the 1975

pretty solid overall, maybe their second-best front-to-back even if it doesn't quite reach the same highs as some of their other albums. only "part of the band" really blew me away like they have at their best but "oh caroline" is really good too. "i'm in love with you" & "all i need to hear" were really boring single choices, i was worried the album would be dull but it's pretty good after all

reichian piano phases running throughout “the 1975” [heart eyes emoji]

i feel like the reference point was just "all my friends" but i'll take it

ohhhh myyy fuckkiiing godddd @ "looking for somebody (to love)"

i feel like the reference point was just "all my friends" but i'll take it

― ufo, Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:39 AM (fourteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's totally both

i like it a lot more than the last time they were inspired by "all my friends" (the direct melodic quote at the start of "sex" that's just annoying in how direct it is)

omigod "I'm In Love with You" sounds like Lou Reed's "Dirty Blvd."

i feel like i'm on drugs (uppers only) listening to this

wait is this out?

it's shall we say available

ahh

"about you" is very special

i don't even know where to look anymore. is the pirate bay still a thing?

Seek your Soul

It's out at midnight, I can wait.

omg, 'when we are together'

ohhhh myyy fuckkiiing godddd @ "looking for somebody (to love)"

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, October 13, 2022 10:40 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

+1

antonoff should make an album with swift that sounds like this

it's also like, the album antonoff has been trying to make his whole career lol

this record is great but it is quite weird to hear them play it straight (i.e. 11 songs, all "songs," no instrumentals, no electronic stuff, no real genre hopping)

there's still a fair amount of variety within the bounds they set for themselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiZFYXwjG2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCIjNER1aaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQC68ui90JA

live debuts of "roadkill", "oh caroline", and "looking for somebody (to love)"

"Looking For Somebody" and the last two songs are all-timers

Out in the US even tho it's only 9 PM in Anaheim.

Looking for Somebody trades It’s Not Living’s smack for guns huh. what a smash

I'm only up to "Wintering" and I love this album. such lightness and space and joy in these songs, and hasn't really deviated from that sound yet. surprising how focused this album is given how sprawling the last several albums have been, but it's so cool to hear them go this way

yep, they stuck with that sound till the end, with a lot of variation within it. gorgeous amazing album, don't know how this band has kept up this level of consistency for a decade. is that FKA twigs again on "About You"? really lovely section

it's Adam Hann's wife, Carly Holt

i don't like how they're just strumming the chorus of "part of the band" live instead of the fingerpicking on the studio version

my least favourite on the album is definitely "all i need to hear" which isn't even bad but they've done that exact song better a number of times before now - it has nothing on "if i believe you" for example.

"about you" is so good though, it's like someone introduced the blue nile to the ideas of shoegaze and saxophones

first impresh but this is my fav thing they've done since 'i like it when you sleep'. i know yall love the sprawling albums with all the interludes but i feel like i'm gonna get so much play out of this

yeah i agree, but iliwys was also sprawling with a bunch of interludes, it was just the best at it

a brief enquiry was basically just iliwys2 except somehow less consistent despite being shorter, and notes was an incoherent mess that nonetheless contained a whole lot of brilliance

this is the closest to all-killer-no-filler they've come

so far up to 'all i need to hear' which is definitely the worst track so far, along with 'part of the band', which cmon we don't need extra reminders who produced this

largely enjoying the rest tho and yeah 'looking for somebody (to love)' is quite something

"looking for somebody (to love)" is the most antonoff thing here though

*throws up hands* maybe I just don't like how he does strings

I didn't much like Human Too either - the slow songs not landing this time - but About You is great yeah, their OX4

i love the strings on "part of the band". the idea was apparently to get them to sound like "street hassle"

"human too" is one of the weaker songs for sure but i like the approach to it better than "all i need to hear" at least

i liked about two-thirds of the album by your goddamn band lol cmon

i agree that Human Too works better than All I Need To Hear at least, there's a Neat Idea behind its sound at least even if it's a bit slight to pull it off fully

what makes LFS(TL) so good for me is all that mad background percussion burbling away like a barely-repressed memory, which...you cannot convince me that is anything other than the band's own idea

Not sure if this has been posted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNf30EKBDdY

ok Part Of The Band better on second listen

sorry, i didn't mean to come across however i did there, it's fine if you're not into "part of the band" (i love it though)

all that mad background percussion burbling away like a barely-repressed memory, which...you cannot convince me that is anything other than the band's own idea

oh yeah that bit rules. really it's an antonoff-y song in that it sounds so much like the sort of stuff he writes, like i wouldn't have at all been surprised if he had a co-write there. i don't think he's that distinctive of a producer really beyond being a little boring, he very much feeds off what his collaborators give him to work with. but i think he was a decent enough fit for what they were going for on this album, even if i still want that weirdo electronic album with bj burton to be finished some day

nah you were being v nice, i was being deliberately a bit obnoxious in true healyian spirit (and not my usual obnoxiousness ofc lol)

and yeah, the production here maybe isn't as delightfully fucked as it is in their best two albums (the sprawling ones), but it definitely doesn't feel like they've ironed out all the kinks, and they've managed to retain what makes them them. bj burton would be an amazing collaborator obv yes - they're really creative with rhythm textures already so it would be great to see how he pushed their guitar/synth textures

btw i did just listen to OX4 again and it is indeed a good companion-piece to About You imho, beyond even the bassline similarities

i love the strings on "part of the band". the idea was apparently to get them to sound like "street hassle"

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

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, July 7, 2022 9:08 PM (three months ago)

So I guess add Lou Reed to that long list of "things the 1975 reference or remind us of"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/arts/music/1975-matty-healy-being-funny-in-a-foreign-language.html

this is the interview where he confirms the reference point

I love this album but I'll always (probably) prefer sprawling, incoherent 1975 to concise 1975

give me the interludes, all of em

ideally they'll do another album that's both sprawling and coherent

Double albums (in the Old Days) were meant to be inconsistent; that's their fun!

being able to make a coherent double album is a rare talent though & not all are sequenced in as hostile a way as notes was

I like this album (my fifth or sixth play), though Healy's attempts at guilelessness sometimes ick me out (i.e. the line about kissing in the Target toy aisle in "About You").

They should just release a bonus disc of interludes and goofs that fans can shuffle into the album at will. Or play at the same times, like "Zaireeka."