Everything, All This, and More is a collection of B-sides, rarities and outtakes from a band that only released one album -- 2000's
Revolve -- before calling it quits in 2001, a few years before many of the current chart-topping new-wave/post-punk hybrid bands existed. As such, songs like "Sex is a Triangle for the Perfect Square" and "Frontline", which would probably be dismissed as derivative or unimaginative if they came out today, must be assessed in the proper historical context. In that light, they come off much better -- The Killers practically owe their career to Beautiful Skin keyboardist Ross Totino's synth lines, while frontman Nick Forte's Robert Smith-aping proves that The Cure were a creative touchstone long before the current wave of British buzz bands made it fashionable.
Admittedly, this hardly makes Beautiful Skin sound like the most original band in the world; if you built a Frankenstein's monster-type creature from bits of all the bands on Gold Standard Labs' current roster (including The Mars Volta, The Faint and The Locust), you'd probably get something that sounds a lot like Everything, All This, and More. The reality is more like organ donation: there's a piece of Beautiful Skin in a whole lot of bands.
