the 1975

antonoff only as good as the ppl he’s working with imo…. thankfully the 1975 are good

what about Bleachers then

i understand the ease of the pinegrove comparison but to me it's still so clearly a 1975 plastic pop song despite the more "naturalistic" instrumentation. sudden trapdoors in the arrangement, that electronic kick running thru the stringy verse sections, weird found sound bits, processed saxophones. i don't think it's that weird of a choice for a first single, it's very catchy and likable!

made me think of When Saints Go Machine "Add Ends"

I like this.

the strings are v Arthur Russell

True, but my first thought was of Lou Reed's "Street Hassle."

what about Bleachers then

― Murgatroid, Thursday, July 7, 2022 1:43 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i don’t understand the question. afaic when he’s working with himself he’s bad

or not bad, rather, there’s just not enough going on in bleachers for it to be a compelling project. if you’re referring to the constant parade of guest vocalists, they’re guest vocalists

but antonoff’s work with crj and taylor swift is roundly excellent, especially with the latter

love the sound (but not the limp falsetto chorus)
love the visuals, as i always do - who runs them for the 1975? matty? a team? they're like everything i wish arcade fire or radiohead could have more consistently invented.

lol brad, that wasn't a serious q, should have added a "lol" i guess

this is great, i like this much more than "give yourself a try" and "people"

very much reminds me of the last two bon iver albums but more grounded

love the visuals, as i always do - who runs them for the 1975? matty? a team? they're like everything i wish arcade fire or radiohead could have more consistently invented.

― sean gramophone, Thursday, July 7, 2022 5:18 PM (one hour ago)

all their creative from videos to album covers to stage design is done in house. they are true auteurs baby. pretty sure it's matty, george and jamie who manages them/runs dirty hit

great song, great video. not as much a curveball as I was expecting, based on previous first singles

No way would I say this is better than give yourself a try. It’s cool tho

"give yourself a try" is still a little one note to me, it doesn't do anything to flesh out its single idea

This is very good I think. The strings do remind me a bit of “Viva La Vida”, but relationally the shift from the last album to this (assuming the sound of this song is indicative) reminds me of the shift from Contra to Modern Vampires of the City.

who is bon iver

― flamenco drop (BradNelson)

i have the same question

ok i love the song now, bring on the rest of the album

tim’s vampire weekend analogy is perfect

yeah this is modern vampires as hell. these fuckers have done it again

it's so much better than anything on mvotc

(Ya) hey now

Lol if this was like bon iver the lyrics would all be gibberish

I'll admit I was underwhelmed on my first listen, but I've gotten pretty obsessed with it over the last 24 hours. Vampire Weekend comparison is perfect.

what are the chances taylor shows up to do backing vocals somewhere on the album

chorus sounds like the og uk the office theme song

Matty Healy confirmed Cum Town listener

Matty Healy listening to Oliver Houston and cum town made me realize how small the world is and that dudes rock pic.twitter.com/FTaRp7bCOZ

— IVmaj7 (@fourmajor7) July 7, 2022

what is cum town?

Track is great. The opening and chorus remind me of Phoebe Bridgers (that bit of cello at :11 sounds like the "Funeral" intro) while my immediate thought on hearing the syncopated strings was Radiohead's "Burn the Witch." But the verse vocal melody and lyrics ("I know some Vaccinista tote bag chic baristas/ Sittin' east on their communista keisters/ Writin' about their ejaculations" -- geez) are pure Matty Healy, and nobody does it quite like him.

In the final minute and a half they add elements of country and folk rock, and smooth the whole thing out into a lovely acoustic guitar pop song that's far more complex than it sounds--something Justin Vernon isn't always able to do.

Also LOLed at the part in the video where he falls backward, arms flailing, from the weight of the pack.

revisiting the s/t. they are a better band now that they're more complicated but i still adore this record. all the stuff that would explode open on the later records are like little hints laced within normal pop-rock songs and the slight frisson of that combo is still really pleasurable to hear (cf. the synth drum breakdown of "m.o.n.e.y.," the singles that inch closer to prince than to indie rock, even though "sex" being like the most backlit jimmy eat world song of all time is also part of the total effect). the only (synth-)pop-rock(-r&b) record i can think of that takes place entirely at night

they hadn't really learned how to write bridges yet which is the main thing that frustrates me about the debut

& a lot of their stronger material from the time that really demonstrated their breadth was only on the EPs, they very deliberately focused their sound for the album, but there's still like "m.o.n.e.y." and "menswear"

idk i think the eps, rather than demonstrating their breadth, mined a really specific aesthetic they have yet to return to, and on the successive albums they gradually amoebically split into like twenty separate bands that all exist in superposition

new track "Happiness" next Wednesday

god what an absolute fucking banger

the intro worried me for a sec but as soon as the song kicked in oh yeah

the song i needed today.

this is gooooood

getting boy meets girl vibes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR1lgEMMJwo

the video is awesome

also kind of a return to first album style, which I've been waiting for

this is my favorite song

Not stepping outside their wheelhouse much, but I'm never disappointed by their songs that go back to the first album sound

uhh the horn solo reminds me of another song that i can't quite put my finger on

oh hell yes

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— The 1975 (@the1975) August 3, 2022

this song is superb. 1st alb vibes otm

Interesting that people are comparing it to their 1st album. I'd say it feels more like a mix of a lot of the stuff from their second album: UGH!, The Sound, She's American, etc.

yep i had the same thought Marko. the rhythm guitar has that real glistening serpentine quality that i associate strongly with i like it when you sleep. needless to say this song kicks ass

the synths too are more reminiscent of i like it when you sleep

kinda wish it introduced another idea instead of sticking to the one groove the whole song but it works

Really surprised there's not a Chicago stop, I'd be tempted to try to see them.

Healy with fabulous hair

matty talked to zane lowe about how they made the song

“Happiness” is like… there’s literally loads of us in the room on that track. Locked eyes…Doesn’t really have much structure. It came through like jamming. And we haven’t done that in like years. So we just wanted this record to be really like a captured moment and not be too constructed and even produced that much…we did it in like a day or so. And it’s us having fun.

interesting to read this bcuz the thing that struck me about this song on subsequent listens is that the lyrics are far more fragmented than the dense, reference heavy, perspective shifting writing we generally associate w/ him. even on some of the more streamlined pop singles he usually sets a scene or places his character somewhere (a party etc). there's nothing like that here. there are no jokes. i wonder if he essentially freestyled this... it's kinda refreshing in a way, economical and a bit mysterious what he's gesturing at beyond the desperation that course thru the song.

also this felt like a real "essence of the band" kinda song & so it makes sense to read that it came out of them jamming. like at their core when left to just come up w/ something w/o it being an intellectual or genre exercise, this is what they do