the 1975

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

In this case, I'd be very much happy to be wrong! If they end up making a record that I enjoy as much as their second album, I'd have no complaints.

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I sort of agree about the jazz stuff, I wasn’t really a fan of “sincerity” or “mine”

I would be interested in hearing a more genre-cohesive record, but with these guys you just have to take the filler with the killer at this point — what other band could give us such astonishingly complete, sonically disparate songs as “TOOTIME”, “how to draw/petrichor”, “love it if we made it”, I love america”, “it’s not living”, and “I always wanna die”?

"sincerity" is really in the mode of their r&b hybrids like "if i believe you" (i'm baffled you're not a fan k3v), i mainly brought it up bc the mention of roy hargrove does not imply an album full of "mine"s ffs

also who in the world would complain about the presence of roy hargrove

The only tracks that he played on on A Brief Inquiry... were 'Sincerity is Scary' and 'Mine', so they clearly used him because he fits with the style of those songs, and it's not too much of a stretch to believe that if he did play on anything else, it's likelier to be in a similar vein than not. Nobody said anything about an album full of this stuff, though, no idea where you're getting that from. They may very well have found another context for his playing and I'd be very much happy if that was the case.

i feel like this band has by and large subverted obvious expectations like that

the obvious thing for them to do is to merge the jazz stuff with the live rock band stuff and make a shiina ringo album

I want to be clear about one thing: “Mine” is great

otm

John Lennon legendarily used to refer to Paul McCartney's "old time" pastiches as "granny music", which is a term that I certainly think applies to 'Mine' ... although, I think at this point in musical history it's actually more "great-granny music" territory.

completely unrelated, but Ray Davies has way more granny songs than Paul.

yesterday saw them live and it was the best concert ever.

I just got this but as an e-mail from them so I assume it's more significant than the last few breadcrumbs they've dropped regarding the upcoming album:

pic.twitter.com/7q1rAzr1bT

— The 1975 (@the1975) July 23, 2019

Can't wait to hear "Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up!"

finally!

they've deleted all their twitter accounts too for the time being but the pic is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/the1975/comments/cguhlz/wake_up_first_single_maybe/

GO DOWN, SOFT SO- oh wait

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

According to their IG story, their new single is titled "People" and is out in 28 days?

weird! feels a bit long to really work as an opener like that

matty...........

You heard it from them first: blowjobs are tired, civil disobedience to combat climate change is wired

the worst thing about this band is their love for having a minimum of a month's build-up to a lead single

So the preview for this album is up on Apple Music and it’s 22 songs long

release date is 21 February :/

I'm listening to a 1975 song on Spotify, and the "canvas" video for it is an ad for "People". First time I've ever seen a band use that feature as an advertisement.

Lol at the self-titled track. As if a 1975 album called 'Notes on a Conditional Form' wasn't already shaping up to be the most pretentious album of all time.

Honestly, I was with it until that very last corny sentence. I understand why people would be repelled by this, but at the same time: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050

keyboard plinks in the background sound like actress - jardin lol

the sentiment of it is fine i just don't think '5 minute spoken word' is going to be a good way to open the album and that there's surely better ways to integrate that sort of message into the album

its a great way to open the album!

its art man you're not building a table

it's a great way to open the album insofar as you can always just start with track 2

i find it pretty pleasant to listen to, tbh...v sci fi vibe. like an entry from the diary of princess irulan

the instrumental track is kinda cool but so is the track for "The Man Who Married a Robot" and I still skip it

it's not to say that this kind of track can't work. I like VU's "The Gift" and that's 8 minutes long. maybe something about the vocals being too upfront in the 1975 tracks

deej otm

i listened once, that should do it.

I like to think of it as the logical endpoint of a pop idea that started with Beyonce’s “Flawless”.

in that "flawless" is about waking up and this song puts you to sleep?

They should have gotten Baz Luhrmann instead.

lol I think if you said to Matt "congratulations on making a sequel to The Sunscreen Song" he would probably kill himself.

looking forward to the version on the next album where the speech is autotuned or something

all the s/t intro tracks are p terrible imo, so im not putting much stock in this. i didn’t like the spoken word track on the previous album either tho so hopefully that’s the extent of it