the 1975

manchester band that fuse emo and post-punk tendencies and dip them in aqueous solution. they apparently had like five hundred names before settling on this one (which, why)

they've been releasing eps every few months since last years, with three incredible singles between all of them. another ep and album are out later this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Y2FVD5JVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBKqaVk2Co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDGfk0UJw8

this band is great

"the city" and "sex" are so good

haha i was like "only j0rd is gonna acknowledge this thread"

The City is a complete jam, had only heard that Sex one from the emo thread. I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City. Like if they would have continued to move their sound forward this is what it would/should sound like.

Well damn, this is something totally different sounding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpqLgUYBjI

yeah the songs on the eps that aren't singles are these slow amniotic things. there's a new one coupled with this interview and it sounds rlll good http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/exclusive-song-premiere-and-interview-fallingforyou-the-1975

yeah i like this side of them too

oh this is really good, damn

this is what i want james blake to sound like

ha otm

so the us version of the iv ep is just kind of a greatest hits, all the singles from their other eps. uk version has all the new songs which are pretty fantastic, you can hear it at soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/the1975/sets/the-1975-iv

this is what i want james blake to sound like

otm // otm

some of their lyrics are very disarming

also "you" is just the best song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6q-nvrIHXU

Pretty addicted to this bad at the mo. Much thanks.

band

Matthew Healy is the son of Denise Welch and Tim Healy.

Adore this band.

:D

my man

I feel like the refrains in their big songs capture something very OTM about being adolescent and willing drama to happen.

[this is what i want james blake to sound like]

They sound like james blake expiring?

I am basicallly 100% sure this thread and its contents are a spoof, no way tim f likes an indie band as basic as this

I'd expect you to hate them lex but "basic" is just plain incorrect (esp. coming from an xx fan).

I've definitely noticed a taste-convergence with Brad this year.

Still maintain that they're basically a next gen Matchbox Twenty, except from the UK.

this is an indie band? :\

agree that this is awes

Still maintain that they're basically a next gen Matchbox Twenty, except from the UK.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, June 16, 2013 3:03 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(a) this works for - what - two of their songs at most; but (b) for those two songs works in the best possible way.

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

Sep 9th is too far away.

this is odd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIhXi-yiw8

anyway!

oh and nsfw i guess. that was a surprise

Bout what you'd expect with a song like that I guess.

I struggle to imagine how "Sex" could possibly be improved on.

Kinda ridiculous how emotional I feel about these songs now.

#moremalenudity

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.

― Tim F, Monday, June 17, 2013 5:25 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok i am listening to them now

wow, "sex" is the shit

don't hear a ton of 3EB (whom i love) in them, but agree with ned on the shoegaze touchpoints. this is going to sound lame but the first thing i thought of was actually...glasvegas

Wow not sure how you can't hear some 3eb in there!

He may not have gotten to "Chocolate" or "The City" yet.

is "this is how it starts" an explicit ref. to LCD's "all my friends"?

i think this is merely okay. maybe it will click. i have terrible taste now "anyway!"

i have heard this

even through an extremely low quality stream, uh, album of the year

lucky

can confirm the guitars on this thing sound perfectly '80s sophistopop

this is a truly beautiful record that threads together most of the kinds of music i love

knowing that both tim f and brad are already holding this record up like a high school football hero has increased my anticipation by 1000x

If lies are being told about this record's quality I will have things to say.

ned i think you'll straight up love it

sorry for not being able to contain my enthusiasm for another month

V. good.

of all the singles the album is very much in the vein of "chocolate" so if you like that

aaaaah i can't wait until y'all hear "settle down" aaaaah

So I now have like nearly six weeks of hyperventilating to look forward to.

recent "acoustic" sessions have been gorgeous near-total reworkings of the songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVI2m_O1Tzs

http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2013/08/watch-the-1975-sex-acoustic-wonderland-premiere/

oof that version of sex is horrific

hahaha idk it reminded me of this, probably my favorite song off the facedown ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKZPlnvSH0

oof that version of sex is horrific

― max, Monday, August 12, 2013 1:24 PM (3 minutes ago)

my favorite version of sex, is the one with your mom

the guitars are nice but why is he singing it like that!

lmbo kev

ha but no i agree the acoustic version is kinda worthless, the orig is pretty perfect

ahaha i'm probably just desperate for them to release something from the album proper already

Is their any thing on the album that shows their more ambient side like from the EP's or is everything more in line as to what the main singles are like?

it's more in line with the singles except for "the 1975," "money," "an encounter," "12," and "menswear." most of these are really short

They should do a bonus disc of straight Wham!bience.

I prefer bi-curious Wham!bience

Selected Wham!bience Works

I think you mean "Selected Wham!bient Works, 8.5" - 9.2""

;-)

Besides the occasional Snow Patrol vibe that I'm a bit unsure about, I'm enjoying these EPs.

here's, uh, a remix of a song from the album https://soundcloud.com/ludmilla-santos/the-1975-pressure-bear-face

which i find really bizarre but okay

this is mostly unintelligible but dope http://www.spin.com/articles/the-1975-chocolate-video-acoustic-vagrant/

yeah that's prob better than the one i posted upthread

Not really paid much attention to the EPs, so must revisit. Just been listening to the album and some of it's brilliant – some really sharp lyrics in there. I prefer the choons to the ambient ones, but maybe I'd feel different if I'd listened to them earlier.

well, it's only the intro track, but http://www.hungertv.com/feature/exclusive-the-1975/

they premiered "settle down" on zane lowe yesterday; no one's made an individual soundcloud/youtube of it yet so right now you can listen to it here, about an hour and 45 minutes into the show http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038xp7t/Zane_Lowe_Angel_Haze_and_Earl_Sweatshirt/

ugh i love this song *void resounds* https://myspace.com/myspace/video/live-at-the-log-cabin-the-1975-settle-down-/109405268

that sounds awesome

those 808 hits

they also premiered "robbers" @ 47 mins in today http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038xq01

gorgeous song

I am getting so excited for this album.

Awesome. The drummer and lead dude look like brothers.

all these songs
so ridiculously good

i'm actually almost in tears help me
these are the best songs i've ever heard

haha otm

i'm actually almost in tears help me
these are the best songs i've ever heard

when i first heard "talk!" this was precisely how i felt

the instrumental section in "settle down" I AM DANCING AROUND MY ROOM THIS IS THE HAPPIEST I'VE EVER BEEN

you guys are killing me

which is funny bc my favorite part of "robbers" is definitely now everybody's DEAAAAAD

which, for ppl who can't be bothered to dig through the zane lowe stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buY9jJ4nqiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAx5-v80QE

M.O.N.E.Y.

https://soundcloud.com/the1975/money

??? There's nothing bad or offensive about any of these songs but I don't see what the big deal is. They sound like any multitude of bands you'd see covered by Alternative Press. Like a late 2000's emo band reinventing themselves as an opener for Maroon 5.

idk

Like a late 2000's emo band reinventing themselves as an opener for Maroon 5.

― All kinds of heinous things, Thursday, August 29, 2013 1:32 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

holy shit this description is PERFECT

please "All kind of heinous things" allow me to direct you to MAROON 5 SINGLES POLL

I'm jealous of how much you guys are liking them, I can hear that I should be into it but they remind me too much of every tool hanging out at the Old Blue Last (which I have no reason to believe is a fair assessment) for me to listen with adequately open ears.

holy shit this description is PERFECT

yeah the reason i find them pretty novel is i don't have a precedent for a hybridization of emo and '80s r&b

The instinctive aversion of people with taste kinda makes me enjoy them more? idk

poor ithappens then ..

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/29/the-1975-the-1975-review

I'M NOT YOUR TYPICAL STONED 18 YEAR OLD

HAS HE GOT ENOUGH WEED NO BROKEN PHONE RETCHING ON THE FLOOR ALONE

why are you singling him out is it because of his race

streaming!: http://www.thefader.com/2013/08/30/stream-1975s-self-titled-debut-album/

*rubs hands*

"is there somebody who can watch you" sorta on that spare piano mark hollis tip

They sound like any multitude of bands you'd see covered by Alternative Press.

Just turned in my AP review this morning, ha ha. It'll be on their website early next week.

i'm curious as to your take on it phil. looking forward to the review

I'm curious how AP's readers will respond to it, since to me this album sounds super '80s - I reference Wang Chung, Fun Boy Three, General Public and John Hughes movie soundtracks.

this is the best album of all time (only halfway through)

yep

this is the best album of all time (only halfway through)

yep

streaming tears of joy

push your lack of chest out
look at my hair
gotta love the way you love yourself

your obsession with rocks and brown and fucking the whole town is a reflection on your mental health

what's with shipley's silence on these kids?

way too british for shipley right?

yeah that was my thought too

"settle down" btw, man

the percussion cadence in "pressure" reminds me of "steal my sunshine"

hi what'd I miss??

feel like this thread is made for me

all my ILX and real life bros are defending this thing, so I'm downloading now

I'm loving "Heart Out", though it does make me want to start singing the lyrics of "This Must Be The Place" on top of it.

what's with shipley's silence on these kids?

― k3vin k., Friday, August 30, 2013 4:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've got the Shipley's covered on this one.

Missing the more ambient, drifting tracks from the EP's.

Those are cool n all but this album is something special. No complaints at all.

I think the second half is even better than the first half.

"menswear" is an excellent hybrid of the ambient drifting stuff and the stuff on the album so it's hard for me to miss that aspect

also "menswear" is literally about going to a wedding in a remote location and not being able to find drugs and therefore getting piss drunk

Oh, I was hoping it was a subtle jab at Scott Schuman.

I listened to one of their songs on YouTube
Sounded like John Mayer

lol

I can hear some (electric) Neon in this actually.

also "menswear" is literally about going to a wedding in a remote location and not being able to find drugs and therefore getting piss drunk

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, August 30, 2013 9:55 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, Menswear is a jam. I didn't think it was going to go anywhere beyond what it was doing but that abrupt drop is perfect.

The first few listens didn't do much for me beyond Sex, The City, and Settle Down but after listening to it on my "good" headphones instead of the ones I usually use, ones where the right earpiece falls off the band if I tilt my head too far to the right because I didn't tape it well enough, anyway, I listened to this on decent headphones and I'm suddenly enjoying it a lot more.

Yeah, the absence of the ambient stuff isn't anything like a deal breaker, since the album is so focussed and most tracks are total pop songs with big hooks.

"girls" is pure bliss

aoty/d/c/m

Maybe it's that the atmosphere and melodies on the EPs felt a bit more open-ended and exploratory, so there was more space for imagining what kind of style they were putting together. Need to listen to the album a few more times, but it's certainly more snapped together.

like in "girls" i think the chorus has just finished but no that was just the pre-chorus and the massive hook is still to come. and the extended instrumental outro like omgggggggggggg

I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SALVATION IN THE SECULAR AGE BUT GIRL I'M NOT YOUR SAAAAAAVIOR

So good. While I love the ambient stuff, I don't miss it on the album (plus, it's not hard to have a separate playlist of those tracks - I just hope they do more EPs rather than go entirely in the direction of the album).

I think you mean "Selected Wham!bient Works, 8.5" - 9.2""

― Tim F, Monday, August 12, 2013 11:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just felt like that needed to be reposted.

I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SALVATION IN THE SECULAR AGE BUT GIRL I'M NOT YOUR SAAAAAAVIOR

― prolego, Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:09 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

aight this line sold me, i'm going in

damn son who produced this shit it's stellar

I've not heard a note of this band but this is... not the selection of posters I expected to see repping.

emo-wave is the new ting round here, keep up

the only ting matter of fact :/

anyway tho

i can't quite believe 'm.o.n.e.y' just happened

not least because.. it didn't feel out of place at all

Haha Matt if you come on board with this as well it will be perfect, a giant cosmic reverse-birthday-present for Lex.

http://www.elmcitycrossfit.com/storage/legion-doom.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1266189444589

Top row second from the left is a decent likeness of me actually.

as long as I'm Captain Cold!

Really coming around to the rerecorded "Sex" - the mushy quality is right for the album, and I love the lip-quivering softness of "hhhhow" in the opening "And this is how it starts..."

emo-wave is the new ting round here, keep up

the only ting matter of fact :/

― r|t|c, Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah what does it say that this and Paramore are likely to be my one-two-punch for 2013??

AN
KLE
BI
TERS?

FUCK my uh, preview copy had the first five tracks in wrong order and now i have to forge new memories :(

1.sex 2 the 1975 3 the city 4 chocolate 5 money

worked well fwiw

1.sex 2 the 1975 3 the city 4 chocolate 5 money

^^ chapters in my memoir

LP leaking

oh shit I'm late to the party (embarrassed face)

okay i've come around this is the best album of all time.

Yeah what does it say that this and Paramore are likely to be my one-two-punch for 2013??

― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 13:56 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's definitely got nothing to do with a bunch of aged hacks awash with keening saudade that's for sure

T_T

haha i was agreeing with you!

I'm crying in recognition.

Is there an emoticon that adds a hint of ruefulness.

In fact from now on maybe I will just conduct all conversations about these albums via LINE.

Really coming around to the rerecorded "Sex"

i think i like it better now; it's probably just the way they produced it but it seems brighter and more energetic

way i worded that suggests i should be bizarro in the legion of doom

lol at rtc's order of tracks starting off with "this is how it starts"

I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SALVATION IN THE SECULAR AGE BUT GIRL I'M NOT YOUR SAAAAAAVIOR

thank you prolego for parsing this line, i once was lost but now am etc.

well yes exactly!! xp

the missequencing i'm most butthurt about is 'money' though, shows its clever hand just that bit too soon now

Funny thread!

I think I would end up liking these guys a lot if they were played on the radio all the time

a false moment i can never have again, truly i am having the realest crash course in this album

'sex' is a-list radio 1 bruv

and she said use YOUR HANDS AND MY SPARE TIME

she's got a boyfriend anyway

now we're just outside of town
AND YOU'RE MAKING YOUR WAY DOWN

Ah rtc I only listen to mersh radio at work and 1xtra at home. 3 sometimes on a comedown and I occasionally pretend I listen to 4 but I don't really

This is okay but I'm not sure I'm really feeling the magic.

but you concede it is magical, your honor the defense rests

haim have got boyfriends anyway

wins my man if u like bilal, jose james and 1xtra why are you being coy about hollering at the god

these guys are playing for free here next week, do you think they'll be more swoony dreamy emobient live or more shitty indie plodders?

Dunno what you're talking about m8 xp

srsly think i'm just gonna leave 'settle down' on loop and call it a day, there are no other songs in the world

these guys are playing for free here next week, do you think they'll be more swoony dreamy emobient live or more shitty indie plodders?

idk what you're on about but they're great live

sometimes they play "head.cars.bending" and they make it pretty massive

In fact from now on maybe I will just conduct all conversations about these albums via LINE.

― Tim F, Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:34 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which bear sticker would you use

I was thinking more of Moon.

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/line_pr-aaa/imgs/5/7/5719c361.png

nice - moon was actually the correct choice here. you passed the test

I listened to Chocolate and the EP version of Sex again and I think I'm starting to get hooked. Kind of afraid.

Finally tracked this down (as opposed to listening to the stream) and took it with me to the gym. Most emotional session ever.

"M.O.N.E.Y.", "Settle Down", "Girls" and "Menswear" are all thoroughly ~my shit~

I like how "M.O.N.E.Y." and "Menswear" are like like parts two and three of a trilogy started by "So Far (It's Alright)".

Kinda feel like Paramore's 'It Aint Fun' is a first cousin once removed to like half this album.

tru

"girls" is so good

also the final 2 mins of "settle down"

and the first min of Pressure

Just did a road trip to San Diego with the wife sans kids for a childhood friend's wedding. This and Paramore are pretty much all we listened to there and back and driving up and down the coast. I haven't had an album strike me down like this in a long time.

Sort of enjoying this. Sounds like a cross between Prefab Sprout and John Waite in both sound and vision.

Don't know anything about this mob but, somewhat bizarrely, they were on this yesterday

Haha Matt if you come on board with this as well it will be perfect, a giant cosmic reverse-birthday-present for Lex.

I vomited on his living room floor instead. Which I think on balance would have been the preferred option of the two.

Tabs with unlimited 0's
New clothes
Bloody nose
Powders and walking back home
Has he got enough weed?
No
Broken phone
Retching on the floor alone
I can't believe that we're talking about him

What's up with this dude's accent by the way? I can't work out what's going on with his vowels at all, if someone hadn't told me they were from Manchester I would never have guessed. They've got an inherent Aussieness to them that I can't put my finger on.

perhaps its an unfortunate consequence of the dude's oral fixation

and i've been thinking lots about your mouth

mouth in every song it seemed to me

True, ergh... cannot un-hear.

lol, always happy to help

as per upthred it's really kinda amazing how many names you'd be within your rights to throw at this lot

my uncultured mind added vampire weekend, my chemical romance, the streets, savage garden...

lol @ savage garden

yeah, like, a "related acts" matrix for this band would be crazy/divisive/hilarious

arctic monkeys for poptimists

aw hell let's toss The Outfield into this stew too.

haha tbf i do have a totally romanticised and probably totally baseless mental image of savage garden

Still a funny thread!

http://i.imgur.com/OUDys8x.jpg

mm yeah i'd been trying to put his parentage to the back of my mind

i spose a crit could put it to shitty use wrt the kid's thespy fluidity and observational indulgences

OK fine I downloaded Savage Garden's "I Want You."

I get reminded of stuff from M83's last album at points, though that may have been more from some of the EP material.

Looks like there's a 2CD deluxe edition with all the EPs on the second disc.

Def m83 vibes xp

This album is the fucking best, my high expectations are surpassed. No ~deep thoughts~ yet, just letting it wash over me... Wow.

And Tim F leaving a trail of otm's all over this thread <3

my uncultured mind added vampire weekend, my chemical romance, the streets, savage garden...

― r|t|c, Monday, September 2, 2013 5:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

These are all correct. esp last the two.

i keep confusing this band with vampire weekend :/ sorry dudes. my indie pop muscles have atrophied.

Xpost actually quite a few of the new songs here are really really really The Streets' "It's Too Late" multiplied by Savage Garden's "The Animal Song".

After loading those tracks up on YouTube, just... no.

jesus christ what is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5FMeAPpc8A

cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcG9lpZV24

Actually, Savage Garden is totally accurate, but why the Streets? Is it the accent?

More when he starts talking really fast about weed and sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school.

ambient geezer dramedy of 'menswear' run the bell loudest

I'm sitting with a girl
Fortunate placing
Preceding railing racket off a porcelain basin

also whichever song it is where some girl's "throwing bensons" (in his mouth) (obviously)

Well, who's this? Going for the kiss,
I'm probably gonna yosh in your mouth.
Because it's 5 past 3, I can hardly see and I'm on the verge of passing out.

ambient geezer dramedy of 'menswear' run the bell loudest

― r|t|c, Monday, September 2, 2013 11:11 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also "So Far (It's Alright)" on the IV ep.

As noted above I see those two and "M.O.N.E.Y." as forming something of a trilogy

yeah i need to do the eps

beyond the geezaesthetic moments he also often does a kind of skinnerish in-the-moment but out-of-body lucid narration idk

dont know vampire weekend quite well enough to say for sure but i feel koenig's eye is in there a little bit too, not just how 'talk!' sounds

I like your face despite your nose

i guess maybe that sort of line's kind of a generic britlad kicker tho

mike skinner remix of "m.o.n.e.y." is p terrible unfortunately/expectedly (?) (idk i've barely listened to the streets)

lissvik remix of "settle down" is a blast tho

holy shit this is so good

2nd serve of "way out" 4 life

wait, i meant "heart out"

"she way out" is the only one that isn't blowing me away rn

Adding to the laundry list of comparisons in this thread, it's as if the Jacques Lu Cont remix of the Killers "Mr Brightside" had spawned a bunch've NME bands rather than frankendance/bloghouse hybrids (or, IDK, these songs are the 7" originals of JLCs extended 80s 12" expansions rather than the sow's ears they more often than not were).

Would like some explication of the accent. Anything off this likely to chart in the UK?

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

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:52 PM (2 months ago)

"Robbers" has got a bit of a "Downtown Lights" vibe to it, tbh.

I think "Chocolate" already charted pretty high?

IMO "She Way Out" is the first and only tune that feels a bit too generically in line with a lot of other stuff on the album, or at least it's in the dead center of whatever constellation is traced by "Chocolate", "Talk!", "Heart Out", "Settle Down" and "Girls" without having any of the distinctive features that each of those tunes has.

Funny thing is that "Chocolate" aside they'd not really done anything remotely in that vein before the album itself.

I'll be interested to see what people who get into them via the album think when they go back to tunes like "Undo", "You", "Me", "Fallingforyou", "Haunt // Bed"... none of which really sound like anything here.

hah the synth washes on the first track gave me a killers vibe xxp

wait i guess that's the second track

They just remind me of Phoenix really but without Phoenix's essential shitiness.

i get a Bloc Party first album vibe off this too but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked

Yeah that too.

that might hit the closest as to why i love this

fuck i was gonna mention bloc party

i'm gonna throw this out instead: hot hot heat

gareth from los camp tweeted at me that this band's lead singer's mom is on the UK version of "the view" ??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Welch

flagging that post, dayo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhsIgnOi7hQ

fyi btw bloc party dude is probably going #1 with this soon

jesus fucking christ the lack of shame itt

the comparison points you guys are throwing out, the actual worst music ever

i was hoping the bloc party thing would break lex's silence

i stan for bloc party's first two albums but i can't for the life of me understand why dance producers use him as a vocalist

the big instrumental moments on this sub focus track are pretty effective though

http://i.imgur.com/Wtm1Cfn.jpg

Original video for 'Robbers' seems really 90s indie alternative vibe. I think they recorded it as The Big Sleep, or Talk House?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSgRz53bIM

i stan for bloc party's first two albums

as i said, the lack of shame is astounding

no one should stan for anything about bloc party

anyway this 1975 guy's voice is the fucking worst, actually unlistenable. would rather hear his mother singing

acts referenced so far itt:

("prime-time") 3rd Eye Blind
James Blake ("expiring")
("next gen") Matchbox Twenty
My Vitriol
Kitchens of Distinction
Poole
Robbie Williams
A Mountain of One ("if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli")
The House of Love
Placebo
Paramore
("a slightly funkier") Blue Nile
("gauzy fake") U2
Glasvegas
Wham!("bience")
Snow Patrol
Wang Chung
Fun Boy Three
General Public
John Mayer
Vampire Weekend
My Chemical Romance
The Streets
Savage Garden
The Outfield
M83
Phoenix ("but without Phoenix's essential shitiness")
Bloc Party ("but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked")
Hot Hot Heat

in case no-one was aware, the limited edition includes all the eps on the second disc.

i agree with most of that and would add Jimmy Eat World

that list somehow looks even worse all in one place. the actual worst music ever

Yeah, not really the hippest set of influences there.

The cover of Chris Malinchak is also a weird move.

Someone also mentioned John Waite and Prefab Sprout.

max's list is making me wish i unleashed the sizable amount of r&b this record recalls for me but maybe that's more obvious/actually embedded in their pr

(or, IDK, these songs are the 7" originals of JLCs extended 80s 12" expansions rather than the sow's ears they more often than not were)

for instance i'd say this is otm but to jlc i'd add basically any new romantic 12" and any jam/lewis 12"

the expansiveness of a 12" mix drawn back into four minutes

There's Postcard in Girls, too.

Like if Scritti Politti and U2 had been on the same side.

oh fuck EXACTLY

yeah that or this mountain dew kid cudi commericial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJGKnlIWVc

approachin the hill (approachin the hill (approachin the hill))

Like if Scritti Politti and U2 had been on the same side.

^^ 'robbers' kinda leaves scritti politti out of the equation.

Add The Big Pink to that list imo

Foals and Snow Patrol also

Oh wait, somebody beat me to the snow patrol ref.

anyway looking at that list this seems like it would be the grossest album ever but it's really not? hooks piled on to infinity. these guys were not on my radar at all, so thanks ilx!

One band that also came to my mind was the earlier stuff by The Devlins. Particularly songs like Alone in the Dark and Someone to Talk To.

genuinely no idea if adding foals and snow patrol is 4 real or designed to make me even more allergic to them

HOW you can all put up with his voice i have no idea

reminds me of the Artful Dodger in Oliver!

His voice is fairly anonymous and not actively offensive but I really don't get his intonation at all, there's a bit where he sings "throw ipp on yr shizz" and I genuinely have no idea what accent he's going for.

The first Bloc Party album is a good call actually because the 80s Big Music aspect of that record is often overlooked in favour of the post-punk revivalism.

I suspect if this had come out in 2006 it would have elicited a monumental mass eyeroll.

Not sure about the production and mixing on this though, I wish there was a bit more space - what's the point of having massive 80s drums if there's no space for them to echo round?

It's the stupid accent and the WHINE

Like fucking placebo or something

Lyrics are dumb and overwrought btw

Calling this out for being too whiny is like calling Sade out for being too tasteful or something.

this kind of mid-Atlantic meets mid-Thames non-denominational whine/mumble is an improvement on the lumpen fake-localisms of a lot of UK indie from the last 10 years so i think you have to look at as a way for a band to escape that trap rather than be sad cos the guy doesn't have some great soul voice

having said that it wd be weird hearing a band making these kinda musical moves and having a singer with a great soul voice

but you might end up with what Tony Hadley sounds like in his own head and that doesn't seem like a win

i think id connect with the band about 50 percent less if the guy didnt sound like a mash of every whiney 2nd wave emo singer

It's true, though: if Hayley Williams sung these tunes the album would be A+.

god i have tried sooooo hard to get into that paramore album and i don't respond AT ALL to it, there's nothing wrong with how it sounds but i don't hear the hooks or any way in at all

which i think is actually BECAUSE of her voice which is just...there

the 1975 covered a 1D song today on Radio 1

time-honoured indie gimmick :\

My AltPress.com review.

god i have tried sooooo hard to get into that paramore album and i don't respond AT ALL to it, there's nothing wrong with how it sounds but i don't hear the hooks or any way in at all

― lex pretend, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 10:14 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

same

wow i really do not get this album at all. like i don't have the proper context to like it, is it a britpop thing or something?

acts referenced so far itt:

("prime-time") 3rd Eye Blind
James Blake ("expiring")
("next gen") Matchbox Twenty
My Vitriol
Kitchens of Distinction
Poole
Robbie Williams
A Mountain of One ("if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli")
The House of Love
Placebo
Paramore
("a slightly funkier") Blue Nile
("gauzy fake") U2
Glasvegas
Wham!("bience")
Snow Patrol
Wang Chung
Fun Boy Three
General Public
John Mayer
Vampire Weekend
My Chemical Romance
The Streets
Savage Garden
The Outfield
M83
Phoenix ("but without Phoenix's essential shitiness")
Bloc Party ("but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked")
Hot Hot Heat

― max, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only like about 2 of these bands so maybe that's the problem

which 2

lol at anyone referencing poole (though "car" is probably the second-best indie rock song called "car" ever)

vampire weekend and wham!, obviously

lol at anyone referencing poole

Fine, be that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEVXmzHY1lU

that's lovely

way to make a one direction song kinda sound like a stripped down "angel of mine"

studio vibes unreasonably suited toward this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaT1dWMnCCY

i don't really want to hear or think about these guys in the sphere of remix culture at all tbh

otm noodle posts today

i don't really want to hear or think about these guys in the sphere of remix culture at all tbh

their other remixes are hot garbage so you might never have to

Lex not liking this is not shocking. Him not hearing the hooks in the Paramore album is a bit befuddling. It's got hooks for days.

I have tried so many times with that album but to no avail, every time I start wondering when it'll end about halfway through and I can never remember any of it when it ends. It's like if ashlee simpson made a really samey, really long, really one-note and personality-free album

Like I can hear exactly how it should hit the spot for me but the songs are just not there

p tenuous posturing even for u tbh

they sound like guster

and dispatch

man those bands suck

PRITCHFOKR SPAEKS

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18467-the-1975-the-1975/

Damn. Fucking lack of middle 8's. A rookie mistake.

it's like he's butthurt they kept changing their name

Is this album something I need to hear if I didn't like all their early stuff, or does this band still just sound like regurgitated Bloc Party?

evan : i actually think this thread answers that very question

I didn't mean to be rude or lazy; I just read the posts under the "now skipping" jump and still couldn't really get a sense of whether this is something people are repping for or not

no worries evan.

i did not mean to be snappy .. tis not my groove.

to answer your question : this thread implies that they are indeed ripping off bloc party (to a degree)

several ilm'rs love this album with a passion rarely seen in bits and bytes round these parts, the rest it's a resigned : 'meh ... '

for the record i'm with the 'meh .. '

ha I never really got too deeply into Bloc Party so my reaction to it was "this seems to be like a more successful version of what I think the Franz Ferdinand album is trying to do", an opinion I formed by playing three songs off of FF, getting bored, and switching over to The 1975

bloc party had that one decent song

It doesn't take much for me to dismiss British buzz bands. I've been burned so, so many times (and the funny thing is I usually like the influences those bands are playing with, but they almost never add anything to them)

And I liked that first Bloc Party album, too, but I don't need a second helping of more of the same. British post-punk is some of my favorite music ever, but the revival stuff gets more dire every year

Given my first exposure to the band was listening to the EPs without prior exposure to the singles I'm finding people's reference points really curious even when objectively they make sense - but it's hard for me to conceive of a band who make songs like "Haunt // Bed" or "fallingforyou" as "ripping off Bloc Party".

Oh dear. And I was going to upload the new Franz Ferdinand to my iPod for a plane ride tomorrow.

the fourth song on the new FF is the only good one, DJP!

i can't believe you have any time for franz ferdinand alfred smh, i thought you were proud of your taste

I have a lot of affection for about an album's worth of material.

the fact is, if they had tried to rip off the departure then i would be more interested.

(now thats just bloody weird .. banquet has just dropped on the playlist .. )

Haha lex don't ever look at Alfred's people's list.

The only song by The 1975 that I think sounds like Bloc Party would be "Sex", but that might just be due to my limited understanding of what Bloc Party sounds lke.

"chocolate" is such a great track. not too sure about the rest of the e.p. though

"The City" is pretty Bloc Party, but the resemblance stops after those two tracks.

It doesn't take much for me to dismiss British buzz bands. I've been burned so, so many times (and the funny thing is I usually like the influences those bands are playing with, but they almost never add anything to them)

― Evan R, Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:05 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

white rose movement!

this album gets pretty dire for me when they slow down the tempo. i'm also puzzled as to how they had enough material to release a deluxe 2 CD EP. also puzzled by all the interludes (and, upon relistening to the paramore album, the interludes there as well).

Haha lex don't ever look at Alfred's people's list.

― Tim F,

ha -- which?

as for this album, I decided this week is okay to meh because I have little patience for adenoids.

The EPs are pretty great, still getting into the album.

Hey, "Sex" is pretty fantastic! Time to try the album...

i'm also puzzled as to how they had enough material to release a deluxe 2 CD EP

idk dayo they've been releasing eps for the past year

pfork review is almost incredibly tone-deaf, so many bridges on this record?

/stan

Yeah slightly unusual song structures is actually a bit of a calling card for them?

My latest favourite thing/s are the "Hey!" punctuation shouts in "Girls".

Maybe Jason was listening to Gypsy and the Cat by mistake.

idk dayo they've been releasing eps for the past year

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i dunno why i called it a 2 CD EP

but a deluxe 2 CD package seems like something you'd release if you knew that the band wouldn't be around in another year

now embarking on the eps

'haunt/bed' sounds like ar kane, chuck it on the references pile would u sweetheart

Please live blog your reax - I feel like, more than the album, each song on the EPs is like it's own reference point ecosystem.

'so far / it's alright' posits them as black butter's fun boy three

'fallingforyou' gated drums could be anything, i will ambitiously stretch for maybe an imaginary extended 12" mix of peter gabriel / k8 bush 'don't give up'

excuse me while i put that last one on again cos it was really very good

Haha "black butter's fun boy three" is spot on.

"falllngforyou" makes me think of "let's go out tonight"

these fucking eps... i knew they'd be a bit different but i'm just sitting here like

http://i.imgur.com/TnH1c4N.gif

I'm saying, bro.

what's with shipley's silence on these kids?

― k3vin k., Friday, August 30, 2013 7:54 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

way too british for shipley right?

― J0rdan S., Friday, August 30, 2013 7:55 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol called it

not that i ever would've even thought to listen to something with this kind of buzz around it but it assaulted my ears in a youtube ad

buzz is mostly itt only it seems like

Do the Brits hate these guys?

idk any new band reviewed on pitchfork is a red flag for me

pitchfork mostly dislike them it seems

#stoppedclock

#irony

#burn

What a horrible sound this band have.

xpost Brits hate them so much the album went straight in at No 1

that's prob just from the amount of ilx mentions it's got. they count those now.

i listened to the EPs expecting to have rtc levels of revelation, but i just ended up liking all the same songs i liked off the lp. which is to say, i think this band has produced a really solid EP's worth of songs but not much more.

i will ambitiously stretch for maybe an imaginary extended 12" mix of peter gabriel / k8 bush 'don't give up'

my entire thesis

count me in altho I'm most just in love with "Chocolate" and "The City" right now

that neon skyline shriek over the chorus to 'the city' is something i can never get enough of. when you realise it's not skins but akira

plus, plus those fuckin drumz. rick rubin and juan atkins couldn't have co-produced it better

Minus the few interludestrumentals, I'd have to go with this atm:

The City > Girls > Heart Out > Chocolate > Sex > Menswear > Pressure > Settle Down > M.O.N.E.Y. > Robbers > Talk > Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You > She Way Out

is it just me or does anybody else hear philly boy roy in the vocals to "chocolate"?

Wasn't paying any attention to these guys til I heard "Sex" a few weeks ago. The album is a lot more restrained and mid tempo than the single would suggest, so consider me disappointed upon my first listen. I'll give it another shot, though.

Just interviewed Matt Healy. Really interesting young guy; very vivid and passionate - desperate to explain himself, and his music. Completely unashamed about wanting to make big pop music. And really concerned about the responsibilities- which he obviously hadn't foreseen - that come with becoming a big pop star who kids think is a fount of wisdom. Enjoyed the show at Bowery Ballroom last night; going again tonight.

oh man i wish i could've seen them

i interviewed him last month but uh that piece never saw the light of day for reasons mostly owing to my own discipline. great interview

i don't really want to hear or think about these guys in the sphere of remix culture at all tbh

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:43 (1 month ago) Bookmark

http://soundcloud.com/the1975/pressure-artful-remix

oh go on then if u really insist

'chocolate' sometimes feels like their most inscrutable miracle, like it's hard to fathom how its jaunty indie urchin ingredients don't add up to something pretty appalling

in the end it seems kind of meta almost, listener dazedly intoxicated by the sickly sweet "oh my hair smells like chocolate" rush in the middle of an inadvisable caper

GOT get it GOT get it GOT get it GO... and play it cool

nevertheless, add busted to the refs list

also fennesz for half of the music for cars ep

http://soundcloud.com/the1975/pressure-artful-remix

AHHHHH this is perfect. Really runs with the MOR-garage sound Artful established with "Could Just Be The Dancefloor".

And so telling that you can mention Busted and Fennesz in the same post.

haha ikr, immediately after posting i settled on b x f as my go-to line on them should my irl opinion ever be called upon (even if it is imprecise)

i hope it's not just me that listens to 'anobrain' and finds "we take your mum's car to the edge of the town... and we driiiiive" embarrassingly emotive

It is! Also the gentleness of the multitracked vocals on that tune and stuff like "fallingforyou" feels more precious now given they didn't explore that side at all on the album.

that artful remix

Was listening to album again this afternoon. At 12 tracks it would have been a perfect pop record. So many great moments.

xpost IKR?

I think people overstate the "80s John Hughes teen movie" aspect of the record, like they hear how shiny a lot of it is and then sorta gloss over stuff like"Talk!" (which I'd consider a second tier track anyway) being basically "Once In A Lifetime" sped up

"Once In A Lifetime" may not have been in a specific John Hughes movie but that doesn't strike me as worlds away

No but it's a busy tune, it's not smooth surfaces like "Don't You Forget About Me" - not that every tune in John Hughes films was like the latter but that's how it tends to get used as critical shorthand.

I think the John Hughes refs are fine - and they refer as much to the variety of styles (it's like a soundtrack album in that respect) as to the glossy 80s sheen. Also to be fair, it was Healy himself who coined it. The difference is the desperation in some of the lyrics of these songs. And the sense that this isn't firmly aimed at one generation. One of the things I get from the writing is a sense of generational dislocation, like different sheets of sandpaper rubbing up against each other, as if Healy is looking both at the teenagers and the thirtysomethings and trying to work out who and where he is in relation to them, knowing he's ceased to be one and not yet become another.

Got the deluxe edition with the EPs and listened to them properly and repeatedly, and prefer the hit-after-hit of the album, though the EPs, listened to in a row, present them as a rather different band.

avoided this subconsciously for ages because of the name and assumed that this was garden variety nme indie and if this is what that sounds like now then goodness i am pleased

wish i'd seen the thread and seen who was repping for it so i could've had this in rotation for six extra months or so.

Adding to the laundry list of comparisons in this thread, it's as if the Jacques Lu Cont remix of the Killers "Mr Brightside" had spawned a bunch've NME bands rather than frankendance/bloghouse hybrids (or, IDK, these songs are the 7" originals of JLCs extended 80s 12" expansions rather than the sow's ears they more often than not were).

Would like some explication of the accent. Anything off this likely to chart in the UK?

― etc, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 2:39 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is quite true for a handful of tracks here, ditto the inward-focused bloc party. like a bunch of this modern loves and i still remembers and so here we ares instead of the rest of it.

and everything else too

and why is this so wonderful.

Alex I specifically brought this to your attention on Facebook at a very early stage!!

wait. really? ugh Facebook stupid Facebook eating notifications curses etc.

ah well better late than never. struggling to absorb all of this.

so many hooks not enough time to jack them directly into my brain

has anyone seen them before? they're here in a few weeks, thinking of going

Are they doing any sideshows, or just the Big Day Out?

i have no idea. currently in paris, won't be back in melbourne 'til february.

Ah, I assumed you were referring to the Oz tour.

xpost Worth seeing, for sure. I've only seen them in NY, with over 21 crowd. Suspect at any non over 21 venue it might be an odd experience for anyone over 30 and male. My piece with Matt Healy was in the paper today, and all the Twitter action around it was teenage girls.

My piece with Matt Healy was in the paper today,

i'd like to see this if it's on the internet anywhere!

never mind found it, it's great!

Surprised no one's posted the video for "Girls":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkubQCI4Fxo

there's a what

never mind found it, it's great!

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, November 1, 2013 7:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

link?

Girls video is kinda blurred lines lite but still pretty fun. Drummer playing with girl on his lap was cute.

They found a perfect lookalike for Healy w that short-haired girl. Same expressive brow.

xpost Here's my interview

Alex! Kind of surprised you weren't all over this from the beginning.

The fact that one of the girls in the video clip looks like Marnie makes me wish it was more like Girls the show.

Also this song could really do with an extended mix.

The extended outro is begging for a proper guitar solo tbh.

Thanks for the link. Good interview.

Fantastic piece from Brad - TY Tim for the link.

http://www.drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4147286-memory-as-sound--haim-the-1975-and-the-electricity-of-influence

thank you etc!

real nice!

Good piece.

Went to see them again last night in Brixton. Very different from NY. Crowd was almost entirely screaming teenage girls, fanning themselves with excitement.

aw just saw a kid with tim healy's son's hair

i'm so attracted to his hair

pidgeot realness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsYE078RQCI

Kinda like the video. I hope they do one for every song on this lp.

same here

saaaax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvy5TjfOsU

and inevitably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bdV98FNdWE

hard core sax

:-0 at both of those.

Would be pretty okay with their whole next album adopting the Chris De Burgh vibe of their cover versions.

i can't even deal with the fact that i saw them last night i can't believe that actually happened they were so amazing i nearly cried it was so life-affirming NEVER GONNA QUIT IT NO WE'RE NEVER GONNA QUIT IT NO

this is still the best album

:-( :-( :-( I missed them when they were here :-( :-( :-(

:( that sucks because omg
they played all of the lp except "menswear" and "is there somebody" + they played "milk" + "you" + "so far (it's alright)"
think my favourite moment was the "now that you've got your gun" section in 'robbers'. SO INTENSE.
we had queued up for their noon show but didn't get in due to overcapacity and then i was depressed but then i found out they had a show that night as well and it was only $20 and the guy at the door can't do maths and gave me a 21+ wristband so best night and i still can't believe it happened! soooo good. it's insane how important their music has become to me

oh hi I just heard 'Girls' for the first time and I am suddenly ALL ABOUT THESE HERE BOYZ

i'm in!

YES WELCOME

they're totally great live, need to catch them the next time they're here

Their show here sold out before I could get my hands on tickets and a guy was selling a pair for $70. Fuck outta here.

bought the album at lunchtime, omg I'm in love

they are playing Sacto in April (!) hmmmm

It feels so right that you love them too.

I know! I was so happy to see all my friends here already :D

;_; sacto concert sold out btw ;_;

I really thought I would be tired of this album by now butttttt nope still listen at LEAST once every other week and still never skip a single track.

am i the only one who heard a little Fall Out Boy in "Girls"

something abt the tone of his voice reminds me a bit of Patrick

There's like 50+ influences listed itt but not sure FAB have come up yet.

ahem: FOB

oy

Fall Art Boy: lesser:known conceptual artists

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

lol idiots

i'll gladly take their place

what is their problem

imagine that cutesplosion i mean