the 1975

Hey this is really, really good. It's so crisp and spacious sounding. The singles remind me of My Vitriol's 'Finelines', albeit less noisy.

More than anything I hear the shoegaze (line of descent via Kitchens of Distinction, though, who were always outliers in their own realm). But yes, good stuff so far here; I admit the name put me off.

Maybe due to age/different reference points but I'm tending to hear things like KoD (and before them, Echo, a hair) as well as chirpy early/mid nineties indie pop on Spinart that wasn't Elephant 6. Stuff like Poole and the like. Not JUSt that, obv., but it's a nice riff on the whole 'big music' trope that has something more sprightly to it than a lot of other bands working out there.

I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City

back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcojLygGHg

i have had a lot of promo emails re this crew - something that always makes me suspicious.
clearly there is a degree of some major funding here.
so far i am still on the fence re the music : generic indie + current world studio tricks.
which is not a bad thing per se (memories of custom blue/south ... ) , just that i aint clicking with what i have heard so far.
in a few weeks they are playing a festival that me and the gang are off to, so that may provide more insight as to whether they are worthy of my attention or not ..

I'm going to continue ignoring any comparisons to 3EB so I may enjoy this band.

never heard any 3eb ...
clearly i have lived a charmed life.

nah, only semi

Haha

man ned i kind of want to convince you that you'd like the first 3eb record

I suffered through it and them being big at the time! Some things aren't worth the revisiting!

I still remember some comments around then going "Well think of them as a pop Pavement" and I'm all "...you really don't know me that well, do you."

"Pop Pavement"... I don't even know what that means

ahahaha neither do i, but i feel you ned

It was a strange time.

This music is so allusive of different reference points that are hard to reconcile together. Third Eye Blind, yes - the chorus on "Chocolate" being the other obvious orbital crossover point. Edward O says Robbie Williams for some tracks! Some of the more ambient stuff makes me think of A Mountain of One if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli. Ned says 80s "big music" generally but then also Kitchens of Distinction which I def. hear, and then makes me think of The House of Love a bit. But I also hear Placebo in their emoness and open searching for different ways to be big. And then of course (crossover) emo generally.

Also I don't think this is even out yet but it takes the nascent 80s pop influence to new levels, feels like something from a big Hollywood soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77_BS9Pww0

when i first heard "sex" i was like "okay post-punk bassline, crossover emo everything else"

yeah totally

It also occurs to me that this band could have played every night at The Bronze and handily catered to any and every mood required by the narrative.

I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City

back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track

Oh for sure, hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied). Was trying to figure out remember the sample source for that song you posted and figured it out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Gvptdghwo
which samples the last 40 seconds of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA

hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied)

The advantage of their heyday being a dim, murky horror of shitbaggery means I can listen to the 1975 without such trammeling, for which I am eternally grateful.

holy shit that's a dilla/laura nyro interpolation?

officially i think this band is smart as hell

lol Ned

The "Under our pet-ee-coats" line in "chocolate" is so well enunciated

http://i.imgur.com/OEngTOA.jpg

1. The 1975
2. The City
3. MONEY
4. Chocolate
5. Sex
6. Talk!
7. An Encounter
8. Heart Out
9. Settle Down
10. Robbers
11. Girls
12. 12
13. She Way Out
14. Menswear
15. Pressure
16. Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?

out sept. 9th. 16 tracks feels like a bit much. feel really bad for "milk" and "you"

I feel bad for everything on the EPs that was not a single.

I hope they don't deprioritise their lush romambience side on the album in a bid for UK indie royalty status.

let's do this

I hope they don't deprioritise their lush romambience side on the album in a bid for UK indie royalty status.

same. when i fell in love with "sex" i had a "what the hell is this shit" reaction to the rest of the ep and man i was so wrong

OMG every single thing on that EP.

I feel like we haven't talked enough about their lyrics yet. So many awesome moments.

"She should 'use your hands in my spare time / we've got one thing in common, it's this tongue of mine'"

"Drink, f**k, spew... telephone you"

i can't exist within my own head
so i exist alone in your bed

actually that might be "so i insist on haunting your bed" which, differently good

"oh well i'm coming to the end of 23," she said, "is that all right?"
"and it's coming to the end of you and me," she said, "is that all right?"
how can you complain about life and talk about being bored
if you just sit at pete's house playing video games, doing sniff that you can't afford

i was late but i arrived
i’m sorry but I’d rather be getting high than watching my family die

i could do this for a while haha

"Now I'm not trying to stop you, love / If we can't do anything we might as well just f**k"

""Oh I think I did something terrible to your body, don’t you mind? / I put your mother through hell, don’t you mind? / I had your brother as well, don’t you mind? Don’t you mind?"

(might be "I hurt your brother as well", not sure)

oh i was thinking 'bout killing myself, don't you mind?
i love you, don't you mind? don't you mind?

NONE MORE EMO

PUMPT FOR ALBUM

these guys were awesome live. they opened with "head.cars.bending" which i thought might not function live but it was massive. they played about half new songs, all of which sounded great, one of which kind of sounded like paramore's "ain't it fun" as performed by a slightly funkier blue nile, another ("settle down," i think) which gorgeously mined the same kind of gauzy fake u2 as "you"

oh i guess via setlist.fm that cute jam/lewis/blue nile song is called "heart out"

listening to the ep and yep, i'm sold on this - "me" is definitely hitting some kind of blue nile sweet-spot for me

kind of sounded like paramore's "ain't it fun" as performed by a slightly funkier blue nile

Geeked up for this even more now

re: "me"

The idea for ‘don’t you mind’ came quite naturally. I was i the process of writing this song and i found myself listening to that 10cc record ‘I’m not in love’. In that song the words ‘I’m not in love’ are used so frequently; as such a statement, that by the last chorus you think ‘….this guy is really in love’.

"And why stay if you hate it so much? You think you're well cool / You just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school"

Funny how whether or not a band could have played the Bronze is an instantly recognizable descriptor. (Although it also makes me feel a bit old).

haha at least by understanding you make me feel less simultaneously old/weird

btw they totally rerecorded "sex" for the album

https://soundcloud.com/the1975/the-1975-sex

it sounds... cleaner. in a good way!

idk i probably prefer the original tho

OG version is better but this is fine

Way back when my daughter bought a couple of tickets to see the Milwaukee show tomorrow. She can't go, so gave the tickets to me. I don't feel like driving up there, and people are selling tickets for the single digits (maybe in part because they subsequently added a Chicago show), so I can't get rid of these tickets, either. Oh well.

I'd normally be game but saw them the last time they came through. Hope you can find some way to use them.

As a lesson to my daughter not to just spend money on things she won't use.

this audio sucks but i love them playing "so far (it's alright)" ... a song that has a very special place in my heart for briefly imagining a collaboration between them & dj koze

So Far (It's Alright) Live in Milwaukee#The1975 pic.twitter.com/bsheSp3kWF

— The 1975 (@the1975) November 2, 2023

looking thru their setlist.fm stats & they've never played "the birthday party" on american soil. that doesn't sit right with me

they put out the MSG live show from earlier this year as an album on streaming

they released more tickets for their previously sold-out show here and ngl I was tempted to go but I really shouldn't spend three digits on a show that's more or less the same show they played less than a year ago

the best band

getting re-obsessed with “102” lately

and their last album is actually a classic I’m afraid to tell the haters. the lads had done it again and it was we who were ignorant

“Oh Caroline” is a huge jam

omg taylor swift offered them an opening spot on her tour but they declined I DON'T THINK I COULD EVEN HAVE PHYSICALLY HANDLED THAT BUT OMG IMAGINE

― uberweiss, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:52 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

!!

What is “102”?

a brief inquiry's japanese bonus track. just an acoustic ballad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrqm8F7TgM

matty wrote this when he was 15!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZvF2YEkA_Q

love this performance of this song

Wow! Great application of the "Being Funny" arrangement style to that tune IMO. The only boy band that matters, ha

new song from some Apple+ TV show is gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ZFDJgVa0w

i need an album by the 1975 focused in this vibe. unfortunately, that will never happen.

self titled expanded edition -core, nice

https://soundcloud.com/matty-452970975/loads-of-crisps

full release of a demo from the notes sessions that matty teased on instagram ages ago

yeah this rules