the 1975

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.

xpost IKR?

I think people overstate the "80s John Hughes teen movie" aspect of the record, like they hear how shiny a lot of it is and then sorta gloss over stuff like"Talk!" (which I'd consider a second tier track anyway) being basically "Once In A Lifetime" sped up

"Once In A Lifetime" may not have been in a specific John Hughes movie but that doesn't strike me as worlds away

No but it's a busy tune, it's not smooth surfaces like "Don't You Forget About Me" - not that every tune in John Hughes films was like the latter but that's how it tends to get used as critical shorthand.

I think the John Hughes refs are fine - and they refer as much to the variety of styles (it's like a soundtrack album in that respect) as to the glossy 80s sheen. Also to be fair, it was Healy himself who coined it. The difference is the desperation in some of the lyrics of these songs. And the sense that this isn't firmly aimed at one generation. One of the things I get from the writing is a sense of generational dislocation, like different sheets of sandpaper rubbing up against each other, as if Healy is looking both at the teenagers and the thirtysomethings and trying to work out who and where he is in relation to them, knowing he's ceased to be one and not yet become another.

Got the deluxe edition with the EPs and listened to them properly and repeatedly, and prefer the hit-after-hit of the album, though the EPs, listened to in a row, present them as a rather different band.

avoided this subconsciously for ages because of the name and assumed that this was garden variety nme indie and if this is what that sounds like now then goodness i am pleased

wish i'd seen the thread and seen who was repping for it so i could've had this in rotation for six extra months or so.

Adding to the laundry list of comparisons in this thread, it's as if the Jacques Lu Cont remix of the Killers "Mr Brightside" had spawned a bunch've NME bands rather than frankendance/bloghouse hybrids (or, IDK, these songs are the 7" originals of JLCs extended 80s 12" expansions rather than the sow's ears they more often than not were).

Would like some explication of the accent. Anything off this likely to chart in the UK?

― etc, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 2:39 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is quite true for a handful of tracks here, ditto the inward-focused bloc party. like a bunch of this modern loves and i still remembers and so here we ares instead of the rest of it.

and everything else too

and why is this so wonderful.

Alex I specifically brought this to your attention on Facebook at a very early stage!!

wait. really? ugh Facebook stupid Facebook eating notifications curses etc.

ah well better late than never. struggling to absorb all of this.

so many hooks not enough time to jack them directly into my brain

has anyone seen them before? they're here in a few weeks, thinking of going

Are they doing any sideshows, or just the Big Day Out?

i have no idea. currently in paris, won't be back in melbourne 'til february.

Ah, I assumed you were referring to the Oz tour.

xpost Worth seeing, for sure. I've only seen them in NY, with over 21 crowd. Suspect at any non over 21 venue it might be an odd experience for anyone over 30 and male. My piece with Matt Healy was in the paper today, and all the Twitter action around it was teenage girls.

My piece with Matt Healy was in the paper today,

i'd like to see this if it's on the internet anywhere!

never mind found it, it's great!

Surprised no one's posted the video for "Girls":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkubQCI4Fxo

there's a what

never mind found it, it's great!

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, November 1, 2013 7:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

link?

Girls video is kinda blurred lines lite but still pretty fun. Drummer playing with girl on his lap was cute.

They found a perfect lookalike for Healy w that short-haired girl. Same expressive brow.

xpost Here's my interview

Alex! Kind of surprised you weren't all over this from the beginning.

The fact that one of the girls in the video clip looks like Marnie makes me wish it was more like Girls the show.

Also this song could really do with an extended mix.

The extended outro is begging for a proper guitar solo tbh.

Thanks for the link. Good interview.