i know right.
There's a WTM album that predates the 1975 but IDK what I've heard sounds like they were more post-DFA meets Gypsy & The Cat or something.
They seem really Australian to me? Surprised to learn they're from Ohio.
― Tim F, Friday, 13 March 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
New album's been demoed.People wanting a fix, should listen to this, produced by Healy and the drummer from the 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPNesOJ9KQ
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 16 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
figured someone would share the japanese house song. it sounds really nice, chorus is kind of a mess though
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 16 March 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
probably bc they're pulling from the same palette but there are some 1975 vibes on the new jam city record
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
Oooh is that out yet?
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
listening to the first few songs in this thread and getting real confused by the comparisons i'm seeing. (a better james blake??) 3eb is kinda fair (not debut-level, though, at least not the good songs off that), but for the most part sounds like just about any american apparel model band...what am i missing? someone show me the finesse
i knew them before as the band beloved by k-pop queen ga-in (reason i checked this thread), though...so good for them.
― soyrev, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
those songs probably aren't the most representative, especially of the EPs which is where that really nice late night Blue Nile vibe is strongest. see fallingforyou and Haunt//Bed for probably the best examples of that. i just wish his voice wasn't so yelpy, it can really clash with that, and sometimes the guitar tone feels just too thin?
― ufo, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 07:16 (nine years ago) link
Also "Me" which is not remotely yelpy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0xlyLwK7Q
― Tim F, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
monotony: the jam city record is streaming here http://hypem.com/premiere/jam+city
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
iirc "a better james blake" was a comparison someone made while talking about "head.cars.bending" so i'd maybe listen to that one
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
i guess "chocolate" is a pretty accurate portrait of how the album generally sounds, but also not really, what with "talk," "menswear," "m.o.n.e.y."
think the comparisons in this thread are less confusing than representative of the breadth of music this band has recorded, and also the richness even within their relatively narrow john hughes-y stuff
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
wow Walk the Moon totally sound/look like the Hip™ for Basics version of The 1975
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Oh ha, they're mentioned 4 posts into that thread.
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that is spot on.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
Lincecum’s new ’do: Tim Lincecum arrived at work with much shorter hair, courtesy of the barber who recently trimmed Hunter Pence’s curls. “I don’t get haircuts very often,” Lincecum said. “It’s my third one in two years.”
The pitcher said he was inspired by British musician Matthew Healy of the rock band The 1975.
― errant flynn, Saturday, 18 April 2015 05:38 (nine years ago) link
This song sound to me very post-the 1975:
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ediiYvgEmaM
― Nourry, Monday, 4 May 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
LMAO wow yeah hope they got co writing credit on that
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 4 May 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
this is good, they should make more songs like this
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 May 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
i like the other stuff too (don't stop and kiss me kiss me are my favs - i'm gonna see them live tonight) but this Is by far their best song. It would be awesome if they did more songs like this one (it's a bside from 'she Looks so perfect' single )but i doubt that will happen.this was written by two of them with all time low's alex gaskarth.
― Nourry, Monday, 4 May 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
Latest news on the album: they're off to LA early next month for four months to record it. Lots of stuff demoed, but at this stage the shape of the album is yet to be determined. Talk of combining big major chord progressions with despairing lyrics. Healy currently obsessed with trap and Young Thug in particular, though that doesn't seem likely to make itself felt in the record.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Sunday, 17 May 2015 05:43 (nine years ago) link
We didn't even get to say goodbye.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Sunday, 31 May 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
whoa what the hell
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 May 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Good riddance.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 June 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 1 June 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Honestly hope it frees the couple of members who worked on The Japanese House to do more things of that ilk.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 June 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
Are they splitting up or just being really dramatic about a second album image and sound change?
― Greer, Monday, 1 June 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
think it's the latter
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 1 June 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qff8tTA.png
I will reluctantly give them a thumbs up if they come back named The 1976.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 June 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
you shush
tweet has already been deleted but so has matt's twitter acct?
;_; i hope its not true
just japes right boyz birovva larff eh pleeez
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 June 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
i know they'd been together for about 10 years before the album but is the project mostly driven by healy or are the other members essential?
regardless my inclination is that this is just to drum up publicity for new material
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Monday, 1 June 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
iirc the main composers are healy and the drummer whose name i can never remember
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 1 June 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
:(
― Spottie, Monday, 1 June 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
Second album's been demoed. Recording starts this week. This is all a big tease.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 1 June 2015 07:53 (nine years ago) link
http://the1975.com/
― groovypanda, Monday, 1 June 2015 08:23 (nine years ago) link
:D !!!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
i thought maybe this was some cool revolutionary punk band but i listened to them and nope they're your standard industry dreck
― example (crüt), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
yes but they're our dreck
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 June 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
i thought maybe this was some cool revolutionary punk band
Ew.
― Greer, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
nos they're pink, which i guess Is a good sign. http://the1975.com/
― Nourry, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
sometimes i get so excited that the chorus of "so far it's alright" is an interpolation of a sample of laura nyro
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 July 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
i'm putting this here bc it is magical & gives me 'robbers' vibes & i wanna be buried in this song when it inevitably kills me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNQtzdvqU0
(see also the other matt wallace-produced trax on this v solid album, esp. 'dark side' which is a 'girls' clone)
― uberweiss, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjzO4rTb2Xo
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
You say that like it's a good thing.
― Turrican, Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
oh man
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
whole pink/purple motif for this album is encouraging
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
the album is called i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
which
17 trax
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
out in february
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
hahaha man they came back mackling so hard this is great
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
if that is truly the name of the album then my compunctions about vocally loathing them might somehow vanish
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
for a band described as 'impossibly now' on all the posters i'm quite amused to notice that their 'sex' ep ends with a bonus track after a long silence
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link