the 1975

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

actually - didn't ZZ Top do this with some of their reissues ?
i.e. totally changed the way their albums sounded ?
surely there is a thread re such revisions on ilm ?

Reminds of the Jens re-recordings. RIP Black Cab.

you guys are talking about a totally different thing now…..

more comparable: bowie removing that one song from future reissues of never let me down

ok so their social media seems to be wiped clean (I think this might have been done awhile ago actually) and Dirty Hit just posted what seems to be a breakup announcement, or not, in the band’s usual cryptic style

nm it’s a promo from the I Like It When You Sleep era, false alarm lol