the 1975

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

WHERE WOULD I BE IF I WAS MY BRAIN

Disappointed the one called "Please Be Naked" has no lyrics.

never heard anything more beautiful than the title track

A good album whose inclusion of three instrumentals astonishes me.

they're good though

there are three?

anyway if anything they were the moments i knew this record was really stretching out

People seem to keep missing the 30 seconds of vocals on the title track xp

oh alfred what do you think of "this must be my dream"

the melody on 'a change of heart' that sounds like it's played on a kazoo or something cracks me up.

"this must be my dream" isn't one of my favs, "paris" makes up for it tho

75 minutes? this is the sex & the city 2 of albums. someone pls post their preferred edit

every track is essential

this makes me think of 'in ghost colors'

The lyrics of "This Must Be My Dream" are pretty confusing but I'm assuming that the references to "I can't wait for you boy" in the chorus are sung from the perspective of the hypothesised girlfriend, not from Matt to another guy.

(structurally)

better than 'in ghost colors,' though

every track is essential

I could do without the acoustic tracks at the end (though the lyrics to "She Lays Down" are great)

yeah i feel that. those songs are very personal & the album is so generous up to that point that they feel warranted tho.

those two are probably the least essential tracks but I wouldn't say they're inessential with the way the album progresses as Tim had mentioned. I don't really know what else the album could end with except maybe the title track? Normally I'd agree with Simon that a track like Nana would be better somewhere earlier in the album as a palate cleanser but I don't think there's really space for it anywhere else on this.

I love what this band has gotten away with: selling the ILM 2016 conception of good pop.

"nana" is stunning imo in a very similar way to "paris" the latter burying unbelievable animosity in a kind of sweet swaying "only you" facsimile and the former embedding unbelievable grief in a very gentle setting

anyway can't imagine being lukewarm on "this must be my dream," the alexander o'neal jam of the record

oh re: what I said about "Paris" and "nana": not that those concepts are in any way inherently opposed

anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSnAllHtG70

OMG.

The second half of this.

"They're essentially making robotic Huey Lewis tunes."

"Unconvincing emo lyrics"

i love how the real choir on "if i believe you" rubs up against the blast of sound that in the second verse that sounds kinda like a choir but also sounds like a hole being blown open in an airplane

that song is...... incredibly good

"They're essentially making robotic Huey Lewis tunes."

taken from a real village voice headline

I hope all the quotes are real.

yeah these all seemed very specifically sourced. Nice touch when they start syncing with the piano line too.

My only criticism is that the brief bit where it switches and the band is in seats watching the audience behind the glass (thankfully not expanded on) threatens to make the whole thing a bit "DO YOU SEE!?!?!?!"

YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE IN THE BOXES

WE ARE JUDGING YOU JUDGING US

Great vid, a little on the nose yeah but w/e f the haters

damn that is a GREAT video

This alb isnt quite as immediate as the debut for me but thats probably a good thing

It's much more immediate IMO!

I'm trying to think of examples of where acts have done this before (directly confront and flaunt the standard criticisms of the band in the video clip) - excluding obvious cases of humble-bragging.

The only ones that spring to my mind immediately are No Doubt's "Don't Speak" and then Taylor's "Blank Space", and even then the sourced criticisms weren't directly about the quality of their music (and carried a strong implicit message that "I'm/we're not really like that").

Agree with Spottie that it's not as immediate. I've done two listens, but so far only "She's American" and "If I Believe You" have really stuck with me (beyond the songs released before the album). I'm compelled to keep listening though, feels like there's a lot to uncover

Going to pat myself on the back for the final par of my review of the first album:

What first appears to be a weakness for the 1975 might turn out to be a strength. You wouldn't call theirs the most distinctive of sounds: you can point to almost all the elements of most any song here and tell where it came from. If that suggests there's still some musical character to be formed, it also means there's space to form it: they haven't got the curse of the sui generis band, condemned always to churn out decreasingly exciting simulacrums of their original statement. For the 1975, what comes next might be even better.

I'm trying to think of examples of where acts have done this before (directly confront and flaunt the standard criticisms of the band in the video clip) - excluding obvious cases of humble-bragging.

The only ones that spring to my mind immediately are No Doubt's "Don't Speak" and then Taylor's "Blank Space", and even then the sourced criticisms weren't directly about the quality of their music (and carried a strong implicit message that "I'm/we're not really like that").

― Tim F, Friday, February 26, 2016 1:35 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didn't The 1975 already do that with the "Girls" video really? i can think of a lot videos like that. especially Fall Out Boy videos ("I Don't Mind" in particular). or N Sync's "It's Gonna Be Me."

still on my first listen of the album but it's pretty awesome so far.

The sampled choir in "If I Believe You" after Healy talk-sings "I had a revelation" made me laugh out loud.

I guess it would have been better if this had some late night ambient synth ballads in the vein of fallingforyou (or maybe a Saturday Night?) to close the album, instead of the stripped down acoustic ballads. It's generous enough as it is though so I'm not really complaining.

the Girls video was more reacting to their fanbase than critics I think, apparently it was inspired by their fanbase thinking they'd bowed to label pressure because they made a music video in colour.

so apparently this isn't hitting spotify for a couple more weeks, UGH! is right...

http://i.imgur.com/VQQon3Z.png

Fucking careerists.

Matty Healy picks his favorite '80s records (note: Contains music not actually released in the 1980s)

"how to draw" is another lovely almost-instrumental