the 1975

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

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, November 26, 2018 12:34 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post ages badly once you get to the lyrics lol

incredibly dark song set to the chords from idk 'baba o'reilly'

'How to Draw/Petrichor' strikes me as being one of the best things this band have ever done.

this post ages badly once you get to the lyrics lol

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, November 30, 2018 5:56 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol you don't say

what i love about that song is how it sounds enormous, as if it were actually occurring in an actual arena, but incredibly lonely (bc the arena is empty). its lack of development kinda confirms that it's a thought spiral (which is one of the reasons why it reminds me of "me")

listened to this 4 or 5 times today. i was craving more 80s rock moves but otherwise i wasn’t let down. i think the ‘too many ballads’ problem is worse on ILIWYS

'Inside Your Mind' comes across to me as musically being a slower variation of 'Give Yourself a Try' ...

just came back from a release party in Chicago. 80% girls and young women, and also probably like 50% POC as well, which is a nice reminder to receive when you're a little too embedded in music media discourse. heard twitter mentioned a bunch of times, which i found funny—there's a definite difference between "Twitter Gen Zers" and "Insta Gen Zers" if that makes sense, and the 1975 feels informed by the former, feeding in from tumblr as many of them have over the years.

i am starting to utterly love this album. the only speedbumps for me are "be my mistake," "sincerity is scary," and the robot song... and even so i'm not skipping any of them.

i might be crazy, but some of the phrasing in "i like america" reminds me of "my teenage dream ended"

Ah, of course the intro is actually the piano chords from 'Sincerity is Scary' colliding with "robotic" vocals, that makes quite a fair bit of sense thematically.

Album is sounding even better on third listen.

love this album

what a closer

they shud do slapp happy next

"how to draw/petrichor" is really sublime, what can't this band do

turrican is onto something when he notes the glacial pace of "inside your mind" -- it does almost sound like something they slowed down to 0.7x. it sort of seems like the polar opposite of "give yourself a try" though

god this is so fucking good

what about
THESE FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS I'VE GOT

"inside your mind", "i couldn't be more in love" and "i always wanna die (sometimes)" immediately the 3 best songs i've ever heard

your memories are sceneries
for things you said but never really meant

Y'know, for all of the use of autotune as effect on this album, I feel that the record also contains some of Healy's best singing, particularly on the ballads/slower tracks: 'Inside Your Mind', 'Surrounded by Heads and Bodies' and particularly 'I Couldn't Be More in Love' ... I know that there's been some criticism about the number of ballads on this new one upthread, but I genuinely believe that many of the ballads are highlights.

Having said that, if I was asked to pick favourites from this album, I'd probably near enough name the whole album as this point.

Another thing I'm beginning to appreciate about this band is the way they place some of their older musical ideas in new contexts. It's not just that they have a different version of their "theme tune" on each album, it's the way 'Lostmyhead' is an extension of 'Facedown', or the way 'How to Draw' is treated in comparison to the earlier piano-led version. I suppose the similarity between 'Settle Down' and 'She's American' was intentional, too.

we're fucking in a car
shooting heroin

increasingly convinced that Love It If We Made It is song of the year

Surrounded by heads and bodies is only me and Ross. Ross played bass. I played everything else. George and Hann produced it. And this is the only song where George sings a line #abiior

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 1, 2018

You’re supposed to be like ‘you played drums!?’ Not all ‘which line!? ooooo I love George’

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 1, 2018

increasingly convinced that Love It If We Made It is song of the year

― ufo, Sunday, December 2, 2018 4:04 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know if it's my song of the year, but it's one of them. I actually like it far more than the song it's obviously influenced by. Have you seen any of the live footage of it yet? It gets the crowd really fucking amped.

Agree there are too many ballads, agree ballads are the best part. Also think the album's great strength is that it is explicitly about heroin, which is sort of a shift from the expected coy shit a la, say, Jason Pierce.

Inside Your Mind is so pretty.

i put on the eps this morning. i still can't believe how good this song is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQox1ztjKA

and why stay if you hate it so much?
you think you're well cool
you just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school

It's a great song. That and 'Antichrist' would be two easy picks for me to put on a personal best of.

I've got to admit that this new album was kind of a tough nut to crack, but I put it on when I went for a run this morning and it finally clicked. Not that it's particularly good music to run to, but it really did make me pay attention to the fine balancing act he is doing. It's a particularly compelling juxtaposition that he does not seem like some navel-gazing sad sack, just kind of compulsively transparent, or at least the character he thinks he is playing is.

I'm actually really glad that I waited until the album was released to hear the likes of 'Love It If We Made It' and 'TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME', because I just know I would have played those songs into the ground by now.

Trying to decide whether “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” is more like Geneva’s “Tranquilizer” or Puressence’s “This Feeling”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzfKn-hlZwo

xpost -- pvmic for you and me because you and I might be the only people on the planet, including members of those two other bands, to know what's being talked about.

It's kinda amazing to me that they didn't end an album with anything as big and epic as 'I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)' until their third one. Their first two end in a far more low-key way.

the way they've gone from really terrible music videos for the first album to some of the great ones they've done for the last two is such a turnaround

Trying to decide whether “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” is more like Geneva’s “Tranquilizer” or Puressence’s “This Feeling”.

I think "Tranquilizer"? Which I seem to have bought both CD singles of back in the day. “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” is a lot better than either though.

The first minute of "I Couldn't Be More In Love" (and to some extent the rest of the song) are very Provision-era Scritti Politti to me.

I think I have to come clean and admit this was never a metaphor. It's not about a girl. You know what it's about. And I've always felt weird about it. And I'm kind of sorry https://t.co/FQj88Z60nq via @YouTube

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 3, 2018

I just think it's important to recognise 'Medicine' considering 'It's Not Living' and the two perspectives. It's a journey; and it happens. And you're wrong and you're right at the same time. I love you guys you make my life worth living

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 3, 2018

And it makes me sad because I think Medicine is my favourite song and I don't know what that means

— matty (@Truman_Black) December 3, 2018

i liked but didn't really *get* "medicine" until i saw it live, both times it was the best part of their set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7HzyUxtgco

matty <3

OMG somehow I have forgotten about Medicine since it came out - I keep all the albums and EPs on my phone except this never made it. Can't believe I've haven't been playing next to me/fallingforyou etc these last few years.

FUCKING IN A CAR
SHOOTING HEROIN

didn't think it possible but this songs's even bigger in the album context. strolling through the album for the first time rn.

This is great but 'The Man Who Married A Robot' is a cringe worthy OKC rip-off that should have been left off :(

The 1975 do not need *STATEMENT* songs or interludes ffs

agreed. this band (who I love) should hire me to edit down their tracklists and sequence their albums.

I fully endorse them hiring you as tracklist trimmer.

Rest of the album is obv as expected, great. The closer, wow.

Listened twice to this one, it’s better than their last one but I still don’t get them. Even the Disorder hommage (?) makes me want to listen to Joy Division instead and god knows I hate that band.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MYxNyeoedoJw

this is still going on but i think it's getting close to the end, they're playing "chocolate" rn

this may be the first normal haircut matty's ever had and it's weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpZaK9ApqI

the versions of sincerity is scary and love it if we made it are rly great

this rip might be better, i think the audio gets off track in the first link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfXQN_76VqM&t=324s