everyone All At Once" you're crazy. This is Art! Without a shadow of a doubt. 5/5 *****" - giov www. indieforbunnies. com
“The Rest is clearly chugging from some musically-enchanted Canuck fountain. The kind that promises reckless musical abandon, and the sort of emotionally gripping swells that will have movie music supervisors come knocking sooner than later. Enjoy the early warning -- because The Rest will be commanding the next Canadian invasion.” – Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster
“Full of surprises, Everyone All At Once seeks to showcase the wide array of weapons The Rest have at their disposition. No one formulae is employed in this album as every track is different and beautifully executed!” – Rock Sellout
“I highly, highly recommend it. Throw in a little shoegaze, indie pop, indie rock, and just downright great songwriting and you've got what could be (and IMO should be) one of the best albums for this year. What took a year and a half to make grabs at you within the first few seconds. I can't pick just one or two stand-out tracks. All ten stand out.” - Eldur og Ís
“The result is a stunning record that no doubt will leave an emotional imprint on anyone who listens. From the more obvious melodic songs to the more subdued ones, Everyone All At Once is solid from start to finish.” – I Am The Crime
“Everyone All At Once is a super moody epic record that's soaring, melancholic at times, theatrical at others. It's warm one minute and chilly the next. It's truly a expansive record that Canada might have difficulty containing.” – Pop! Stereo
“Their sound is quite exquisite, and really something to be marveled at.” – Ear, Eye, Nose Candy
“Over the course of the ten songs, the Hamilton natives build and retract, surge and retreat with skilled hands in an effort to heighten the drama and excite the listener…the band's melodies move along like ocean waves. The smallest ripples stir huge crashes and generate immense power, only to retreat and crawl back to where they began. When the band hits on all cylinders, the energy of anthems like Apples & Allergies, Everything All At Once, Walk on Water and The Lady Vanishes is truly inspiring and invigorating.” – Herohill
“…stands alone in its grandeur and unique composition. Some of the best music I've heard thus far in 2009; highly recommended.” – Local Vertical
“Hamilton; home to electronica darlings like the Junior Boys and Caribou, and now the residence of one of the country's most promising bands, The Rest. The seven-piece's dreamy sound dials in the daintiest parts of shoegaze, sprinkles in the occasional rush of bombast ala Arcade Fire, and then lets frontman Adam Bentley and his falsetto skip across the perilous range of human emotions." – Junk
“A beautiful album. Imagine Arcade Fire, The National and Mercury Rev went into the studio together.” – Alankomaat
“An album composed of dreamy and melancholic pop songs, perfectly laced with just the right amount of falsetto, you float from song to song, unable to ignore the hypnotizing effect it has on you. Then, in an instant, it's all over. Leaving you with that yearning feeling you get when you have been abruptly woken from a great dream that has seamlessly carried you through the night. Fortunately, once you've stepped out of the dream world, there is a repeat button.” – Stereo Cupcake
“It's musical magnetic poetry! Everything you love about music is right in there.” – Tympanogram
“You know how the next brilliant, unheralded Canadian band that puts out the next gobstopping album teeming with lilypads of frog-in-throat tunes will always be hailed as the next Arcade Fire? And did you know how if justice reigns in the world, The Rest just might be the next Arcade Fire?” – Pirates of the Bargain Bin
“Everyone All At Once comes across faultless, I agree 100% listening attention is required, but as a package untouched by fads and trends The Rest are producing music with some refreshing eccentricity.” – Mojophenia
“A Masterpiece” –Indiehere
“The Rest's most recent offering is far more dramatic, melodic, and immense then their previous record, Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour. Adam Bentley's voice is mellower, more distant, more thoughtful, and more accurate; the acoustics and one-off guitars and thick, saucy cymbals remain consistent, but even here is a lurking, lonely edge, one of functional desperation and oppressive shadow.” – Kata Rokkar