the 1975

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.

The only song by The 1975 that I think sounds like Bloc Party would be "Sex", but that might just be due to my limited understanding of what Bloc Party sounds lke.

"chocolate" is such a great track. not too sure about the rest of the e.p. though

"The City" is pretty Bloc Party, but the resemblance stops after those two tracks.

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)

― Evan R, Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:05 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

white rose movement!

this album gets pretty dire for me when they slow down the tempo. i'm also puzzled as to how they had enough material to release a deluxe 2 CD EP. also puzzled by all the interludes (and, upon relistening to the paramore album, the interludes there as well).

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

― Tim F,

ha -- which?

as for this album, I decided this week is okay to meh because I have little patience for adenoids.

The EPs are pretty great, still getting into the album.

Hey, "Sex" is pretty fantastic! Time to try the album...

i'm also puzzled as to how they had enough material to release a deluxe 2 CD EP

idk dayo they've been releasing eps for the past year

pfork review is almost incredibly tone-deaf, so many bridges on this record?

/stan

Yeah slightly unusual song structures is actually a bit of a calling card for them?

My latest favourite thing/s are the "Hey!" punctuation shouts in "Girls".

Maybe Jason was listening to Gypsy and the Cat by mistake.

idk dayo they've been releasing eps for the past year

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i dunno why i called it a 2 CD EP

but a deluxe 2 CD package seems like something you'd release if you knew that the band wouldn't be around in another year

now embarking on the eps

'haunt/bed' sounds like ar kane, chuck it on the references pile would u sweetheart

Please live blog your reax - I feel like, more than the album, each song on the EPs is like it's own reference point ecosystem.