the 1975

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

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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

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

great writeup!

Healy should have posters made emblazoned with "LOL @ MID-20's"

lol i love matty. i think he's fiercely if imprecisely intelligent, guy has way too many ideas spilling from his head. but he is also very much 25 (iirc?). great interview

i couldn't be more thrilled to discover one of the new songs is called "ugh"

lol honestly that piece makes him sound like an utter moron

ithappens i was looking at your other interview with him (linked in the new one) and i'm really curious whether the slip here is his, can you confirm:

Until late last year he was still living at home. Then, as he puts it, "my band took off, my family fell apart. My parents got divorced. It's kinda good – no good marriage ever ended in divorce. If two people had a really good thing going on and they had to get divorced, that would be really sad. But that's never happened once. That's fine. That was a long time coming. December of last year I went on tour and they sold that house. I went home for two days to move out of my house, and I wrote and recorded Is There Somebody Who Can Watch Me?, the last song on the album, about that moment.

http://i68.tinypic.com/2ntzpsj.jpg

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https://twitter.com/truman_black/status/662251447199899648

ugh!

xpost … Sorry, just noticed that. It would have been taken from the transcription. But I'd have to listen to the tape to check whether I transcribed correctly. So I can't answer your question …

oh man see them live on this tour

the stage setup is nuts

whens this album coming

26 February

Got a full stream of the record this week (I'd previously heard 90% of it, but in two different chunks, weeks apart). The highpoints are pretty fucking great.

Been listening to those shitty versions of "Somebody Else" pretty much incessantly the last few days.

get someone you love! get someone you need! fuck that get money!

YOU GUYS

UGH!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.03dc0e03-9f63-11e5-9246-5c0ab9b24133

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV4Wc8BWsAAUbyU.jpg

jam

such a jam jesus christ

i wasn't that high on "love me" but damn this is a fuckin banger

"when i said i liked it better without my money i lied" lol

:D

this is dope (i prefer 'love me' tho)

Wow, the song is titled like they anticipated my reaction to it, so I suppose it has that going for it.

You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.
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you're not giving it up again

"hey boy, stop pacing around the room using other people's faces as a mirror for you"
matty. for christ's sake, i can't even.

unable to listen to anything but this

oh my days

This song is one extended fabulous scritti shake

the songwriting doesn't really grab me on this one but I love the production

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oh man 'ugh' is brilliant

cannot even deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXaU0QzByIM

Great track, love the static and lights in the video, but part of me is all like: stop flaying around and put a shirt on!

Between these last two videos, I can't help but wonder if Matty is not totally heterosexual or if the vaguely 80s new wave pink and neon aesthetics are throwing me off.