the 1975

:D

lmao turrican

Yeah, did not like that at all. Covering a Sade song as a sad robot is a bad move.

yeah I really liked the album and thought it was a huge step forward, but this isn't a great version at all

here's an audio link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04tmqc4

good b-side!

reminds me of uwe schmidt's (very good) john lennon cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWvI2svwrs

People thinking the Brits have been "hacked" tonight

https://twitter.com/LaurenECull/status/834500890736345095

Turrican clearly hacking on behalf of the British deep state

http://i.imgur.com/nySwrXi.gif

I HAVE ONLY JUST FOUND OUT THIS NEW SINGLE IS ACTUALLY A GODDAMN SADE COVER. THEY DARED. THEY FUCKING DARED APPROACH THE HEM.

LORD GIVE ME THE CONFIDENCE OF A MEDIOCRE WHITE MAN ETC ETC ETC

lol

I didn't think the Futureheads desecrating Kate Bush would be outdone in my lifetime

haha i am not that outraged but it does betray a...... lack of self-awareness, or at least Sade-awareness, on par with i dunno chvrches doing a stereolab cover? you just don't mess, it does you no favours

or like...when chvrches did a bauhaus cover

Stereogum ran a whole article this week on cover versions of this song. They were uniformly awful.

I would gladly listen to Chvrches cover Stereolab.

chvrches doing "bela lugosi's dead" feels way more out-of-depth than this though, not that i'm justifying this cover to people who will believe me on that point

that chvrches cover is so bizarre, i had totally forgotten about it

besides which the "by your side" cover doesn't veer from the original arrangement or reconstruct it as a rock song a la futureheads, just sort of faithfully recreates it with saxophones and synths and i assume someone humming through a distortion pedal, w matty singing through a vocoder. the anger it inspires is just another exponent of the significant contempt ppl already feel for this band, sade injury added to general insult

though i guess now that they've trolled lex so directly they can break up

what's up with the posts in this thread about how this cover is bad

matty using a vocoder kinda subverted how i genuinely would rather not hear anyone but sade sing this song. it's like the inverse of bon iver's bonnie raitt cover, which is well-intentioned and intolerable

it's like they took the outro of "if i believe you" and made it a whole song, can't think of anything i'd want more in my life

definitely better than justin vernon's autotune cover

yeah uh this is amazing jordan otm

the idea that a band who pulled off soul so flawlessly on "if i believe you" hasn't earned the right to tackle sade does not scan to me

ok I need to hear that Chvrche s cover, and this one too.

their last album is still so good btw

oh it's one year old today!

is it just me or is "change of heart" super hats-y, especially the beginning

"please be naked" too tbh

yes to both

it's very easy to imagine a paul buchanan vocal over please be naked

has enough time passed for us to poll the album

omg yeah

i'm going for it

btw "by your side" still slays

slaaaaays.

sremms on 'perfect pint' is the only legitimate sade tribute tbh

n|a|h

so this band doesn't sound anything like I thought they woud sound like. pleasant surprise.

Beats 1 ✔ @Beats1
"The next record’s called ‘Music For Cars.’ That’s the title and it references our 2nd EP or our 3rd EP." @Truman_Black @the1975

read a report that suggested it'll be out later this year but can't confirm

matty tweeted 2018 a few months ago

yeah that's what i'm expecting. stereogum and a few other outlets running with the "this year" thing

but also matty loves to tweet numbers

oh yeah he says 2018 in the interview ffs

ugh

but i want it now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EBhaULToU

I think he'd previously said they hope to have the lead single from it out by the end of the year

true or false:

the current 1975 listening cru is actually the the-dream listening cru reconstituted