the 1975

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

first artist to mind when "Be My Mistake" chimes in: Ryan Adams

the first few times i listened to this i was kinda taken aback by how... soft the album is outside of the songs already released (+ i always wanna die). but it’s musically accomplished in a way i still didn’t expect from them for some reason.

wtf how can I hear this

you need to be nefarious. google's search tools where you can restrict to, oh, the last 24 hours are your friend

mods feel free to delete that post in the next lil while

I had extremely high expectations for this album but OH MY GOD I did not expect them to pull off something like Petrichor

i'm just with my friends online fighting crime sometimes

the "thank u next" cover is incredible

i sure picked the right best band in the world

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

I'm hoping I wind up responding to this one like I did the last one but I'm having....some problems with it. I'll keep those to myself for a bit so we can all bask in glee

that Grande cover IS amazing

I've the same cavils, Simon.

i'm still wrapping my head around it but: at the moment the range bugs me a little, it's almost too varied and very difficult to settle into. "be my mistake" is a very lovely song, i prefer it to the previous spare acoustic 1975 tracks a la "she lays down," but uh i have to tune out the lyrics a little

however "inside your mind" to the end is a remarkable run of songs

weirdly "tootime" is now one of my absolute favorite 1975 songs

the stylistic range is admirable, just wish there was a little more tempo/dynamic range. maybe they're saving it for Gravity's Rainbow or whatever the followup is going to be called

i found it a pretty bewildering album at first... i think there's something meta about the way the album is structured, there's a lot of sparseness in between big dopamine spikes and they perhaps naturally put out the latter songs as singles. the middle section -- from be my mistake to inside your mind -- feels a little soft i think but the album closes really strongly.

it sorta orients itself in your brain over time & i think the album makes sense in light of matty's comments about it being his "sincere" album... frankly it doesn't rly come thru to me lyrically ("sincerity is scary" is still pretty acidic) but it does to me insofar as the big thing w/ this album compared to their others is that there's such a strong emphasis on his vocals. there's lots of interplay b/w vocal manipulation (most of which is really cool to hear) and then something like "mine" which really centers him as a vocalist in a very traditionalist sense.

imo "be my mistake" -> "sincerity" & even more so "inside your mind" -> "it's not living" are perfect juxtapositions

idk these guys have always coded as bros with an unusually deep grasp of the limitations of rock instruments, therefore they use their programmed instruments as prisms through which Healy refracts his asshole tendencies. I can understand why they disgust a lot of listeners, especially female listeners.

idk these guys have always coded as bros with an unusually deep grasp of the limitations of rock instruments

these two points do not quite live in harmony!

matty doesn't really come off like an asshole on this record to me, "sincerity is scary" is acidic sure but more equivocal and self-critical than was even implied in "change of heart" (he spends almost the entire first verse giving himself shit over his own lyrics and heroin addiction). the worst he comes off is "be my mistake" which sure is a gentle acoustic ballad about cheating, and even then i just can't really deal with the "hair/feet" line my goodness

wtf how can I hear this

― k3vin k., Monday, November 26, 2018 5:07 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you need to be nefarious. google's search tools where you can restrict to, oh, the last 24 hours are your friend

― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, November 26, 2018 5:10 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

k3vin otm. do i need to fire up soulseek for this? my god... for the 1975 i will :/