the 1975

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.

that interview was terrific

that guy asked good unconventional questions! and good on those other folks for not interrupting the long story.

no doubt i was kuleshoving him but i enjoyed what seemed to me the progression in stages of the silent older guy's expression from "who is this vapid twerp" to "wow life"

silent older guy looks like Classic British Host, i.e. alky three Pimms + lemonades in his cups

https://a2-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/130/c146d50cf0f64a6587b85589f3f8d717/full.jpg

They've won a couple of Ivor Novello's - best contemporary song for 'Love It If We Made It' and songwriters of the year.

apparetly the latest Notes news is that the lead single has been delayed until August, lol

fuck!

Seems to me that they're - understandably - struggling to write and record a new album while still on the promotional cycle for the current one. It must be difficult for them to concentrate on the making of it for any length of time before having to fuck off somewhere else to play a gig or do a TV appearance or other promo.

I don't think they'll be having any problems coming up with ideas, though.

I was under the impression that it was done?

saw them tonight... they are of course superb. it's funny now in a 75 min set you're getting like 60% singles and only a few of their singles would be among my true favorite songs but it's a really fun, hit-packed, energetic show. (looking at setlists it seems like they basically have 3 shows: an hourlong festival set that is all new stuff and hits; a 75 min long festival set that is new stuff, hits, w/ a few head picks thrown in; a 90 min arena/amphitheater show that has a half dozen head picks). they still aren't incredibly loud but the band really does shine... "she's american" & "the sound" start to bend towards disco, even something like "change of heart" gets this sort of loose and limber almost danceable playing

last i heard on the album was early fall but they're on tour almost literally w/o break thru september so in my head i'm sort of just assuming october or november. it would just be very unlike them to release an album w/o being around to promo it heavily... when i interviewed matty he talked about understanding that their fans really respond to a traditional album rollout where there are these bread crumbs to fixate on and contextualize w/in the sort of mythology that true stans are always building. they do work extremely hard so it's not out of the question that they could try and pull it off while on tour in asia/australia but we'll see (i'm just speculating)

the original plan was to have a single in February and do a gradual rollout again with the album out about now i think? but judging from all the interviews they've given over the last while the album has taken longer than expected and since it's kept getting pushed back (before this latest delay there was supposed to be a single on May 31st) and i think in a recent interview Matty talked about how he's still coming up with new ideas for it. he's also talked about possibly just releasing the album all at once a few times so anything's possible, but i'd agree that october/november with maybe some singles seems most likely at this point. he keeps talking about how the main influences on the album are UK garage and Burial so i'm hoping there's a bunch of stuff that sounds like "how to draw/petrichor" but as like actual dance-pop songs not just as one of their cool soundscape things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBDGZngMQG4

Extremely tantalizing details ... I would not be unhappy for them to forgo ‘real’ instruments completely and fully embrace their digital production sound

at this point i just want an album full of TOOTIMEs

I'm the opposite, I want to hear them sack off doing everything completely "in the box" and for them to embrace being a band in the traditional sense. I kinda see the "in the box" sound as being a trait of the music of this decade in general, and I'm feeling tired of it. I think the 2020's will see musicians rebelling against it and "authenticity" being a cool thing again.

you guys are setting up a false dichotomy

anyway matty said on insta that they're gonna put out new music in august but he doesn't know when the album is coming bcuz he's still working on it

What are the chances that the band don't try and pull this kind of stunt again? They probably should have tried making two records at once and putting them out at once, a la Use Your Illusion, or making two records at once and then putting them out one at a time like Kid A and Amnesiac or what Manic Street Preachers did with Rewind the Film and Futurology ...

like most pop musicians nowadays it seems like matty is always working on music... again you're presenting a dichotomy that i don't think is very relevant. there will def be some songs from the 'online relationships' sessions on the new album bcuz we know they recorded stuff w roy hargrove before he died that is gonna be on there

shoutout to the rest of the band to listening to matty's spiel before "love me" on this tour like 100 times w/o strangling him

I'm not presenting anything other than the opinion that perhaps announcing that you're going to write, record and release an album in 2018 and 2019 before you've a) started making the records and b) thought about how you're going to promote the records was a bit of a stupid, over-optimistic thing to do.

ok?

man who gives a shit, i barely believed both records would come out when he announced them

I had no idea whether they would be able to pull it off or not. Clearly, they couldn't.

there will def be some songs from the 'online relationships' sessions on the new album bcuz we know they recorded stuff w roy hargrove before he died that is gonna be on there

Also, none of this really fills me with optimism. Just thinking of the words "A Brief Inquiry... off-cuts" gives me kind of a Reload vibe, and the presence of Roy Hargrove suggests that they're going to continue the awful faux-jazz aspect of their sound that suddenly sprung up like an unwelcome fart on last years record. I kinda feel bad about saying this, because on I Like It When You Sleep... they managed to tackle every style that record covers really well, but to me they're definitely not great at the faux-jazz thing. I understand that kind of thing is critic bait, and Radiohead incorporated these kind of elements into their sound really well on Kid A/Amnesiac, but it seems a bad fit for The 1975. The thing they're most best at are tracks like 'She's American' or 'Lostmyhead'.

"sincerity is scary" is the best song on the last record

also the record's not even out yet and they've released zero music from it so... maybe you're completely wrong?

Xp- kind of like how your posts itt sprung up like an unwelcome fart