the 1975

I've been persuaded, slightly against my better judgment, to go to another show in Manchester next week by their publicist.

#1 in Amerikay

hello all -- i appeared on my wonderful colleagues crystal + megan's podcast #SWOONSTEP talking about the new album along with a couple other fabulous ladies; forgive me for all my ums, likes, and you knows: http://swoonstep.tumblr.com/post/140747913707/roundtable-the-1975s-i-like-it-when-you-sleep

it's ok josh even professionals um like and you

you know*

anyway excited to listen to that later!

the name of the guy who did the art for the album x_x https://www.instagram.com/davidndrake/

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2016/february/shooting-for-the-1975/

"The Sound" is top ten on the rock songs chart but still nowhere to be found in the hot 100 (U.S.).

it's #3 on the bubbling under chart this week

RIGHT here we go

:D

surprisingly, this is well good yeah

approx. 3500x better than album 1

album 1 did not have an ambient mariachi interlude called 'please be naked' for one

*waits patiently for lj to get to the title track*

yeah that was great! gf all 'this is their pinkshinyultrablast song' haha

ok that was great. maybe the most ambitious boy-band album ever?

b4 u gooooo

what makes them a boy band?

They have too many young female fans, obviously.

this is on spotify now btw https://open.spotify.com/album/1JFmNyVPdBF1ECvv4fhpW4

just in time for me to cancel my tidal subscription

tfw you're not even 3 months into 2016 and you've already found your favourite album of all time

^^^^^

Ok, this is pretty great so far.

I want to poll the new album so bad but it's too sooooooon

bought the album on vinyl and digging it, but it didn't come w/ a download code. before i write 'em to ask for one, just wanted to make sure others' did ... or didn't. thx!

I recently got the first album new and that didn't come with one. I'm waiting to try and find a copy below $40 before I get the new album. If it doesn't come with a code that is absolutely ridiculous considering the price.

i bought the latest album on vinyl and it came with a download code!

I'm waiting to try and find a copy below $40

This is a joke, right? You're not seriously telling me that the vinyl costs four times as much as the CD?

This is extremely common nowadays.

Unfortunately I'm not joking about that price. Most modern records it's usually $12 for the CD and around $20 for the vinyl which seems reasonable to me. There are exceptions and this is sadly one of them.

from my very cursory investigation it looked like they actually tried to make the packaging for the i like it when you sleep vinyl actually worth the $40 where a lot of times it's just a record in a sleeve with a single piece of paper

and at least it's legit double album length, not like the recent trend of distributing albums that barely break 40 mins over four sides of vinyl.

this video is so fukkin dope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trbwqF0d7NA

does anyone know what its referencing? i assume something specific

such a good video

listened for the first time this morning, cool album
this track and the title track early favs

Inspirations, from the hand typed PR from Matthew …

Fellini - The Clown (1970)
(make up/facial expressions/era/mood)
Michael Jackson as Charlie Chaplin
(Smile/childhood/messages of a better world)
Gene Kelly (Not as smooth, less confidence)
Bob Fosse (youtube various clips of Bob Fosse dancing. Around 6mins, the duet)
The Wiz (the way the feet shuffle when they walk up the yellow brick road for the first time)
The Cloud
www.richardclarkson.com
Robbers
la poesie est dans la rue
sense of resignation.
I want to convey the resignation in being a clown. i am have been and will always be a clown. i think it can tire people.
for the sake of subtext and self reference it should be in black and white. also more chic

i guess i should see the clown

Just been listening to my "highlights" of the second album and I think this flows nicely:

The 1975
UGH!
A Change of Heart
She's American
Please Be Naked
Lostmyhead
The Ballad of Me and My Brain
Somebody Else
I Like it When You Sleep...
The Sound
This Must Be My Dream

Hardly radical. Would maybe move "I Like It..." to the end.

no paris no credibility

Ah, good point well made.

The 1975
UGH!
A Change of Heart
She's American
The Sound
Please Be Naked
Lostmyhead
The Ballad of Me and My Brain
Somebody Else
This Must Be My Dream
Paris
I Like it When You Sleep...

no 1975 at all maximum credibility

No more changes

ideal version of this album has "The Ballad of Me and My Brain" play three times in a row.

But apart from that the correct short version of this album is:

I Like it When You Sleep...
The Sound
If I Believe You (HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF)
UGH!
She's American
Please Be Naked
Lostmyhead
The Ballad of Me and My Brain
This Must Be My Dream
Paris
Somebody Else
A Change of Heart (with extra two minutes of the final guitar loop)

Brad's right. No Paris, no credibility.

the lack of "nana", you're all psychopaths

If I believe you is a top 3 song...

yes

i like that in everyone's short version of the album no one got rid of the three long mostly instrumental tracks