the 1975

*too

Oh hey, look what we have here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8TCeuGwtA

So excited to see them in April! Their stage setup looks incredible.

"m.o.n.e.y." live was incredible, i wish they still played it

and "head.cars.bending" ofc but i've given up on that

They piss off xgau apparently:

I think they suck, and having streamed the new one at least three times without retaining anything but the internet skit will only consider explaining why for a minimum of a buck a word--as I just said, I don't do pans anymore. Congratulations, however, for not calling them a "rock band." Rock bands still oughta, you know, rock (for better or worse--here's to you, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age). I note as well that you are not from the United Kingdom, the spawning ground of the 1975 delusion. Don't let me stop you--stick to what you believe. But don't kid yourself if you find your faith faltering.

good

lol

have there been any high-quality youtubes of recent shows? I can't find any right now

Where is that Christgau quote from? That is hilarious.

https://www.robertchristgau.com/xgausez.php

I hate to admit it it but “love it if we made it” has found it way into my head and I’ve played it non stop this week.

Popped into my head this morning too! Clear highpoint of this album cycle imo

I was just rewatching the video of it from the O2 linked above. Even though I was anticipating it for the whole week before it still completely blew me away live.

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

apparently i missed this from two weeks ago but it's great

I posted that upthread two weeks ago! But I guess I used a mobile link and it didn't embed.

But yeah it's great, they (unsurprisingly) use it as the backdrop when they play it live and it works really well.

My appreciation of that one has only increased - I thought it was a bit formless on first listen, but over time I've realised just how cathartic it is to bellow along to.

The back half of the album ('Inside Your Mind' to 'I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)') has become my favourite part of the album now.

this is so OTM

this performance is so good

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

awesome

I agree. Wonder if the next decade'll be as kind to them as this one has been.

oh my god that performance is wonderful

the 1975 - a brief inquiry into online relationships poll

having one of those nights where their amniotic ambient stuff sounds like the best music ever... menswear, me, head.cars.bending, haunt/bed, so far it's alright, fallingforyou... jesus h

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 24, 2018 1:00 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, throw 'Lostmyhead' onto that pile too, which is one of my favourite ever tracks of theirs.

I just love this band so much

I saw them last weekend in Buenos Aires. It was really, really good. A very trimmed down setlist, no instrumentals, just a non-stop barrage of hits. Matt looked way better than the last time, much more engaged with the audience than in 2017. The projections are amazing, they've really upped the ante with the production values this time. The final performance is "Sex" and it's in-fucking-credible.

There's a recording of the performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSqH_95uAVI&t=1748s. You guys over the equator are in for a treat with this tour.

Notes On A Conditional Form pic.twitter.com/0HBcT8D3Ud

— matty (@Truman_Black) April 14, 2019

looks like the build up to Notes is starting

worth noting over here, i guess, that their Coachella performance was absolutely 10/10

I didn't catch the Coachella performance as it would have been silly o'clock in the morning in the UK when it was broadcasted, I'll wait until someone inevitably whacks the set up on Youtube.

Fingers crossed that there's no elevator muzak pseudo cocktail jazz on the new record, and it's all '80s style bangers, shoegazy goodness and IDM freakouts.

this is the last time i'll say anything about it but if anything your enjoyment of this band is worse than your previous disdain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwvBGy1A6Wo

they sound amazing. even matty's singing is 3000x better than usual

*click!*

They are one of the most mysteriously great sounding live acts since Phoenix. I mean, just literally, how good they sound, for four or five dudes and what they're doing. I assume there must be some sort of audio magic at work, but it's subtle, if it's even happening.

BTW, I heard from a source the the title of their next album will indeed be " I assume there must be some sort of audio magic at work, but it's subtle, if it's even happening."

"i like america" live is a motherfucker

also lmao at the very small but loud group of people shouting "antichrist! antichrist! antichrist!"

Ha! One day they'll just randomly play it and all hell will break loose.

The production design for their show is super good.

They are one of the most mysteriously great sounding live acts since Phoenix. I mean, just literally, how good they sound, for four or five dudes and what they're doing. I assume there must be some sort of audio magic at work, but it's subtle, if it's even happening.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 18, 2019 5:43 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Four band members plus two auxilliary musicians plus two dancers that also sing backing vocals plus backing tracks covering the rest of the parts.

*auxiliary.

Oh, I know *how* they do it, it just sounds very, very good. Clean, solid, locked together air-tight. I feel that way whenever I see, say, a mainstream country act or something like Panic at the Disco, where there is a lot of movement and showmanship and playing but it sounds almost identical to the record (which is already pretty slick to begin with). It's just so impeccably ... *produced*, but live.

what was the YoutuBe video Brad posted? it seems to have disappeared (or the wifi in this taco shop sucks)

also:

"i like america" live is a motherfucker

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:54 AM (three hours ago)

this, this, this. was absolutely a highlight of Coachella set. maybe THE highlight.

It was the Coachella set. It seems to have pulled from Youtube for the usual, obvious reasons.

I’m sure it’ll be officially uploaded shortly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGrtzzpNpi0

here's a new song played acoustic that'll likely be on Notes in some form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRBg31w0ANs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dclYNe2z9YI

those video screens are pretty fuckin cool. that is not what coachella looked like when i went.

It's funny, because everything I've read about the new album suggests that it's going to be their kind of version of a "going back to our roots" album, but I'll bet it isn't.

"We think it'll sound like Burial" suggests "going back to our roots" for you?
Admittedly that was just one of several things they've said about the album, but it was also, like, the first

Okay, almost everything. I tend not to pay attention to what an artist thinks their record is going to sound like before they've started make it.

Remember, they were going to put out an album under the name of Drive Like I Do before that plan was scrapped, and since then Healy has spoken about wanting to return to the feel of being a small emo band rather than go down a more arena rock route. Also, lyrically, the ideas so far suggest the territory of the first album rather than anything since.