the 1975

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