the 1975

It's the stupid accent and the WHINE

Like fucking placebo or something

Lyrics are dumb and overwrought btw

Calling this out for being too whiny is like calling Sade out for being too tasteful or something.

this kind of mid-Atlantic meets mid-Thames non-denominational whine/mumble is an improvement on the lumpen fake-localisms of a lot of UK indie from the last 10 years so i think you have to look at as a way for a band to escape that trap rather than be sad cos the guy doesn't have some great soul voice

having said that it wd be weird hearing a band making these kinda musical moves and having a singer with a great soul voice

but you might end up with what Tony Hadley sounds like in his own head and that doesn't seem like a win

i think id connect with the band about 50 percent less if the guy didnt sound like a mash of every whiney 2nd wave emo singer

It's true, though: if Hayley Williams sung these tunes the album would be A+.

god i have tried sooooo hard to get into that paramore album and i don't respond AT ALL to it, there's nothing wrong with how it sounds but i don't hear the hooks or any way in at all

which i think is actually BECAUSE of her voice which is just...there

the 1975 covered a 1D song today on Radio 1

time-honoured indie gimmick :\

My AltPress.com review.

god i have tried sooooo hard to get into that paramore album and i don't respond AT ALL to it, there's nothing wrong with how it sounds but i don't hear the hooks or any way in at all

― lex pretend, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 10:14 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

same

wow i really do not get this album at all. like i don't have the proper context to like it, is it a britpop thing or something?

acts referenced so far itt:

("prime-time") 3rd Eye Blind
James Blake ("expiring")
("next gen") Matchbox Twenty
My Vitriol
Kitchens of Distinction
Poole
Robbie Williams
A Mountain of One ("if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli")
The House of Love
Placebo
Paramore
("a slightly funkier") Blue Nile
("gauzy fake") U2
Glasvegas
Wham!("bience")
Snow Patrol
Wang Chung
Fun Boy Three
General Public
John Mayer
Vampire Weekend
My Chemical Romance
The Streets
Savage Garden
The Outfield
M83
Phoenix ("but without Phoenix's essential shitiness")
Bloc Party ("but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked")
Hot Hot Heat

― max, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only like about 2 of these bands so maybe that's the problem

which 2

lol at anyone referencing poole (though "car" is probably the second-best indie rock song called "car" ever)

vampire weekend and wham!, obviously

lol at anyone referencing poole

Fine, be that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEVXmzHY1lU

that's lovely

way to make a one direction song kinda sound like a stripped down "angel of mine"

studio vibes unreasonably suited toward this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaT1dWMnCCY

i don't really want to hear or think about these guys in the sphere of remix culture at all tbh

otm noodle posts today

i don't really want to hear or think about these guys in the sphere of remix culture at all tbh

their other remixes are hot garbage so you might never have to

Lex not liking this is not shocking. Him not hearing the hooks in the Paramore album is a bit befuddling. It's got hooks for days.

I have tried so many times with that album but to no avail, every time I start wondering when it'll end about halfway through and I can never remember any of it when it ends. It's like if ashlee simpson made a really samey, really long, really one-note and personality-free album

Like I can hear exactly how it should hit the spot for me but the songs are just not there

p tenuous posturing even for u tbh

they sound like guster

and dispatch

man those bands suck

PRITCHFOKR SPAEKS

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18467-the-1975-the-1975/

Damn. Fucking lack of middle 8's. A rookie mistake.

it's like he's butthurt they kept changing their name

Is this album something I need to hear if I didn't like all their early stuff, or does this band still just sound like regurgitated Bloc Party?

evan : i actually think this thread answers that very question

I didn't mean to be rude or lazy; I just read the posts under the "now skipping" jump and still couldn't really get a sense of whether this is something people are repping for or not

no worries evan.

i did not mean to be snappy .. tis not my groove.

to answer your question : this thread implies that they are indeed ripping off bloc party (to a degree)

several ilm'rs love this album with a passion rarely seen in bits and bytes round these parts, the rest it's a resigned : 'meh ... '

for the record i'm with the 'meh .. '

ha I never really got too deeply into Bloc Party so my reaction to it was "this seems to be like a more successful version of what I think the Franz Ferdinand album is trying to do", an opinion I formed by playing three songs off of FF, getting bored, and switching over to The 1975

bloc party had that one decent song

It doesn't take much for me to dismiss British buzz bands. I've been burned so, so many times (and the funny thing is I usually like the influences those bands are playing with, but they almost never add anything to them)

And I liked that first Bloc Party album, too, but I don't need a second helping of more of the same. British post-punk is some of my favorite music ever, but the revival stuff gets more dire every year

Given my first exposure to the band was listening to the EPs without prior exposure to the singles I'm finding people's reference points really curious even when objectively they make sense - but it's hard for me to conceive of a band who make songs like "Haunt // Bed" or "fallingforyou" as "ripping off Bloc Party".

Oh dear. And I was going to upload the new Franz Ferdinand to my iPod for a plane ride tomorrow.

the fourth song on the new FF is the only good one, DJP!

i can't believe you have any time for franz ferdinand alfred smh, i thought you were proud of your taste

I have a lot of affection for about an album's worth of material.

the fact is, if they had tried to rip off the departure then i would be more interested.

(now thats just bloody weird .. banquet has just dropped on the playlist .. )

Haha lex don't ever look at Alfred's people's list.