the 1975

the cool thing about the album is you can skip the slow ones because they're clumped at the end

― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 30, 2018 7:31 AM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah sure skip the george michael section of the record

the lcd soundsystem quote on "sex" was way more irritating because they didn't do anything with it, it's just a direct lyrical and melodic quote that really stands out awkwardly

"love it if we made it", while an intended reference to "the downtown lights" isn't a direct rip or anything and goes in a very different direction to anything the blue nile have done. it's certainly one of the album's highlights.

while the singles are definitely some of the strongest tracks there's also others that are just as great - "how to draw/petrichor", "i couldn't be more in love" and "i always wanna die" especially - i don't understand complaints about the end of the record, that's the best part.

i look forward to the hype cycle restarting in only two months

i get whiplash listening to this one in a way that i really didn't with the last one--the audacity is impressive, the sequencing could be a little less jarring

the run of the last four tracks is easily my favorite part of the record now. “surrounded by heads and bodies” IS haunting. curious that this is the second band (cf. foxing) i’ve heard trying to access hail to thief-era radiohead this year

“give yourself a try” I like a lot, and more than any of the new songs it seems to me like a an updated take on something from their first album, which I have been pretty obsessed with lately. but to me “love it if we made it” is just on another level, something I could have never seen them pulling off or even trying 5 years ago (despite the hook being kind of a self-bite of “robbers” lol)

that said over the past week I think “it’s not living” has become my favorite of the new songs, just an absolutely perfect pop song. you get the feeling matty could write ten of these in a week and put out the best album of parallel-universe alphabeat songs ever

Xp it’s funny, I thought of Foxing when I heard this too. It’s funny that Alfred points out the TVOTR comparison here, cause I thought of them on my first few listens of the Foxing LP

The spectacular confidence of "It's Not Living" gives me shivers.

the intro of give yourself a try is super close to disorder i don't see how that's debatable i mean just sing "i got the spirit but lose the feeling" over it

xp unquestionably the album highlight for me

i think it's funny that they directly quoted disorder after matty previously talking in interviews about how he didn't really feel any connection to the musical legacy of manchester at all

lol agreed

i love “it’s not living.” i really like that there’s an s/t-style song on here that’s better than most of the s/t (“she’s american” performed the same function on the last record)

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/42414/1/matty-healy-the-1975-brief-inquiry-online-relationships-interview

this interview has a few more details on how Notes is coming along

so “I love america” is basically an emo rap song

matty said that was the intention yeah

really looking forward to hearing whatever they're doing to make Roy Hargrove fit on the Burial-esque track

matty peep

"i like america" is so fucking good

upright bass on mine? alright cool. this album is all over the place stylistically.

sympathetic to anyone who thinks the singles are the best stuff here after a few listens bc i spent a few days not knowing what to make of the record, but "i like america," "how to draw/petrichor," "i couldn't be more in love," and "i always wanna die sometimes" are pretty easily up there with "sincerity" and "love it if we made it" for me

I Couldnt Be More In Love is stunning. A worthy successor to If I Believe You. Wish he reached out to El Debarge to join in on it tho.

that dazed digital interview is awesome, prob the best i've read this cycle

it's interesting... on the one hand matty is very adamant that the band isn't beholden to anyone or anything. on the other, they released the most single-esque songs as singles before the album, and went thru with a traditional album cycle, which colors how you hear the rest of the record. he said to me that he thinks he owes that kind of roll out to their fans, but i also think they should just surprise drop the next album and let their music be heard that way.

ultimately i think the end of the record is pretty stunning tho

so we were choosing between thx 1138 & sans soleil as the visual accompaniment for our listening party but at the last second ending up going with... wall-e

it was a glorious combination on so many levels

I Couldnt Be More In Love is stunning. A worthy successor to If I Believe You. Wish he reached out to El Debarge to join in on it tho.

― Spottie, Friday, November 30, 2018 9:17 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah fuck, i'm gonna be dreaming about this for the rest of my life

then once the 1975 album ended we had just enough time left in the movie to listen to Mellow Waves which was also delightful

i feel like with petrichor they nod to the blocky, shimmering electronic geegaws that defined the last album, placing it early on the album so they could move on to their new thing. i really loved that old thing but i love this new thing too. the production is so balanced and crisp and warm with so much more dynamic range than any chart-topping pop albums that get released now right??

i feel like this fits neatly into a trio in my mind with the mr twin sister and robyn albums, all artists i love (whose records were my most anticipated releases of the fall), making these patient, spacious, calmly exploratory albums that feel like such a gift when there's so much music and information competing for my attention

^^^ feel like i'm gonna think this is otm in a few days

re: the intros, the first one pulled me into the mood of the band, the second one made me cry, and the third one scared the shit out of me

i like it now though, it kinda fits the loose jazzy vibe that reappears on later tracks

I'm not as invested or versed in this band as y'all
but I really like this, it's a great pop/rock record

It's odd, because it seems like ppl like this less than the last one but this one clicks with me in a way the others didn't

I also thing the whole releasing half the album in drips and drabs kinda sucks and I like all those songs better in context

sympathetic to anyone who thinks the singles are the best stuff here after a few listens bc i spent a few days not knowing what to make of the record, but "i like america," "how to draw/petrichor," "i couldn't be more in love," and "i always wanna die sometimes" are pretty easily up there with "sincerity" and "love it if we made it" for me

― princess of hell (BradNelson)

otm

i know it's probably too early to do this, but what the hell.

a possible top:

love it if we made it
i like america & america likes me
it’s not living (if it’s not with you)
i always wanna die (sometimes)
sincerity is scary
i couldn’t be more in love
TooTimeTooTimeTooTime
how to draw / petrichor
surround by heads and bodies
mine
give yourself a try
inside your mind
be my mistake
the man who married a robot / love theme

Reading that Dazed interview ... would any reviews have mentioned OK Computer had there not been a robot-voiced spoken word track? Because I otherwise don't hear OK Computer at all, any more than I heard it in the last record, which was also not at all.

lots of gorgeous music on this album

Matt Healy has talked about his goals for The 1975's third album, and he's used Radiohead's OK Computer and The Smiths The Queen Is Dead as an example of what he's aiming for.

As reported by NME, speaking in the latest issue of Q Magazine, the frontman revealed: “If you look at third albums, OK Computer or The Queen Is Dead, that’s what we need to do.”

and i
always wanna diiiiiiiiie
sometiiiimes
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Matt Healy could have said he was aiming for TLC's "Crazysexycool" and Tom Petty's "Long After Dark" and we'd see that popping up in reviews, too.

"Sincerity is Scary" has some drunken J. Dilla production vibes.

Listening to "Surrounded By Heads And Bodies" I can believe in a music journalist making the mental leap to Radiohead while listening to it, or even Healy making the mental leap while writing it

Maybe? I don't really hear it. Vs. "The Man Who Married a Robot," which yeah, that was done on purpose.

there’s some radioheadey moments on here, fewer than on ILIWYS tho

Yeah, yet I don't recall anyone really bringing up Radiohead with the last album, either.

Give Yourself A Try sounds a lot like Radio Dept to me

"Sincerity is Scary" has some drunken J. Dilla production vibes.

reminds me of donnie trumpet's surf

Oh wait, you mean those few measures of sort of menacing stuff in "Surrounded By Heads And Bodies?" Yeah, fleeting, but it's there!

also "i always wanna die" doesn't not sound like bends-era radiohead

i really think 'love it if we made it' is one of the best songs on here, replay value wise especially ... i feel like ppl diverge from it because its so trad compared to some of the more outlier type musical choices but lyrically + musically it's an exceptional emotional experience

doh I meant "give yourself a try"

obv everyone loves 'love it if we made it.' 'give yourself a try' is more trad-1975 but i think it's a really incredible version of that.

not saying the album doesn't live up to it or anything -- i need to spend more time w it -- just reacting to tracklist rankings that suggest 'give yourself a try' is bottom tier

i love all of the bright little guitar embellishments that burn behind the "disorder" riff around the second verse/chorus

i would love an ep or short alb of ‘give yourself a try’ type stuff