the 1975

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.

I would die for another record like the first one, it’s the one I play most often now

yeah its the best one

god, i love this band

is getting STDs ever a vibe, regardless of one's age?

Growing a beard's not hard at all, either. In fact, it's too fucking easy for my liking.

Anyway, had I like it when you sleep... on full blast today, I'd forgotten how much I really, really like 'UGH!' ...

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— matty (@Truman_Black) May 7, 2019

The band was, of course, great tonight. A couple of funny things. First, I had hoped to take my daughter, but she is for whatever reason totally averse to the band, which ... I don't know why. I was talking with the friend I took in her stead and we thought that maybe she's just too young by a few years, that this is music for 20-somethings, not teens, as much as our teens would like to think they're mature and worldly. Who knows? But second was my friend himself, who I took as a sort of experiment. He's older than me (in his low '50s) and had never even heard of the band before I invited, so I was curious what he'd think. He came straight from work, and go figure, he liked it a lot. (Which was not surprising, because what's not to like, right?). And last - and this is even goofier - I wore what I had been wearing all day, a commemorative "Fort Reno Washington, DC" t-shirt (Fort Reno being the public park where a lot of Dischord bands would play). As I watched the show I thought, jeez, the 1975 is sort of the anti-Dischord, isn't it? And then about halfway through the set Matty took off his jacket and ... he was wearing a Minor Threat shirt!

i hope i'll see them live again in july. unfortunately it's in a music festival.

btw, did anyone hear the new no rome's ep?
i'm enjoying it quite a lot, specially the first two emo tunes, although i would like them to be a little bit longer, i guess.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQBeV5AdcU/

I hope that's actually the cover. It looks great.

A charming interviewee, I must say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_agjB2bECxA

yes i have always agreed!

He looks a lot like Johnny Marr in that interview.

Their visual design is impeccable. Ugh.