the 1975

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

my mum wants this album for mother's day <3

it's the best album of all time btw idc

& disregarding the acoustic tracks at the end is gross & offensive to me lol. they are ripping my heart out

"i don't like it now you're dead, it's not the same when i scratch my own head"

I'm a lesbian kiss
I'm an evangelist

i do feel comfortable saying this is one of the best albums of the decade

i posted this lyric upthread but got it wrong and it's even better than i thought:

"your brain was last seen
going for a run
and would you sign an autograph
for my daughter laura?
'cause she adores you
but i think you're shit"

I love it how their idea of stating that they don't care what people say about them is to make a high budget video full of negative things that people have said about them. Keep on "not giving a fuck", guys, but on the plus side I guess they've finally made a video with content that I actually agree with. No doubt there'll be a wave of actual good music coming along in a couple of years that will render this band irrelevant and knock them off their perch, and to be quite honest, I'm very much looking forward to that being the case.

we were due for another one of those

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

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, February 26, 2016 10:22 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's on Tidal and Apple Music, though, so it's a good time to be crazy like me and use multiple streaming services

he's the thread's greek chorus xp

the sax sneaking in under the final chorus of "she's american" <3

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.

― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Friday, February 26, 2016 4:48 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nice. Agreed

also "nana" reminds me of "haunt/bed"

Re favorite 80s. He likes lillo thomas. Thats...of course.

Surprised he identifies Speaking In Tongues as indicative of the likely sound of their third album, it would seem like a diagonally backwards step to parts of the debut.

actually I hear "Pull Up the Roots" on a few tracks

enjoyed him busting back at miko re hats as album name

one of my fav moments on this record is when the trumpet solo on "if i believe you" like melts right into the synth going into the outro. that entire song is very dense but also sort of loose and leisurely paced.

overall it's such a detailed album

they put this filter on maty's vocals as it fades out

anyway im tripping

literally?

if I needed to trip it wouldn't be to goddamn Pink Floyd, it'd be to The 1975 and Reagan speeches.

if i'm lost, then how can i find myself

no im not literally tripping

or literally tripping either...

i think "loving someone" is the only one that doesn't really work for me

That's the one I've seen singled out in reviews, too, but I like it. It's kinda DJ Shadow-y.

the sound is a jam

"loving someone" is "so far it's alright part ii"

ie great but not as great

Loving Someone isn't the best on the album but I love the crystalline keys. it definitely improves on So Far (It's Alright) just by having something instead of a third verse

nothing on this album touches "Somebody Else" or "If I Believe You" and that's OK, but they kinda make me long for a whole album of their extended/distended torch songs

*nothing else

Had no idea "White Lines" used a sample/interpolation until checking out the "Liquid Liquid" clip in that article

"The Ballad of Me and My Brain" really is the best thing ever, perhaps implausibly.