Review: Bleachers – Everyone For Ten Minutes

Bleachers - Everyone For Ten Minutes

Things appear to be looking up for Jack Antonoff, the band leader/frontman of Bleachers. He got married to actress Margaret Qualley in 2023 and his personal outlook on life is leaning towards the optimistic side on the latest effort found here. The fifth studio album from Bleachers, called Everyone For Ten Minutes, was produced by Antonoff, and was recorded during the period of 2024-2026. The record is reflective, as much as it is an observation of a band growing more comfortable in their own skin, and it benefits from the cohesive nature of the songs playing off of each other. Coming off of the success of their self-titled record, Bleachers sound as focused as they’ve ever been on Everyone For Ten Minutes. While the new album doesn’t have the “highs” of the singles found on the self-titled effort, it’s a record that is meant to absorbed as a whole rather than the sum of its parts, and it continues to show commendable growth in Antonoff as a songwriter.

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Jack Antonoff Talks With Rolling Stone

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Jack Antonoff talked with Rolling Stone about the upcoming Bleachers album:

While making Everyone for Ten Minutes, Antonoff was also working on Kendrick Lamar’s GNX and Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend. And though he often taps the members of Bleachers to play on his other projects, making them both band and Wrecking Crew, he notes that “there’s almost zero sonic crossover” between his own records and those he’s producing for others. The sounds and tones are generally not what inspire him, anyway. 

“If I’m in a room with Kendrick… I think, ‘Oh, the way he’s telling the story about his past is so vivid. I’ve been trying to do a story about my past.’ Or the way Sabrina can vacillate between the most brilliant, sad poetry and comedy — which are really linked — I was like, ‘Maybe there’s a moment I could put a wink in.’ It’s the broad strokes of someone’s honesty or artistry.”

Jack Antonoff Slams AI Music

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Jack Antonoff has shared some thoughts on AI music:

You don’t have to write music, you don’t have to record it and you don’t have to bring out the band and play it. And yet for us, the idea of optimizing what we do is a complete miss of the entire point of what compels us in the first place. We (myself, the band and everyone I know, frankly) have never been looking for this work to become quicker or easier. We were never frustrated by the randomness and magic it takes. We do it for that exact reason – and without the process itself ::: nothingness.

New Jack Antonoff Profile

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Jack Antonoff was featured in a new profile with ID:

Still, even inadvertently, I’ll discover by the end of our conversation one aspect of that “magic.” The new Bleachers album is laced with references to Qualley, and when I ask what married life has given him (a sense of security, perhaps?) Antonoff gently turns the question back on me, the way he might in a studio, luring a song out of someone else.