the 1975

GO DOWN
SOFT SOUND

tickets went on sale for their gig here (super excited to see them again!) right as i started listening to it. new version of the 1975 is great

oh shit wait til y'all hear "petrichor"

it owns! love that they jump into ILWYS title track territory almost straight away on this album

"be my mistake" has the sort of arrangement i sorta wish radiohead had gone with for "true love waits"

there's so many things i have to say about this album i'm still just so happy someone finally had the sense to merge d'angelo and m83 (or, rather, bring the jazz element back into new pop revivalism)

as of "i like america & america likes me" i am completely overwhelmed

it's like "the ballad of me and my brain" had a nervous breakdown

they really straight up did their own Fitter Happier lmao

*hears opening chords of "inside your mind"* *every lighter in the arena ignites*

wonder if the "Love Theme" part of that track title is a reference to Vangelis

wowwww "I Couldn't Be In Love" is such an instantly great soul ballad

what even is this album

like... "mine"?????????

"mine" is so gorgeous

some X&Y vibes going on in here too, which i'm not complaining about at all

wowwww "I Couldn't Be In Love" is such an instantly great soul ballad

― austinb, Sunday, November 25, 2018 11:39 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh yeah it really is

well i immediately burst into tears at the chorus of "i always wanna die (sometimes)"

fuck

album of the year

it sounds like bends-era radiohead? i love it

this is such a perfect bombastic closer

that's the one where i thought X&Y! so mid-00s tv soundtrack-ish, my fucking heart

it also reminds me of Shouso Strip

finished the album and it really rules, not sure how it compares with ILWYS yet but certainly on a similar level. only thing is i never want to listen to "the man who married a robot" again lol

ugghhh I need to hear this

"i always wanna die sometimes" is one of those songs where you want the chorus to go a certain place and then it does and fireworks start shooting off in your head

where is everyone listening to this? i thought it wasn't out until the 30th?

it also sounds really british to me which i think is cool

it leaked so nowhere that's legal

"i like america & america likes me" destroyed me.

where is this

God it would be just horrible if this turned up in my inbox

"i always wanna die sometimes" is the most beautiful and sad and real song ever?

wonder if I'd like this more than the last one

n.b. i liked the last one mostly as it was so mad and sprawling

this one's madder and even broader in sound, though it doesn't really have the same sort of arc to it that ILWYS did

"let's write every type of ballad we can think of", the album

they just did a great cover of "thank u, next" on the radio 1 live lounge but it was very weird to hear someone else sing ariana's very personal lyrics

the brand is strong

I'm honestly not sure how to feel about the suicidal ideation power ballad

Okay listening to this now and uh..... holy shit @ "Petrichor".

it's a good Radiohead track!

this band's sequencing choices continue to absolutely baffle me, but that's an easy fix

the brand is strong

― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, November 26, 2018 6:35 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Keep Desus & Mero out of this

I know it's corny as shit, but I feel like crying so much during 'the man who married a robot'.

ftr I have never watched Desus & Mero?

"Mine" seems to be pretty handily the best of the many ballads

the sequencing was pretty perfect on ILIWYS but it's a lot messier here

tbf tho I think this is a much trickier batch of songs to sequence

fucking in a car
shooting heroin

i really should spend more time with the parts of this album that aren't "i always wanna die (sometimes)"

ysi?

“inside your mind” is like if “you” and “me” were fused together