the 1975

and i seen the girls and they were all like
"do you wanna come and get fucked up?"
listen
i got myself a missus, says there can't be any kissing
"no, don't be a fridge, you better wise up, kid
it’s all adderall now, it doesn't make you wanna do it"

lyrically “the birthday party” is like the entire cosmos of the 1975 mapped out in a single song

also my replacement copy of the record arrived today and it is an awesome radioactive sickly yellow-green color and i’m
listening to it now and it sure sounds like the best album ever

“then because she goes” is like... a portal opens to a universe where every genre of guitar music i love is enfolded into one shimmer

really amazing how the bridge in “roadkill” turns this half-smirk of a song into the most beautiful and romantic thing

the division of the album into four sides is really satisfying

really amazing how the bridge in “roadkill” turns this half-smirk of a song into the most beautiful and romantic thing

still not really into this one but I think I know better why at least. oh well!

lyrically “the birthday party” is like the entire cosmos of the 1975 mapped out in a single song

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)

'the birthday party' is becoming more and more one of their best songs, for sure.

so, matty is spending quarantine working on new music and writing for a new album.

sure it’ll be out this december 2022

they've been making videos for every song on the record by outsourcing them to different digital artists. some are really uncanny and creepy and some are incredibly awesome. my favorite so far is "shiny collarbone"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXj4XcZBwK4

Wau THAT is the 1975? I'd never have guessed.

everything is the 1975

I think my favourite for now is the video created for 'then because she goes'.
my goal after this is to hear/watch the album as whole with these new images. because they always keep on giving.

https://youtu.be/CcoFDAujHgo

the whole thing has been playing on my mind

Why? You didn’t pay your electric bill or something?

the newest Song Exploder is about "The Birthday Party", time for more once-a-year listen to that podcast

*my, goddammit

The Birthday party is probably top 5 of their best songs and one day the world will acknowledge it.

birthday party, me & you together song, if you're too shy are three of their best singles... also three of the best singles of this year

damn, hoping i misunderstood the timeline but did he say he relapsed after rehab in that podcast? has he been in rehab more than once? only knew of the equine thing and sounded like he kicked it :(

yeah, it seems he relapsed meanwhile... I really hope he's better.

i think there's something you should know
i don't feel like myself, i'm not gonna lie
how would you know? it doesn't show
i think there's something you should know

what a succinct way of describing the experience of anxiety

the transition from tightly coiled song about anxiety and displacement into the wide open, warm, choral salvation of "nothing revealed" is really effective. the whole middle section is really the key to this record.... the only way you could find the transitions abrupt is if you think about the songs' relationship to each other strictly in terms of genre. the emotional thread connects. "if i was your boy" channels the search for salvation into a fleeting encounter, "shiny collarbone" shatters the scene & then the narrator finds himself running back to whatever hotel or motel he can find in order to pour all the tumult into his fav camgirl. even "playing on my mind" after... "i won't get clothes online cause i get worried about the fit / but that rule doesn't apply concerning relationships"... he can't shake it. anyway i find the POV of this record very coherent and can't really listen to it w/o playing the full thing, which i do all the time.

i think that "i think there's something you should know" might be the best song they've ever done

super agree re: middle section! i think it's true across their albums that the run of tracks preceding the late-album banger single (too shy, the sound, it's not living) is some of the most sonically adventurous material and often contains a thematic/emotional hinge point of the record

i think there's something -> if you're too shy is the section of this album i've listened to the most

it's a structure they've used at both their shows i've been to also

for sure.... i think that's the main difference between records 2/4 and 3. the section bracketed by "she's american" and "the sound" on i like it when you sleep is really really strong, whereas i'd say the section bracketed by "love it if we made it" and "it's not living" on brief inquiry is the only skippable part of their discography

not skippable in full mind you, but i'm usually passing on "i like america" and the robot song... "be my mistake", "inside your mind" & "heads and bodies" all kinda blur together for me etc

i agree

i think the genre switching plays a sort of loss-of-innocence narrative supporting role, with the dubsteppy things being the now, the acoustic numbers this sort of 'lost past' arcadian pastoral yearning, the college rock stuff sort of evocative of more recent'lost youth', contrasting with the grey present, the country-ish stuff sort of the adult-weariness flipside of the claustrophobic intensity of the electronic numbers

it has a sort of what to do after the end of history vibe as they desperately cycle through the cultural toolbox to try to solve the problem of our selfish modern existence and ultimately come up short in the face of atomization and pending eco collapse

i like ur take but i don’t think they come up short! i feel like bagsy is the point of greatest uncertainty/abstraction/disintegration but then it ends with a beautiful duet with his father abt the protection of enduring love. and encores with a love song abt his best friends. to me it’s a very convincingly optimistic ending abt how our basic humanity can shepherd us thru the disintegration!

i meant coming up short on a political world historical social-collective level; like as a species we are at a cultural dead end and just have to cling to the glimmers of warmth we can snatch out of the grey churn. its a beautiful album tho

i don't know a ton about electronic-ish music. a handful of records have grabbed my ears over the years ...

anyway, if i love SHINY COLLARBONE and would like to hear more stuff like that, do any of you have suggestions?

the transition from tightly coiled song about anxiety and displacement into the wide open, warm, choral salvation of "nothing revealed" is really effective. the whole middle section is really the key to this record.... the only way you could find the transitions abrupt is if you think about the songs' relationship to each other strictly in terms of genre. the emotional thread connects. "if i was your boy" channels the search for salvation into a fleeting encounter, "shiny collarbone" shatters the scene & then the narrator finds himself running back to whatever hotel or motel he can find in order to pour all the tumult into his fav camgirl. even "playing on my mind" after... "i won't get clothes online cause i get worried about the fit / but that rule doesn't apply concerning relationships"... he can't shake it. anyway i find the POV of this record very coherent and can't really listen to it w/o playing the full thing, which i do all the time.

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 19, 2020 9:58 PM (three weeks ago)

this is sooo otm. head and shoulders their best record imo

you're nuts for skipping "i like america and america likes me" tho

Interesting that you two can find a throughline in this album. I guess I have a hard time when it's based on the lyrical content. But really, I don't care when the quality of music is so high. I think it's tied with the debut for my favorite album of theirs now

I've been surprised how many times I've played the whole album front to back. For such a long sprawling album it's surprisingly easy to listen to. Conversely I found their second longest album (I Like It When You Sleep) hard to listen to in one sitting

yeah I feel like I’ve said this already itt but 4>1>2>3 for me

soil just needs water to be
and a seed

it's the best album of all time!

indeed

I'm bummed that I never got a chance to see them tour behind this album, and with Phoebe Bridgers opening, it would have been QUITE THE SHOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-euyQ0XdpSk

somehow missed this from several months ago. it's great

My daughter has gotten really into Harry Styles, and every time she plays his stuff (which is fine) I wish she was playing the 1975 instead. I think she's aware of them, but is for some reason just a little out of phase.

Has Matty Healy and Christopher Abbott of Girls and more recently Possessor ever been in the same room

fp’d you for that

abbott is like a Hallmark Channel version of Matty

Saw HBO’s The Undoing and the child actor, Noah Jupe kept reminding me of Matt Healy.