the 1975

oh this is really good, damn

this is what i want james blake to sound like

ha otm

so the us version of the iv ep is just kind of a greatest hits, all the singles from their other eps. uk version has all the new songs which are pretty fantastic, you can hear it at soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/the1975/sets/the-1975-iv

this is what i want james blake to sound like

otm // otm

some of their lyrics are very disarming

also "you" is just the best song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6q-nvrIHXU

Pretty addicted to this bad at the mo. Much thanks.

band

Matthew Healy is the son of Denise Welch and Tim Healy.

Adore this band.

:D

my man

I feel like the refrains in their big songs capture something very OTM about being adolescent and willing drama to happen.

[this is what i want james blake to sound like]

They sound like james blake expiring?

I am basicallly 100% sure this thread and its contents are a spoof, no way tim f likes an indie band as basic as this

I'd expect you to hate them lex but "basic" is just plain incorrect (esp. coming from an xx fan).

I've definitely noticed a taste-convergence with Brad this year.

Still maintain that they're basically a next gen Matchbox Twenty, except from the UK.

this is an indie band? :\

agree that this is awes

Still maintain that they're basically a next gen Matchbox Twenty, except from the UK.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, June 16, 2013 3:03 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(a) this works for - what - two of their songs at most; but (b) for those two songs works in the best possible way.

Hey this is really, really good. It's so crisp and spacious sounding. The singles remind me of My Vitriol's 'Finelines', albeit less noisy.

More than anything I hear the shoegaze (line of descent via Kitchens of Distinction, though, who were always outliers in their own realm). But yes, good stuff so far here; I admit the name put me off.

Maybe due to age/different reference points but I'm tending to hear things like KoD (and before them, Echo, a hair) as well as chirpy early/mid nineties indie pop on Spinart that wasn't Elephant 6. Stuff like Poole and the like. Not JUSt that, obv., but it's a nice riff on the whole 'big music' trope that has something more sprightly to it than a lot of other bands working out there.

I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City

back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track

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

i have had a lot of promo emails re this crew - something that always makes me suspicious.
clearly there is a degree of some major funding here.
so far i am still on the fence re the music : generic indie + current world studio tricks.
which is not a bad thing per se (memories of custom blue/south ... ) , just that i aint clicking with what i have heard so far.
in a few weeks they are playing a festival that me and the gang are off to, so that may provide more insight as to whether they are worthy of my attention or not ..

I'm going to continue ignoring any comparisons to 3EB so I may enjoy this band.

never heard any 3eb ...
clearly i have lived a charmed life.

nah, only semi

Haha

man ned i kind of want to convince you that you'd like the first 3eb record

I suffered through it and them being big at the time! Some things aren't worth the revisiting!

I still remember some comments around then going "Well think of them as a pop Pavement" and I'm all "...you really don't know me that well, do you."

"Pop Pavement"... I don't even know what that means

ahahaha neither do i, but i feel you ned

It was a strange time.

This music is so allusive of different reference points that are hard to reconcile together. Third Eye Blind, yes - the chorus on "Chocolate" being the other obvious orbital crossover point. Edward O says Robbie Williams for some tracks! Some of the more ambient stuff makes me think of A Mountain of One if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli. Ned says 80s "big music" generally but then also Kitchens of Distinction which I def. hear, and then makes me think of The House of Love a bit. But I also hear Placebo in their emoness and open searching for different ways to be big. And then of course (crossover) emo generally.

Also I don't think this is even out yet but it takes the nascent 80s pop influence to new levels, feels like something from a big Hollywood soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77_BS9Pww0

when i first heard "sex" i was like "okay post-punk bassline, crossover emo everything else"

yeah totally

It also occurs to me that this band could have played every night at The Bronze and handily catered to any and every mood required by the narrative.

I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City

back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track

Oh for sure, hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied). Was trying to figure out remember the sample source for that song you posted and figured it out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Gvptdghwo
which samples the last 40 seconds of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA

hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied)

The advantage of their heyday being a dim, murky horror of shitbaggery means I can listen to the 1975 without such trammeling, for which I am eternally grateful.

holy shit that's a dilla/laura nyro interpolation?

officially i think this band is smart as hell

lol Ned

The "Under our pet-ee-coats" line in "chocolate" is so well enunciated

http://i.imgur.com/OEngTOA.jpg

1. The 1975
2. The City
3. MONEY
4. Chocolate
5. Sex
6. Talk!
7. An Encounter
8. Heart Out
9. Settle Down
10. Robbers
11. Girls
12. 12
13. She Way Out
14. Menswear
15. Pressure
16. Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?

out sept. 9th. 16 tracks feels like a bit much. feel really bad for "milk" and "you"

I feel bad for everything on the EPs that was not a single.

I hope they don't deprioritise their lush romambience side on the album in a bid for UK indie royalty status.

let's do this

I hope they don't deprioritise their lush romambience side on the album in a bid for UK indie royalty status.

same. when i fell in love with "sex" i had a "what the hell is this shit" reaction to the rest of the ep and man i was so wrong

they tour a ridiculous amount but if anything they've been relatively restrained this year with only ~110 shows (including the rest of this year's schedule) compared to the 204 shows they played in 2014 for example

that’s how you pay the bills these days idk

xxp I thought the same thing. Friend who missed the first show asked if I wanted to go to this one. It's at Allstate, which I'd guess is, what...twice as big as Aragon? I was surprised.

They sold out the United Center in 2018 or whenever, and that's bigger than Allstate.

I’ve been waiting for “Sad Mile,” from Mousetrap, to be discovered for a soundtrack or something…

Wrong thread sorry

xxp Ah, I had no idea. Interesting.

every the 1975 song pic.twitter.com/vgkVw6NbXB

— jillkrajewski.bsky.social (@JillKrajewski) September 17, 2023

No lies told

That is excellent

lmao

you don’t hear from me at all https://t.co/jKTwO0ehcX

— Lucy Dacus (@lucydacus) September 21, 2023

that isn't quite the epic clapback twitter is making it. It's just like an affirmation of Healy's punchline.

it was enough for him to deactivate his account though lol

fully expecting the next album to be the worst thing ever if he hasn't gotten over this idiot edgelord phase

he's deactivated and reactivated a million times tbf

The Ben Dreyfuss of pop.

apparently taking an indefinite hiatus from touring after this latest tour but Matty says a lot of shit so I'm taking it with a grain of salt

Doesn't every band take an indefinite hiatus between tours?

Next album: An Indefinite Hiatus from Touring.

A Momentary Lapse of Touring.

A Brief Deletion of Social Media Accounts

Way back when my daughter bought a couple of tickets to see the Milwaukee show tomorrow. She can't go, so gave the tickets to me. I don't feel like driving up there, and people are selling tickets for the single digits (maybe in part because they subsequently added a Chicago show), so I can't get rid of these tickets, either. Oh well.

I'd normally be game but saw them the last time they came through. Hope you can find some way to use them.

As a lesson to my daughter not to just spend money on things she won't use.

this audio sucks but i love them playing "so far (it's alright)" ... a song that has a very special place in my heart for briefly imagining a collaboration between them & dj koze

So Far (It's Alright) Live in Milwaukee#The1975 pic.twitter.com/bsheSp3kWF

— The 1975 (@the1975) November 2, 2023

looking thru their setlist.fm stats & they've never played "the birthday party" on american soil. that doesn't sit right with me

they put out the MSG live show from earlier this year as an album on streaming

they released more tickets for their previously sold-out show here and ngl I was tempted to go but I really shouldn't spend three digits on a show that's more or less the same show they played less than a year ago

the best band

getting re-obsessed with “102” lately

and their last album is actually a classic I’m afraid to tell the haters. the lads had done it again and it was we who were ignorant

“Oh Caroline” is a huge jam

omg taylor swift offered them an opening spot on her tour but they declined I DON'T THINK I COULD EVEN HAVE PHYSICALLY HANDLED THAT BUT OMG IMAGINE

― uberweiss, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:52 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

!!

What is “102”?

a brief inquiry's japanese bonus track. just an acoustic ballad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrqm8F7TgM

matty wrote this when he was 15!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZvF2YEkA_Q

love this performance of this song

Wow! Great application of the "Being Funny" arrangement style to that tune IMO. The only boy band that matters, ha

new song from some Apple+ TV show is gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ZFDJgVa0w

i need an album by the 1975 focused in this vibe. unfortunately, that will never happen.

self titled expanded edition -core, nice

https://soundcloud.com/matty-452970975/loads-of-crisps

full release of a demo from the notes sessions that matty teased on instagram ages ago

yeah this rules