I sucked at geometry, my similes should convey this almost exclusively
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Write your next review as a proof!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
the title track is like an ambient interlude that morphs into minimal techno and then blooms into a janet song??
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
http://img.sparknotes.com/figures/9/9468de070d794b4c203fe8a51bd73917/sampleproofb.gif
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
1975 x (Level) 42 = 82950, 29th August 1950 was the birthdate of one of the 9/11 pilots, matt healy knows everything
― odysseus (imago), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
there's something about you
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
is it just me that thinks that when Healy mentioned 'tango in the night' to stereogum he probably was refering to 'paris'? it seems so laidback and innocent and then it's just so sad. but fascinating.
― Nourry, Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
Healy's mentioning Tango in the Night the apotheosis of what lots of have said in the last six years about that album as lodestar for a certain cohort.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
Oh, come on! Level 42 weren't ever good! Fucking ponytail & filofax music.
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican)
http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2014/08/various-artists-now-thats-what-i-call.html
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:26 (eight years ago) link
this reminds me a bit of what bloc party wanted to do with their second album except kele wasn't quite crazy enough... or not crazy enough in the right ways― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 24, 2016 6:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 24, 2016 6:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
look i love this album and the 1975 and Matty an unreasonable amount for someone in their late 20s, but Bloc Party did exactly what they wanted to do on A Weekend in the City and it was fucking excellent. these are very different beasts, songs about cocaine notwithstanding. like, I haven't absorbed this record enough to really entirely sure what the narrative is, but Weekend is an album about being the token black guy in the British indie scene, and about queerness in the midst of bros, and about Kele's attempts to discuss big political issues & personal tragedies simultaneously.
I mean. I get that they both do occasionally ham-fisted lyrics, and are 80s influenced, and are alienated from their audiences or w/e but I just don't hear it.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
(but to be positive, THIS ALBUM. THIS. ALBUM. the sparkle and twinkle on The Ballad of Me and My Brain)
― no longer in MTL (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link
i liked the first album a lot but man this one is really something huh
― adam, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
the last minute of "change of heart"
― adam, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
this is sort of like a midpoint between A Walk Across the Rooftops and Sign o' the Times
― ufo, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
hahahaha yesssssssss
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I was thinking of Sign.
Also the midpoint of The Velvet Rope and Adore?
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:54 (eight years ago) link
aka it's my favorite record of all time I guess
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
lol
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
I so regret we can't discuss hyperboles in real time this weekend
*indicates album cover* it me
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
You guys have got me excited about an album I didn't really have any interest in a few weeks ago. All these Blue Nile, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Duran Duran and Scritti Politti references are right up my street. I think I'm going to buy it on Friday without listening to it before, just like in the old days.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 25 February 2016 03:03 (eight years ago) link
the title track is fucking blowing my mind
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2016 04:48 (eight years ago) link
you could straight up drop that 90 second bit of it in a house club
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2016 04:50 (eight years ago) link
the outro of "change of heart" is so sublime
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link
it's incredible the biggest risks on this record -- "if i believe you", the title track, even "the ballad of me and my brain" if it was longer -- are the ones they pull off flawlessly
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2016 05:12 (eight years ago) link
yeah I agree w/ that. in general the "safer" bits are the least arresting (though still fine)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 25, 2016 4:50 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The shifts on this record can be quite jarring but the drop from that into full bore house-pop of "The Sound" is inspired.
One of the things those jarring stylistic transitions can obscure is that thematically the album charts a fairly straight, unbroken line of ascent/descent from cynical superficiality (songs about being obsessed with your own fame, being addicted to coke) to naive sincerity (songs about your dead grandma and your mother's post-natal depression).
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 February 2016 05:21 (eight years ago) link
I do kinda wish "Nana" was somewhere in the middle of the record, maybe slotted after "Somebody Else," as a sonic palate cleanser, but that's just my inner tinkerer talking
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
THEBALLADOFMEANDMYBRAIN
― uberweiss, Thursday, 25 February 2016 06:34 (eight years ago) link
pitchfork's review is so lame. Brad should've written it, imo.
― Nourry, Thursday, 25 February 2016 09:47 (eight years ago) link
most of the negative reviews seem pretty dismissive of the ambient bits and completely miss the point of it but oh well
― ufo, Thursday, 25 February 2016 10:05 (eight years ago) link
I think it's actually quite well written even though I disagree with a lot of it; laura gets a free pass for life anyway after her evisceration of mark kozelek in the guardian last year
― art baengels (monotony), Thursday, 25 February 2016 11:47 (eight years ago) link
ignoring the score, i agree with a lot in that review!
Like a lot of When you sleep, his lyrics dip perilously from inspiring to embarrassing.
totally otm but also his best trait
― tpp, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:04 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I think Laura's review is really insightful on how so many of The 1975's choices become love/hate propositions, which she can capture pretty well given she is somewhat on the fence. And I think the ambient stuff (even the monumental title track) can only really be notable and loveable if you're already in the tent (I don't get where she's hearing Bon Iver though. The snatches of vocals I suppose), otherwise I can understand why the instinctive reaction would be "if I wanted stuff like this why would I come to this band in the first instance?"
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:05 (eight years ago) link
it was snowing this morning & i took the long route to work so i could listen to this all the way thru. v good.
― tpp, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
i can't really understand where she hears Autre Ne Veut or Baths or Bon Iver. it's well written, but I disagree with a lot of propositions that are made, like when she says they were "basically inoffensive pop-rock pitched somewhere between Phoenix, the Strokes, and Jimmy Eat World". it's missing the point.
on other hand, now i'm completely in love with 'paris' song.
― Nourry, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link
i don't know if i agree with those musical comparisons (jimmy eat world, certainly) but i think her point is that the hatred directed at this band was never really related to the music they were making at that time.
― tpp, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:45 (eight years ago) link
but rather it has all to do with ppls ongoing obsession with authenticity. her point in the end is also extremely otm:
For Britain's biggest young guitar band to ditch laddy machismo, embrace the boy band ideal, and run on feeling rather than posturing—that feels kind of radical.
― tpp, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:47 (eight years ago) link
but yeah i agree with tim that it's especially cool that she managed to express these points despite the fact she clearly hasn't sipped from the 1975 kool aid like most of us here (myself included)
― tpp, Thursday, 25 February 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
it's quite a positive review for a 6.5 from pitchfork really
― ufo, Thursday, 25 February 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
Started listening to this this morning. Made it as far as "The Ballad of Me and My Brain." My favorite song so far is "Love Me," which sounds like INXS covering "Fame" (Bowie, not Irene Cara) with Trevor Horn producing. I like "She's American" a lot too.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 25 February 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
The bridge on She's American is one of my favourite moments on this
― ufo, Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
i would've given it five 10.0s. they made the right choice
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
laura's review is great in that I can unlock it from the score and it still matches up with a lot of my ideas of what this record does well
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
That Pitchfork review does echo my sentiment that PC Music really needs to get started on putting together a boy band. I mean it will likely be terrible, but it would also be interesting.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
I want whatever machine they used on "Somebody Else" to make him sound exactly like Michael McDonald.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
was kinda thinking he sounded a bit like alison moyet even before they turned on the mcdonaldtron
sweet of 'paris' to cover yazoo 'only you' to prove the point
― r|t|c, Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
WHERE WOULD I BE IF I WAS MY BRAIN
― uberweiss, Thursday, 25 February 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link
Disappointed the one called "Please Be Naked" has no lyrics.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
never heard anything more beautiful than the title track
― uberweiss, Thursday, 25 February 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link