the 1975

Matty Healy picks his favorite '80s records (note: Contains music not actually released in the 1980s)

"how to draw" is another lovely almost-instrumental

my mum wants this album for mother's day <3

it's the best album of all time btw idc

& disregarding the acoustic tracks at the end is gross & offensive to me lol. they are ripping my heart out

"i don't like it now you're dead, it's not the same when i scratch my own head"

I'm a lesbian kiss
I'm an evangelist

i do feel comfortable saying this is one of the best albums of the decade

i posted this lyric upthread but got it wrong and it's even better than i thought:

"your brain was last seen
going for a run
and would you sign an autograph
for my daughter laura?
'cause she adores you
but i think you're shit"

I love it how their idea of stating that they don't care what people say about them is to make a high budget video full of negative things that people have said about them. Keep on "not giving a fuck", guys, but on the plus side I guess they've finally made a video with content that I actually agree with. No doubt there'll be a wave of actual good music coming along in a couple of years that will render this band irrelevant and knock them off their perch, and to be quite honest, I'm very much looking forward to that being the case.

we were due for another one of those

so apparently this isn't hitting spotify for a couple more weeks, UGH! is right...

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, February 26, 2016 10:22 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's on Tidal and Apple Music, though, so it's a good time to be crazy like me and use multiple streaming services

he's the thread's greek chorus xp

the sax sneaking in under the final chorus of "she's american" <3

Going to pat myself on the back for the final par of my review of the first album:

What first appears to be a weakness for the 1975 might turn out to be a strength. You wouldn't call theirs the most distinctive of sounds: you can point to almost all the elements of most any song here and tell where it came from. If that suggests there's still some musical character to be formed, it also means there's space to form it: they haven't got the curse of the sui generis band, condemned always to churn out decreasingly exciting simulacrums of their original statement. For the 1975, what comes next might be even better.

― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Friday, February 26, 2016 4:48 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nice. Agreed

also "nana" reminds me of "haunt/bed"

Re favorite 80s. He likes lillo thomas. Thats...of course.

Surprised he identifies Speaking In Tongues as indicative of the likely sound of their third album, it would seem like a diagonally backwards step to parts of the debut.

actually I hear "Pull Up the Roots" on a few tracks

enjoyed him busting back at miko re hats as album name

one of my fav moments on this record is when the trumpet solo on "if i believe you" like melts right into the synth going into the outro. that entire song is very dense but also sort of loose and leisurely paced.

overall it's such a detailed album

they put this filter on maty's vocals as it fades out

anyway im tripping

literally?

if I needed to trip it wouldn't be to goddamn Pink Floyd, it'd be to The 1975 and Reagan speeches.

if i'm lost, then how can i find myself

no im not literally tripping

or literally tripping either...

i think "loving someone" is the only one that doesn't really work for me

That's the one I've seen singled out in reviews, too, but I like it. It's kinda DJ Shadow-y.

the sound is a jam

"loving someone" is "so far it's alright part ii"

ie great but not as great

Loving Someone isn't the best on the album but I love the crystalline keys. it definitely improves on So Far (It's Alright) just by having something instead of a third verse

nothing on this album touches "Somebody Else" or "If I Believe You" and that's OK, but they kinda make me long for a whole album of their extended/distended torch songs

*nothing else

Had no idea "White Lines" used a sample/interpolation until checking out the "Liquid Liquid" clip in that article

"The Ballad of Me and My Brain" really is the best thing ever, perhaps implausibly.

otm

lol i love the early posts in this thread

I would like to thank Alfred S0t0 for seguing "This Must Be My Dream" into "Criticize."

^^^^^^

"the sound" sounds like the biggest thing in the world after the title track

in that way it sort of resembles the sequencing of the eps, they way they'd bury their big singles within ambience and suggestion

Nice to see Andy Gill in the Independent deciding She Lays Down is about an addict girlfriend, rather than post natal depression. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-1975-i-like-it-when-you-sleep-for-you-are-so-beautiful-yet-so-unaware-of-it-contradictory-and-a6897916.html

Ugh

OOPS I DID IT AGAIN STARTED PLAYING

i am seeing them tonight for their Radio 1 gig in Kentish Town :D

im so mad at myself for not instantly realizing how stunning "somebody else" is

i was in the sleepiest normiest bar & grille in a sleepy midwestern town yesterday afternoon that had a very innocuous top-40 satellite radio feed playing and "love me" came on

The 1975 will win the battle to rule next Friday’s sales chart, with Adele likely #2. Things may be closer on the SPS chart, but Adele will have to stay relatively flat in order to challenge.

The U.K. band’s laboriously titled, saucily un-capitalized I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it sits at #1 on the iTunes album chart, followed by fellow debut This Unruly Mess I’ve Made by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Kelly Clarkson holds the #3 spot, with Adele currently at #4. Stay tuned for updates; in the meantime, here’s how the week’s top two debuts are shaping up:

The 1975 (Dirty Hit/Interscope) 90-100k album, 95-105k SPS
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Macklemore) 45-55k, 50-60k

saucily un-capitalized!

im so mad at myself for not instantly realizing how stunning "somebody else" is

Easily the song I've replayed the most this year, with no sign of wearing it out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03l3894