the 1975

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.

Well, his cunning media masterplan is working if it's leading to journalists thinking they're his best mate. It's certainly delivering the arse-licking features, that's for sure. So yeah, I do 100% believe the guy knows exactly what he's doing.

It's the cunningly making good music so people will like his band that I find really offensive.

matty is my best friend how dare u

more like Turriconspiracytheory

I like the idea that making records writers like, then answering questions honestly and at length is a cunning media masterplan. As opposed to what every journalist hopes artists would do. Frankly, I'd have more respect for him if he made shit records and then refused to speak in interviews.

tim healy's media game is so strong that he's being upstaged by a jar of pickled eggs in that screencap

of course he knew exactly what he was doing

It's the cunningly making good music so people will like his band that I find really offensive.

― Tim F, Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Their music and their image also reek of calculation to the Nth degree. It's not so much that they're "cunningly making good music", more that the music and image of the band seem so carefully constructed and cynically crafted that it's impossible to separate the music from the target marketing. In a way, they're doing exactly what Coldplay were doing on X&Y, making the type of hollow superficial music that is designed to push the buttons of a particular demographic in a superficial and unchallenging way while dressing it up and packaging it as if it's something much more than that in the hope that other demographics will be swayed by it, and I include music journalists in that. Shrewd.

"Do you like One Direction? Then you'll love our haircuts and posing!"
"Did you like Joy Division? Then you'll love our black and white photos and our serious posing! We've heard of The Blue Nile too, so please take us seriously!"
"Are you a socially awkward teenager who sulks and writes bad poetry? Then you'll love the title of our new album!"
"Does life suck? Well, let the son of two jobbing UK TV entertainers explain to you just how much life can suck! I used to be massive cokehead, y'know. Yeah. I was in a position where I could afford that shit."

I like the idea that making records writers like, then answering questions honestly and at length is a cunning media masterplan. As opposed to what every journalist hopes artists would do.

Yes, and I'm sure Mr. Healy is completely well aware of the fact that this is what every journalist hopes artists would do, and that's ultimately why he's doing it.

These calculating bastards. Thanks for saving us from falling into their trap.

Do you realise that someone could make exactly the same argument about Chvrches if they felt like it? The only difference is that you like Chvrches.