the 1975

it's a great way to open the album insofar as you can always just start with track 2

i find it pretty pleasant to listen to, tbh...v sci fi vibe. like an entry from the diary of princess irulan

the instrumental track is kinda cool but so is the track for "The Man Who Married a Robot" and I still skip it

it's not to say that this kind of track can't work. I like VU's "The Gift" and that's 8 minutes long. maybe something about the vocals being too upfront in the 1975 tracks

deej otm

i listened once, that should do it.

I like to think of it as the logical endpoint of a pop idea that started with Beyonce’s “Flawless”.

in that "flawless" is about waking up and this song puts you to sleep?

They should have gotten Baz Luhrmann instead.

lol I think if you said to Matt "congratulations on making a sequel to The Sunscreen Song" he would probably kill himself.

looking forward to the version on the next album where the speech is autotuned or something

all the s/t intro tracks are p terrible imo, so im not putting much stock in this. i didn’t like the spoken word track on the previous album either tho so hopefully that’s the extent of it

i thought it was fine on ILIWYS but otherwise completely skippable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuVuUnYYCp4

even my least favorite 1975 song is good live

video's gone, which track?

full band arrangement of “be my mistake”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u62hnB-6ag

oh wow that's a lot better than the album version

they were so good when i saw them a month ago that i'm actually thinking travelling from lisbon to paris in november just to see them again at pitchfork music festival.

New single in 3 hours?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKdPxXWm7Jg

they've gone Manson!

i think the video really sells the song

unrelated but the official 11M-view video for Give Yourself A Try has changed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzBfBqbSmc

I have not watched the video. I did listen to the song via Spotify, by queuing up and listening to the "The 1975" intro track first, which I recommend.

i was not expecting this. still processing. but i was hoping this would finally be their 'music for cars' album. i was wrong.

i don't think their singles portend anything about the subsequent albums honestly

yeah there's literally still another 20 songs to go supposedly

that's true.

Um. I can imagine that song being fun live, minus some of the more annoying effects, and I can also imagine the song is no more indicative of the album than "Song 2" was. But. Um. Yeah, no thanks. Reminds of the Vines or something.

this is the best fucking band of all time

it made me think of battles

oh man i dont like this at all.

why are they trying to sound like jet?

someone else compared it to refused and i think it’s somewhere between that and “song 2.” it extremely rules imo but i get why this would be radioactive to others

vocals kinda remind me of glassjaw

not really into this, probably the first time the idea that this band can do pretty much anything hasn't worked out for me

This sounds like Refused covering a Queens of the Stone Age song, which... I guess it could be worse as someone who grew up on Refused, QOTSA, Manson and "Song 2" — but not too long ago, Matty talking about this being their nighttime album, inspired by Burial and The Streets, stuff like that... so who really knows anything anymore?

Sounds like XTRMNTR era PRML SCRM to me.

would probably like it a lot if it did sound like XTRMNTR to me

this song has returned us to the roots of this thread.... everyone throwing out highbrow/lowbrow comparisons that build out a compelling constellation of influences

I do miss the 3rd Eye Blind phase of this band :)

This song sounds like Gregorian chants spliced with ZZ Top

Every first single this band has put out has surprised me. This one might be the most out there, and I wouldn't say I like it a lot, but I can't help but love this band for continually making music that's further and further out of what I expect. In any case, video is great

Go figure, I like the song better without the video playing at the same time.

this is...not what I was expecting

hahaha haven't heard this but Battles, Refused, QOTSA are bands I would have bet a large amount of money would have never come up in this thread

huh wow....this is unexpected. too bad Buddyhead isn't around to write about this

can't believe this is them

It's like they sat down and asked, ok, which bands have we *not* been compared to before? And then decided to sound like that.

Still waiting for their song that sounds like Jute Gyte.

huh wow....this is unexpected. too bad Buddyhead isn't around to write about this

I forget who said on Twitter that this is totally Icarus Line but they were right.