the 1975 - i like it when you sleep POLL

Like, they seem to have rectified almost everything I disliked about the first LP on this record - the songwriting is stronger, the vocals hardly ever veer into territory that annoys me and are more pleasant to listen to, and of course I love the diversity of the thing. That George Daniel is as much, if not more of a creative force in this band helps. It's really not the Matt Healy show. Some of the lyrics are a bit ridic in places, but I'm willing to overlook this. The only song I find "lesser" than the others is 'Loving Someone', everything else is great.

('Paris', 'She's American', 'Lostmyhead' and 'She Lays Down' all too low)

wow this is truly one of the great ILM moments

I'm still not a fan of the first album. Some of the tracks on the EP's are quite nice. This album is great!

oh yeah i was gonna direct you toward the eps

Yeah, on the EP's it's mostly the "atmospheric" stuff I like, but I really like 'So Far (It's Alright)'!

This is weird. Is this real?

I too don't have that much time for the debut and think the follow up was a massive step up. Just out of interest, what made you finally decide to give it a listen?

We always welcome new converts.

It really makes me feel like anything is possible on here now. I can see Lex reappearing us to tell us that he's had a change of heart about Destroyer and how he's been having a glorious summer of Kaputt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI

I heard 'She's American' on holiday and liked the PSB-ness of the chord progression in the chorus. I enjoyed it far more than anything I'd heard circa the first album and kept humming the chorus. I decided to give the album a go and was incredibly surprised. Firstly by 'A Change of Heart', then the stretch from 'Please Be Naked' to 'The Ballad of Me and My Brain', but as the album wore on I realised I was listening to this stupendously long record that just kept delivering - it really felt like they'd put their all into making it, and I admired that.

I love how with 'Lostmyhead', they took elements of 'Facedown' and created something better out of them.

So much of people’s perceptions of this band are premised on what they first heard - i’ve always maintained that the pre-album EPs gave a very different impression than would have been given by the debut album alone, notwithstanding that they share several songs.

With the debut you’d be forgiven for thinking that the band was desperate for a hit and “about” these big pop-rock anthems with a few diversions and curios thrown in out of obligation, whereas the EPs (and in a different way the second album) basically reverse that formula. But once that the reversed impression is fixed in yr mind the first album sounds quite different.

I've had 'Paris' stuck in my head a fair bit today - one thing I like about this album is that it's quite well sequenced, just when you expect it to start flagging they pull something like 'Paris' out of the bag.

"...and had a revelation!"

Choir: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

I'll be very surprised if they better this record. The more I listen to it, the more I'm convinced it's one of the best of the decade.

def gotta throw your hands up in praise at that part. the choral harmonies really make that song.

i heard "loving someone" at my buddy turrican's house we both were like 'oh word?'

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that must've been the turning point

That twofer of 'Please Be Naked' and 'Lostmyhead' is some beautiful shit.

And having that followed by The Ballad Of Me And My Brain. Quite something.