As Everything Unfolds: Post-hardcore’s breakout stars on overcoming demons, new perspectives, and music as therapy
As Everything Unfolds vocalist Charlie Rolfe has spent a long time learning to overcome anxiety and seize the day. Here, she explains how coming out of herself has opened the door for international breakout success…
Words: Sam Law
Charlie Rolfe sways gently on her feet, a plaid pinafore, oversized orange tee and spiked choker contrasting starkly against the washed-out, run-down building falling apart around her. With back arched and arms and eyes aloft, As Everything Unfolds’ latest single On The Inside bursts into life in an avalanche of pulsating synths and crunching guitars, vulnerable yelps and predatory snarls. The young vocalist prowls the corridors and bounds across the wide dancefloor of its evocative music video, displaying the confidence of a performer equal parts Hayley Williams, Amy Lee and Becca Macintyre. Only a few short years ago, howeve
As Everything Unfolds Is the Most 2021 Band Name Ever
One week into 2021 and the year has already been rocked by tragic events, both in the rock and metal world and outside it as it pertains to current events worldwide. U.K. post-hardcore upstarts As Everything Unfolds is a pretty ideal band name after watching what has happened over the last year and into this new one, but enough about that it s time for some sick new music by way of Wallow, the latest offering from the group s forthcoming debut,
Within Each Lies the Other. Wallow is the hard-hitting fourth track off what has the making of being a promising debut from the U.K. bunch. It s a riff bonanza, never settling into any part for very long, which gives As Everything Unfolds a feral edge, especially as they sway from beat-based elements to propulsive aggression, tempered by a synth-drenched chorus and pained yet hopeful clean vocals.