the 1975

'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.

Fantastic piece from Brad - TY Tim for the link.

http://www.drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4147286-memory-as-sound--haim-the-1975-and-the-electricity-of-influence

thank you etc!

real nice!

Good piece.

Went to see them again last night in Brixton. Very different from NY. Crowd was almost entirely screaming teenage girls, fanning themselves with excitement.

aw just saw a kid with tim healy's son's hair

i'm so attracted to his hair

pidgeot realness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsYE078RQCI

Kinda like the video. I hope they do one for every song on this lp.

same here

saaaax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvy5TjfOsU

and inevitably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bdV98FNdWE

hard core sax