the 1975

Is there an alternate universe where this Sideshow Bob-fronted atrocity doesn't exist? I'd be down on my knees praying for one, if this wasn't enough proof that there is no God.

You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.

Yeah, Hutchence totally came to my mind when I saw the video.

He always reminded my of some long lost white Wayans

i'm of course watching live videos of the new songs. "change of heart" sounds like their "say hello wave goodbye." "she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2 but i don't mind that at all

and "the sound" is like their aesthetic applied to disco, and is the most exciting of the three

anyone who wants to spoil themselves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ-YVJ9icDI

"she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2

i'm crying already

the last minute of "change of heart" my heart is bursting open & i'm in agony

YES.

Though LOL at "you used to have a race straight out a magazine" and "I never found love in the city".

They... Can't seriously propose to pass "She's American" off as a new song can they?

lol it's so "settle down"

i never found love in the city
i just sat in self-pity and cried in the car
i just had a change of heart

"change of heart"'s lyrics are all crazy good (when you were coming across as clever / and you lit the wrong end of a cigarette)

oh.... oh boy

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

this is the one

lol look @ me just watching shitty live videos of new songs

their "say hello wave goodbye."

smh at you comparing this band to the greats here.

get out turrican

You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.

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u would totally love this band with a different singer prob

like we would love this thread with a diff turrican

Hello!

lol

"somebody else" is prob the best fusion of the ep and lp 1975 yet?

*makes extreme pronouncement about v poor quality youtube video*

imaglol

I'm in fact open to being cool with these guys, esp after that ep track Tim F posted

more stuff like "we represent the declining standards we've come to accept" pls

Listen to this as well Imago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfyOrAjq4YU

really wish we were getting a collection of eps around this record but oh well

^^^^ Yeah I bet there's some amazing stuff that simply won't see the light of day as a result.

OTOH, OMG at "Somebody Else".

lol i'm already wearing this album out

yeah that was pretty cool again, they're not a one-trick band at all - and whatever they do, they do with exceptional sonic boldness, which is nice & suits them

wow all those new songs sound great

The Sound is apparently the next single and deservedly

"she's american" sounds like every song off the first album boiled down to one track but it also sounds lighter than air i'm very down

i already deeply love this song

[Chorus]
And she likes to kiss but just don't eat
It was so intense, yeah, she's American
And she says I gotta fix my teeth
Man she's so American, she's American
And she likes to kiss but just don't eat
Socially elegant, she's American
And she says I gotta fix my teeth
Man she's so American

head-shaking lol

i wonder if that's about taylor swift

Yeah the moment I saw the name of that song I thought the same thing.

http://i63.tinypic.com/10yq98n.png

repeating that face from a magazine motif from "she way out" i see

from "robbers"! + additional references to "the city" and "sex"

magazine motif repetition already felt lazy by "she way out", at least it seems deliberate here.

In the live performance the lyric that jumped out at me was "You said I'm full of diseases / your eyes were full of regret".

Because Matt's lyrics are such a mash of dialogue it's often hard to know who's saying what about whom, though.

and then you took a picture of your salad and put it on the internet

Got 3500 words with the boy Healy, talking about the new album, and drugs, and his "breakdown" and lots of other things in the paper.
My two favourite songs from the new album aren't being played live: Paris is part Only You, part Every Breath You Take, part self loathing; If I Believe You is a big deep soul ballad about atheism, but done with electronics instead of horns.

Sorry: I should have said piece is published on Sunday. 3500 online 2200 in print.

Odd thing: in the piece I said Healy's lyrics reminded in a peculiar way of Craig Finn. Who also references back to earlier songs all the time. I wrote that before seeing the Change of Heart lyrics.

ok "the sound" is hilarious

http://i66.tinypic.com/2l94bo2.png

My interview with him … http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/15/the-1975-matt-healy-no-ones-asking-you-to-inspire-revolution-interview