the 1975

"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.

'so far / it's alright' posits them as black butter's fun boy three

'fallingforyou' gated drums could be anything, i will ambitiously stretch for maybe an imaginary extended 12" mix of peter gabriel / k8 bush 'don't give up'

excuse me while i put that last one on again cos it was really very good

Haha "black butter's fun boy three" is spot on.

"falllngforyou" makes me think of "let's go out tonight"

these fucking eps... i knew they'd be a bit different but i'm just sitting here like

http://i.imgur.com/TnH1c4N.gif

I'm saying, bro.

what's with shipley's silence on these kids?

― k3vin k., Friday, August 30, 2013 7:54 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

way too british for shipley right?

― J0rdan S., Friday, August 30, 2013 7:55 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol called it

not that i ever would've even thought to listen to something with this kind of buzz around it but it assaulted my ears in a youtube ad

buzz is mostly itt only it seems like

Do the Brits hate these guys?

idk any new band reviewed on pitchfork is a red flag for me

pitchfork mostly dislike them it seems

#stoppedclock

#irony

#burn

What a horrible sound this band have.

xpost Brits hate them so much the album went straight in at No 1

that's prob just from the amount of ilx mentions it's got. they count those now.

i listened to the EPs expecting to have rtc levels of revelation, but i just ended up liking all the same songs i liked off the lp. which is to say, i think this band has produced a really solid EP's worth of songs but not much more.

i will ambitiously stretch for maybe an imaginary extended 12" mix of peter gabriel / k8 bush 'don't give up'

my entire thesis

count me in altho I'm most just in love with "Chocolate" and "The City" right now

that neon skyline shriek over the chorus to 'the city' is something i can never get enough of. when you realise it's not skins but akira

plus, plus those fuckin drumz. rick rubin and juan atkins couldn't have co-produced it better

Minus the few interludestrumentals, I'd have to go with this atm:

The City > Girls > Heart Out > Chocolate > Sex > Menswear > Pressure > Settle Down > M.O.N.E.Y. > Robbers > Talk > Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You > She Way Out

is it just me or does anybody else hear philly boy roy in the vocals to "chocolate"?

Wasn't paying any attention to these guys til I heard "Sex" a few weeks ago. The album is a lot more restrained and mid tempo than the single would suggest, so consider me disappointed upon my first listen. I'll give it another shot, though.

Just interviewed Matt Healy. Really interesting young guy; very vivid and passionate - desperate to explain himself, and his music. Completely unashamed about wanting to make big pop music. And really concerned about the responsibilities- which he obviously hadn't foreseen - that come with becoming a big pop star who kids think is a fount of wisdom. Enjoyed the show at Bowery Ballroom last night; going again tonight.

oh man i wish i could've seen them

i interviewed him last month but uh that piece never saw the light of day for reasons mostly owing to my own discipline. great interview

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

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:43 (1 month ago) Bookmark

http://soundcloud.com/the1975/pressure-artful-remix

oh go on then if u really insist

'chocolate' sometimes feels like their most inscrutable miracle, like it's hard to fathom how its jaunty indie urchin ingredients don't add up to something pretty appalling

in the end it seems kind of meta almost, listener dazedly intoxicated by the sickly sweet "oh my hair smells like chocolate" rush in the middle of an inadvisable caper

GOT get it GOT get it GOT get it GO... and play it cool

nevertheless, add busted to the refs list

also fennesz for half of the music for cars ep

http://soundcloud.com/the1975/pressure-artful-remix

AHHHHH this is perfect. Really runs with the MOR-garage sound Artful established with "Could Just Be The Dancefloor".

And so telling that you can mention Busted and Fennesz in the same post.

haha ikr, immediately after posting i settled on b x f as my go-to line on them should my irl opinion ever be called upon (even if it is imprecise)

i hope it's not just me that listens to 'anobrain' and finds "we take your mum's car to the edge of the town... and we driiiiive" embarrassingly emotive

It is! Also the gentleness of the multitracked vocals on that tune and stuff like "fallingforyou" feels more precious now given they didn't explore that side at all on the album.

that artful remix

Was listening to album again this afternoon. At 12 tracks it would have been a perfect pop record. So many great moments.