Man Alive is the debut album by British band Everything Everything

Everything Everything

Everything Everything are a British indie band that formed in late 2007, originate from Newcastle, Kent and Guernsey, and reside in Manchester. The band rose to fame when they were revealed as part of the BBC's Sound of 2010 poll on 7 December 2009...

. It was released on 27 August 2010 as a CD single

CD single

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, digital download

Music download

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 and vinyl

Gramophone record

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. On 5 September 2010, the album debuted on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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 at number 17.
British magazine The Fly

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 declared it the 5th best album of 2010, while NME

NME

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 placed it at no. 43.

The album has received an Ivor Novello Award

Ivor Novello Awards

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 nomination for "Best Album", and the single "MY KZ, UR BF" received a nomination for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically". The album was also nominated to win the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize

Mercury Prize

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.

Reception

Reviews of Man Alive have been generally positive, ranging from very positive reviews to negative reviews, with few reviewers giving average scores. According to review aggregator, AnyDecentMusic?

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, the album received an average of 7.3 out of 10, based on twenty-one critiques. Another review aggregator, Metacritic

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, gave the album an average of 72 out 100, based on eight critiques.

Track listing

All tracks written by Higgs, Pritchard and Spearman. Additional writers are present in the writer(s) column below.

Personnel

• Jonathan Higgs - Vocals, Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , Keyboards, Laptop
  Laptop
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• Jeremy Pritchard Bass Guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Alex Robertshaw Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Michael Spearman Drums, Backing Vocals

• Alex Niven - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , Backing Vocals - My Kz, Ur Bf and Nasa Is On Your Side
• Matt Roberts - Trumpet
  Trumpet
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   - Come Alive Diana
• Charles Robertshaw - Saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
   - Schoolin

Release history

Region	Date	Format
Ireland	27 August 2010	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
United Kingdom