the 1975

manchester band that fuse emo and post-punk tendencies and dip them in aqueous solution. they apparently had like five hundred names before settling on this one (which, why)

they've been releasing eps every few months since last years, with three incredible singles between all of them. another ep and album are out later this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Y2FVD5JVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBKqaVk2Co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDGfk0UJw8

this band is great

"the city" and "sex" are so good

haha i was like "only j0rd is gonna acknowledge this thread"

The City is a complete jam, had only heard that Sex one from the emo thread. I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City. Like if they would have continued to move their sound forward this is what it would/should sound like.

Well damn, this is something totally different sounding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpqLgUYBjI

yeah the songs on the eps that aren't singles are these slow amniotic things. there's a new one coupled with this interview and it sounds rlll good http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/exclusive-song-premiere-and-interview-fallingforyou-the-1975

yeah i like this side of them too

oh this is really good, damn

this is what i want james blake to sound like

ha otm

so the us version of the iv ep is just kind of a greatest hits, all the singles from their other eps. uk version has all the new songs which are pretty fantastic, you can hear it at soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/the1975/sets/the-1975-iv

this is what i want james blake to sound like

otm // otm

some of their lyrics are very disarming

also "you" is just the best song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6q-nvrIHXU

Pretty addicted to this bad at the mo. Much thanks.

band

Matthew Healy is the son of Denise Welch and Tim Healy.

Adore this band.

:D

my man

I feel like the refrains in their big songs capture something very OTM about being adolescent and willing drama to happen.

[this is what i want james blake to sound like]

They sound like james blake expiring?

I am basicallly 100% sure this thread and its contents are a spoof, no way tim f likes an indie band as basic as this

I'd expect you to hate them lex but "basic" is just plain incorrect (esp. coming from an xx fan).

I've definitely noticed a taste-convergence with Brad this year.

Still maintain that they're basically a next gen Matchbox Twenty, except from the UK.

this is an indie band? :\

agree that this is awes

Still maintain that they're basically a next gen Matchbox Twenty, except from the UK.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, June 16, 2013 3:03 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(a) this works for - what - two of their songs at most; but (b) for those two songs works in the best possible way.

Hey this is really, really good. It's so crisp and spacious sounding. The singles remind me of My Vitriol's 'Finelines', albeit less noisy.

More than anything I hear the shoegaze (line of descent via Kitchens of Distinction, though, who were always outliers in their own realm). But yes, good stuff so far here; I admit the name put me off.

Maybe due to age/different reference points but I'm tending to hear things like KoD (and before them, Echo, a hair) as well as chirpy early/mid nineties indie pop on Spinart that wasn't Elephant 6. Stuff like Poole and the like. Not JUSt that, obv., but it's a nice riff on the whole 'big music' trope that has something more sprightly to it than a lot of other bands working out there.

I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City

back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track

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

i have had a lot of promo emails re this crew - something that always makes me suspicious.
clearly there is a degree of some major funding here.
so far i am still on the fence re the music : generic indie + current world studio tricks.
which is not a bad thing per se (memories of custom blue/south ... ) , just that i aint clicking with what i have heard so far.
in a few weeks they are playing a festival that me and the gang are off to, so that may provide more insight as to whether they are worthy of my attention or not ..

I'm going to continue ignoring any comparisons to 3EB so I may enjoy this band.

never heard any 3eb ...
clearly i have lived a charmed life.

nah, only semi

Haha

man ned i kind of want to convince you that you'd like the first 3eb record

I suffered through it and them being big at the time! Some things aren't worth the revisiting!

I still remember some comments around then going "Well think of them as a pop Pavement" and I'm all "...you really don't know me that well, do you."

"Pop Pavement"... I don't even know what that means

ahahaha neither do i, but i feel you ned

It was a strange time.

This music is so allusive of different reference points that are hard to reconcile together. Third Eye Blind, yes - the chorus on "Chocolate" being the other obvious orbital crossover point. Edward O says Robbie Williams for some tracks! Some of the more ambient stuff makes me think of A Mountain of One if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli. Ned says 80s "big music" generally but then also Kitchens of Distinction which I def. hear, and then makes me think of The House of Love a bit. But I also hear Placebo in their emoness and open searching for different ways to be big. And then of course (crossover) emo generally.

Also I don't think this is even out yet but it takes the nascent 80s pop influence to new levels, feels like something from a big Hollywood soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77_BS9Pww0

when i first heard "sex" i was like "okay post-punk bassline, crossover emo everything else"

yeah totally

It also occurs to me that this band could have played every night at The Bronze and handily catered to any and every mood required by the narrative.

I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City

back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track

Oh for sure, hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied). Was trying to figure out remember the sample source for that song you posted and figured it out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Gvptdghwo
which samples the last 40 seconds of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA

hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied)

The advantage of their heyday being a dim, murky horror of shitbaggery means I can listen to the 1975 without such trammeling, for which I am eternally grateful.

i need an album by the 1975 focused in this vibe. unfortunately, that will never happen.

self titled expanded edition -core, nice

https://soundcloud.com/matty-452970975/loads-of-crisps

full release of a demo from the notes sessions that matty teased on instagram ages ago

yeah this rules

for the next album, can they get A.G. Cook instead of Antonoff plz

i'm hoping they work with bj burton

they said they worked with him a little before making the last album but scrapped the sessions because they weren't really feeling another album with a focus on electronics right after notes or something like that?

Yeah I think that collab would be great, but Burton and basically anyone would excite me

The last album is good but I wouldn't call it classic. It came after Notes on a Conditional Form so it had a lot to live up to and came up short.

https://variety.com/2024/music/global/matt-healy-the-1975-sued-good-vibes-festival-gay-kiss-1236088799/

The organizer of Malaysia’s Good Vibes Festival has filed a lawsuit against the 1975 and all its members individually following frontman Matty Healy’s protest against the country’s anti-LGBTQ laws during the event last July. The festival is seeking £1.9 million ($2.4 million) after the band’s antics resulted in the festival being shut down.

yeah I kind of doubt they’re going to be paying that

Not sure what I was expecting from George Daniel as a solo artist, certainly not this. Pretty cool however.

https://youtube/WZf6GgoY0ZE?si=2fNeE_EOIZI9MGhg

Try again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZf6GgoY0ZE

i've obviously loved a lot of the dancier stuff he's done on their albums but this is snoozy in a disclosure after their first album kinda way

that doesnt surprise me ... I feel like that stuff on their albums is only good in the context of the rest of the band, its like quintessential backgrounds

he also produced "club classics" on charli's album, which might've given an inclination to how he's feeling now (so to speak)

it's not surprising that his solo music is kinda boring (true for lots of artists) but i disagree w/ the latter statement, stuff like "shiny collarbone" or the i like it when you sleep title track are good out of context & just much better than this imo

final 2 mins of the i like it when you sleep title track sounds like benoit & sergio, i love that song

idk that stuff was always a lil innocuously trip-hoppy to me, not something I ever thought 'id like a full album of this' ... but also the level of detail gave the 1975 albums a sense of depth, like an optical illusion imho

not something I ever thought 'id like a full album of this'

well that's kinda the whole point of the band. for me anyway. not a coincidence that their most homogenous album (the last one) is also their worst

their best whatever other songs are better than their pure electronic songs i wouldn't debate that point, but i am going to debate the notion that the best electronic stuff on their albums is throwaway music

I said "background" not throwaway!

i would take a whole album of "i think there's something you should know" / "frail state of mind" / the iliwys title track etc.

"screen cleaner" is boring though yeah

matty posted a screenshot of “first drafts” of (presumably) the new album on IG story. tagged george, bj burton, jacob bugden, the japanese house, dijon, and jim e stack. trying not to count my chickens but i’m taking this as an indication that we are free from the shackles of jack antonoff….

yesssss

if that's a list of collaborators that's extremely promising

nice bj burton

This thing got unhinged and hopefully over

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/matty-healy-azealia-banks-twitter-threats-1235191733/

moving on…

headlining glastonbury so we should probably start hearing about new music soon?

lfg

there's a live album out today too

oh

Pretty confident with George doing so much production work (albeit on the dancier side) that they won’t need to go back to the Antonoff well again

Fingers crossed

Please

a few months ago matty was teasing that they're working with bj burton (among others) and notably not antonoff

antonoff's work on bfiafl was fine but i'd much rather they do something else this time so i'm glad they are

the looser playing on the live versions really flatters the songs from the new album. “happiness” in particular has a kinda canned feeling in its recorded version but connects more clearly to i.e. “if you’re too shy” live and overall just sounds better, genuinely danceable, tactile, and more emotional. the “part of the band” climax is even prettier live… the songs just have some room to breathe. i’m remembering that the album is mastered in such an aggravating fashion. “oh caroline” is still really boring tho

the rendition of "change of heart" on this album is really great. the sax has such a nice tone throughout the show but in particular on that song

was thinking that "change of heart" might get my vote if i had to pick a no 1 1975 song but then i started thinking about "me & you together song" and "it's not living" and and and now i'm like... should we do one of those big email ballot polls? i couldn't organize it but i would take my ballot seriously

same! I think we’ve all given top 10s several times itt but I’m sure mine’s changed over the years

gonna give it a listen when I’m out walking later today but interesting to me that “I like when you sleep” seems to get the least representation on this most recent live album. that album still sounds really fresh to me

I Like It When You Sleep is my favorite album of the last 10 years.

headlining glastonbury on friday... haven't played live since march 2024... new era incoming....

wonder if matty will come out dressed as an asparagus

Should definitely add an asparagus-themed side-quest verse to "The Ballad of Me and My Brain".

choosing to remain blissfully ignorant of asparagus gate, but looking forward to their new era. they have still not made a bad or even mediocre record

For once it’s not even about anything awful Matty did

This is soon, right? Just saw some story that the band allegedly spent "4 times its fee" on the stage design.

suspect thats the case for a lot of the headliners
(hell.o JUSTICE last year)

it’s in about a half hour now

no new songs and the presenter on the bbc said it’s the only show they’re playing this year

they indeed are at their best as a live band, the sax is very present now and it teases out the sophistipop influence. the versions of “paris” and “part of the band” they did tonight were really great

“if you’re too shy” was the only song played off ‘notes’ meanwhile ‘a brief inquiry’ received its whole own mini section of the show. let’s just say i do not agree with this worldview……..