the 1975

http://the1975.com/

:D !!!

i thought maybe this was some cool revolutionary punk band but i listened to them and nope they're your standard industry dreck

yes but they're our dreck

i thought maybe this was some cool revolutionary punk band

Ew.

nos they're pink, which i guess Is a good sign. http://the1975.com/

sometimes i get so excited that the chorus of "so far it's alright" is an interpolation of a sample of laura nyro

i'm putting this here bc it is magical & gives me 'robbers' vibes & i wanna be buried in this song when it inevitably kills me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNQtzdvqU0

(see also the other matt wallace-produced trax on this v solid album, esp. 'dark side' which is a 'girls' clone)

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjzO4rTb2Xo

You say that like it's a good thing.

oh man

whole pink/purple motif for this album is encouraging

the album is called i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

which

lol

17 trax

out in february

hahaha man they came back mackling so hard this is great

if that is truly the name of the album then my compunctions about vocally loathing them might somehow vanish

for a band described as 'impossibly now' on all the posters i'm quite amused to notice that their 'sex' ep ends with a bonus track after a long silence

I've heard eight tracks from it. Only one of them sounded like the first album; that was the least good. The rest were terrific, better than I'd dared hope for. One didn't have the first verse recorded yet, so young Matthew sang along to the backing track for me. Been waiting for Love Me to get played so I could say how fantastic it is: sounds like the band Duran Duran said they were going to be.

Rio is one of my favourite albums

I shall wait.

if that is truly the name of the album then my compunctions about vocally loathing them might somehow vanish

it's really the name of the album

Yes, it really is.

Rest of what I've heard doesn't sound like that.

My initial reference point upon hearing "Love Me" is Steam by Peter Gabriel.

Yes, that's certainly not unreasonable!

I like it when you sleep they don't make music, for you they are so beautiful dreadful yet so unaware of it.

Seriously though, that album title reaches new levels of awfulness, sounds like the kind of crapola one would find in a sulky teenagers diary, the kind of dreck that reaches for something poetic but ends actually ends up being unintentionally creepy and ugh.

It's like a more awkward sounding version of that OneDirection song.

lol turrican

i was hoping for an album of "me"s but maybe lp3 will be their hats

xpost to Turrican They're fantastically pretentious, but that's what makes them so terrific. They could be grimly competent hitmakers, because they've got the melodic skills for it. But instead they're this bizarre art-rock-for-teenage-girls thing. Healey is by a mile my favourite interviewee (rivalled possibly by Billy Gibbons), because the stuff just spills out of him – the strangest, most personal stuff (the other week, I spoke to him for two and a half hours, while he got absolutely baked, and I felt I had to remind him that he couldn't retract anything he'd said if he felt he'd let his mouth run away with him) – and that's all in the songs, too. I can completely get not liking them, but not liking them because of their gauche desire to be intellectual seems the least of the reasons.

matt healey easily also my best interview ever

hahahaha that album title. already record of the year without even hearing the songs.

Haha it really does sound like "Steam"!

not really what I'd hoped they'd do (was also hoping for their Hats) but this sound does seem to work for them - his voice is a better fit for it

the album title's so ridiculous but I probably wouldn't have expected anything less from them

ugh this song is so good

I would expect that Matt Healey knows what he's doing in interviews. Given who his parents are, I would be completely surprised if he hadn't had some sort of advice or media training. I'm sure Matt Healey knows exactly what he's doing.

no i mean he's just really smart and has a lot of interesting things to say

i mean my interview with him was a 40 minute tangent on prince which doesn't seem to me a product of media training

Indeed, but I guess if you've learned the rules from media training, then you know how to break 'em. I totally believe he knows exactly what he's doing when he enters into an interview situation - I honestly don't think, given his background, that he would just ramble without purpose even though it may seem like he's doing exactly that.

In other words, I can't help but feel that every single thing about this band is calculated.

oh no a calculated band

they were a band for ten years before they put anything out as the 1975 so i also think that contributed to that sense of calculation, i mean lol they wanted their eps and albums to resemble self-contained movies.

but show me a band that is not somewhat calculated in their approach and i'll show you etc.

if she floats in water, she must be a witch.

Well, you might think that, Turrican, but I've done around five hours worth of interviews with him now, and spent around twice that in non-media situations. So I know him better than most journalists, but nowhere near as well as an actual friend would. And there is very little difference between the two people. The interviews sometimes have recurring lines – whose interviews don't – but I don't get any sense of calculation from him. I get a desire to be honest, which has the band's manager petrified a lot of the time.

Given his background, I wouldn't be surprised if he's spent his entire life being a genuine and nice person as a Machiavellian lifelong calculated bid for fame and fortune. Wake up sheeple.

I think I like this new song.

Indeed, but I guess if you've learned the rules from media training, then you know how to break 'em.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tuAzsKGELpo/TrLSMikT6nI/AAAAAAAADZ8/H3DTLuBOyRE/s1600/JFK5.jpg

lol the dark arts learned at the knees of Denise Welch and Tim Healy

Matthew Healy was born on 8/4/1989 and so was presumably conceived during the period his father was filming A Kind of Living

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/T4jBzUCfq1Y/hqdefault.jpg

A Kind of Living doesn't even have its own wikipedia page

clearly the work of a master media manipulator

"My cunning media masterplan is that I will talk to you for two and a half hours about everything you ask, without once trying to steer the interview back to the thing that I am here to promote!" Damn, that's worthy of Goebbels.