Something for Everybody (Devo album)
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| Studio album by Devo | ||||
| Released | June 15, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | July 2007–mid-2009 | |||
| Studio | Mutato Muzika, West Hollywood, California | |||
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| Length | 37:50 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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| Pitchfork Media | (6.6/10) |
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| Compilation album by Devo | |
| Released | July 23, 2013 |
| Studio | Mutato Muzika, West Hollywood, California |
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| Length | 32:52 |
| Label | Booji Boy |
Something for Everybody is the ninth studio album by the American new wave band Devo. It was originally released in June 2010, being their first studio album in two decades, since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps, on their original label Warner Bros., which was their first issued on that label since their sixth studio album Shout in 1984. The album was recorded between July 2007 and mid-2009, at Mutato Muzika, in West Hollywood, California. The album is the last Devo album to feature Bob Casale, who died in February 2014.
The album cover depicts a woman the band refers to as the "Sexy Candy Dome Girl", (Russian model and musician Natasha Romanova of the band Discrete Encounter) holding a miniature blue energy dome to her mouth.
Though a new Devo album had been considered as far back as the band's 1996 reunion, efforts by Devo's co-founder and bass guitarist Gerald Casale to get one off the ground were repeatedly unsuccessful. Devo produced some new material in the late 1990s and early 2000s, mostly for soundtracks and commercials, and toured regularly, but a new album had not been forthcoming. In interviews, Casale described the situation as "a cocoon of silence" and his solo project Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers was an attempt to spawn new Devo material. However, following the 2007 release of the non-album single "Watch Us Work It," Casale indicated that the band might be ready to work on a new album. That same year, LA Weekly, in an article on lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh's production studio Mutato Muzika, reported that, "After touring sporadically over the past decade but not releasing any new material, Devo are spending December at Mutato trying to create an album’s worth of new material and contemplating a method of dispersal in the post-record-company world."
In a later interview, Mark Mothersbaugh revealed a song title from the in-progress album ("Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)"), but hopes were briefly deflated when Jerry stated that Mark had "killed the project" and that there would be no new Devo album. Casale eventually stated that Devo would "finish what we started" and later interviews confirmed that Devo would complete their new album. The "Studio Notes" section of the November 27th issue of Rolling Stone stated that "Devo are working on their first album of new material since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps. 'We have about 17 songs we're testing out,' said Mark Mothersbaugh. 'We've already been contacted by 20 producers—including Snoop Dogg, Santigold, and Fatboy Slim.'" Fall 2009 was confirmed as a possible release date at the time.
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