the 1975

it sounds like he wanted to really push them to make weird electronic stuff, but it was a difficult process and they didn't end up feeling it was what they wanted to do right at that moment in time, hence going to antonoff and making a "live in a room no twiddling with computers" album instead

they do sound like it's something they're interested in possibly revisiting at some point though

i imagine a burton-produced "part of the band" would just be a straight-up bon iver song lol

On the day we meet, he puffs on a string of relatively mild hash joints. It’s part of an effort to wean himself away from stronger strains as he prepares for an upcoming festival gig in Japan, where drug laws are strict and good weed is hard to find. “The last person I got weed off in Japan was Dave Mustaine from Megadeth, and I don’t think he’s gonna be there,” Healy deadpans. “And my plug in Japan died during COVID. Rest in peace to, um, he was just in my phone as ‘Fat Japan Dealer,’ but he was a good guy.”

just an incredible paragraph there

Well they did leave him for Jack Antonoff

poor bjb is probably getting that a lot these days

The 1975 ‘I’m In Love With You’ Debut track from Being Funny In A Foreign Language (Part1) pic.twitter.com/zpUNqPs1yz

— Ben (@fuckedinacar) August 20, 2022

Setlist
The 1975 (Being Funny In a Foreign Language Version)
If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)
Love Me
Chocolate
Me & You Together Song
TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME
It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)
Paris
Happiness (Live debut)
Robbers
A Change of Heart
I’m in Love With You (Unreleased Song)
Somebody Else
Love It If We Made It
People
I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)
The Sound
Sex
Give Yourself a Try

https://www.reddit.com/r/the1975/comments/wt6b8h/the_1975_im_in_love_with_you_live_at_summer_sonic/

here's better quality, sounds great

it's the next single i believe

i do kinda miss the way that nearly every new single the last few albums would breach new ground for them though (though "part of the band" definitely did that)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzzISo0M2bk

& here's the debut of "happiness"

I know it’s a festival set so they gotta play the hits and whatnot but I hope they play more NOACF songs on their upcoming tour

I get strong "Cry" vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siy8PjYqAkk

I know it’s a festival set so they gotta play the hits and whatnot but I hope they play more NOACF songs on their upcoming tour

I love this band so much

somebody on the reddit uploaded a high quality recording of the show broken up by song

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T7uzG3U5AM6BQWp7hWpNVQo6GDrsn8dM

the bridge on "i'm in love with you" is really exciting

and for the completists they played "tonight (i wish i was your boy)" live for the first time in osaka last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXdCLjI9otU

matty says that "paris" is his favorite song (agree)

otm

pic.twitter.com/FJpfZBKbLp

— The 1975 (@the1975) August 26, 2022

"i'm in love with you" out next week

I really wish we would start a new thread for the new album, this one is over 4000 posts and impossible to read.

Anyway excited and they are playing around Thanksgiving here in Los Angeles, really hope to finely see them.

Do you not use bookmarks?

Bookmarks actually load for me about half the time. The other half, I start up top and have to scroll down and find where I was.

It may be something I'm doing wrong, I don't know. But for sure there are pages where it goes back and forth between working and not working.

i revisited notes today. weird how every song on it is perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxGTrxB66Vg

they sound fantastic and i'm regretting not spending money i didn't have on the msg show

no you're never gonna quit it
no you're never gonna quit it
no you're never gonna quit it
if you don't stop smoking it

that's what she said

i revisited notes today. weird how every song on it is perfect

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, August 27, 2022 8:05 PM (two days ago)

it's a remarkable pop full length, no ifs ands or buts

pretty much everyone i know IRL who is a fan of them but not a this thread level stan usually respond in complete shock when i say that notes is their best album. from my interactions most ppl either just fully let this one pass them by or gave it a few listens and found it exhausting. which makes me think that they picked the perfect time to pare down and do a short, essentials style album.

I feel like the stans on this thread mostly are (and have been right from the start) quite invested in the whole “they can do anything” aspect of the band’s appeal, which Notes really leaned into, such that the album felt quite vindicating, almost as if it was specifically responding to and endorsing our enthusiasm.

My BF who has had to listen to a lot of The 1975 in the car is very much not that person. When I was playing “Happiness” he was like “I really liked this band’s first album, that was good. This sounds good too.”

funny, my bf could never stand them and now notes is the only he likes. i do think it hits specific genre points like shoegaze, country, garage, folk, soul that can appeal to a certain sorta listener. (i've made the point before that the album is sort of like record collector chic.) but the barrier for entry (caring about this band) is still a hurdle, there's no way he ever would've listened to it w/o me playing it in his presence.

for as much as you could (or we have) put 'i like it when you sleep' in the same bucket as sprawling wall splatter, in retrospect it feels like a completely natural outgrowth of album 1 and the EPs, leaning hard into 80s pop and then expanding a bit from within that (i.e. INXS rip offs, a bit more synth-pop in "somebody else"). i can see why one would not like that album for the same reasons they didn't like the previous music, but then find a way into notes. one of my biggest takeaways from relistening to all the albums recently is how tight 'i like it when you sleep' feels to me as an album now

seeing them at their Toronto stop and even if their new one is a clunker (you never know!), excited to see Notes songs live

i like it when you sleep was a real expansion of their sound and ambition at the time - some of it was a fairly natural increased focus on synths, but there was also "if i believe you", the title track, and "please be naked" into "lostmyhead". it's still my favourite, the sequencing has a very cinematic feel and there's not many other pop albums that go through a tunnel and come out the other side like it does

notes has a ton of their very best material but the sequencing is a total mess, i'd still put it at #2 but i never want to listen to it in sequence

i think i characterised notes as undergoing a psychotic break around halfway through (or was it throughout) - it feels like an incredibly ambitious feat of deliberately-jarring sequencing and constant sabotage

the sequencing is actively hostile yeah

I spend part of my time in a music listening world where The 1975 are reviled. I'm not one of them. I love their great songs. But I feel guilty that I'm in the minority here. To my ears they haven't recorded an album that isn't bloated with noodling instrumentals I'd as soon never hear again. But in the last nine years they've written at least a dozen songs better than any rock bands. So I keep trying.

i guess the difference between soto and deep-space soto is that i find them much more compelling as an albums band than a singles band, and my interest in them is mostly an interest in the perverse architecture & sheer adventure of albums 2 and 4. i mean sure 'love it if we made it' is a wonderful bit of grandstanding and they have a few other banger singles, but

Looks like we need a poll.

the first album doesn't have any extended instrumentals and i'd be a little surprised if the new one does

but again, managing to fit "please be naked" into "lostmyhead" in the middle of iliwys, to be in effect a 10 minute post-rock suite there, is part of what makes this band so great

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch5naEoMYKJ/

matty just posted a new track on instagram that's not on the album - "loads of crisps"

https://www.reddit.com/r/the1975/comments/x1vy65/via_mattys_story_new_ep_of_demos_to_be_released/

some sort of demos comp might be on the way, but matty also says a lot of shit that doesn't eventuate because he changes plans so we'll see. no idea if "loads of crisps" is related to that at all

i'm in love with youuuuuu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVzVUDXoi0Y

absolute dream of a song

the way they're mixing/mastering this album is a bit of a hurdle for me, there's an openness and clarity of vocals in the live version of this that i'm missing. that having been said, it's a wonderful song and the bridge really makes it

I liked the first two singles more but this one is still a pretty song

this one's just fine but there's nothing to be excited about

j0rd otm, esp about that bridge

agree too

Love this new one even if (perhaps because?) it is doing nothing new - it feels like a tune from Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Mirage’.

oh yes absolutely

Tim, I will always love you for hearing Fleetwood Mac's Mirage in the hum of car engines, the chirping of birds, and the rumbling of washing machines.

Heard the 1975 on the radio this morning, maybe for the first time, and interestingly enough it was on the broadly/blandly "eclectic" station. It was "Part of the Band" (introduced iirc as "breaking new ground for the 1975," because it was so "lush"), followed by songs by Zeppelin, the Strokes, etc. (This is the station that plays DMB *and* Wet Leg, Cheap Trick and Japanese Breakfast.) I guess it makes sense, because the 1975 could fit in almost anywhere, though also "Part of the Band" isn't particularly representative of the group, imo, so I wonder what people expecting more of the same might think of the album.

So wait, did Jack Antonoff produce the whole album, or have credits not been revealed yet?

iirc there was some indication that he didn't do every track? but full credits aren't out yet