![]() ![]() The two distinct guitar riffs blend amazingly well together in this radio-friendly hit which in essence is a song based on drugs. Nonetheless, they still sound amazing.Ĭhocolate, probably their most famous song will leave you wondering what the hell frontman Matt Healy is talking about when he repeats “we’re never gonna quit it no”, reminding us of our freedom when we were teenagers growing up. These two remodelled songs have become more mainstream and radio-like, much like what they are aiming to have for the entire album. The album contains re-recorded versions of the synth-filled The City driven by the introductory heavy drum loop, as well as the teenage anthem Sex, the love story backed by distorted guitars and a simple groovy bass rhythm with the reminder that “she’s got a boyfriend anyway!” looping in your brain for quite a while after. ![]() This ambience identity of theirs can be heard in almost every song of theirs, especially at the starts and ends. I love their mix of synth pads, crowded guitar effects pedalboards and washed out vocals to create soothing atmospheres and much like the vocals in these songs, you’ll feel drowned out in the ambience. The opening track, The 1975, is an unmistakable self-introduction engulfed by Brian Eno-inspired spacious ambience which is also heard in the later lyric-less An Encounter, 12 and HNSCC. Their 4 EPs Facedown, Sex, Music For Cars, and IVgave us a glimpse of what to expect from their debut album, and with hits The City, Chocolateand Sex, the boys did not disappoint. With a variety of beautiful ambient noises, funky guitar rhythms and honestly expressed words, these boys try to tackle issues of love, drugs, sex, truth, hope, death and lust that just get you. After 10 years hidden behind other aliases such as The Slowdown, B I G S L E E P and Drive Like I Do, they burst onto the scene with 4 teasing EPs all included in the second of their 2-disc deluxe version of their debut eponymous album.Īfter a listen, you’ll start to wonder where they have been all your life. There’s a lot of abrupt scene changes-but that’s what life’s like.My first album review will be my top band of 2013, Manchester-based indie rock quartet – The 1975. It doesn’t say, ‘Don’t listen to Headie One after Carole King.’ It’s almost like we don’t have those rules as well. ![]() “There’s no rules when it comes to streaming. “We create in the way that we consume-with that same kind of pan-excitement,” said Healy. Sprawling, restless and striding snake-hipped along the line between invention and self-indulgence, their records often resemble great playlists rather than traditional albums. If opening up about addiction and recovery ever threaten to shroud him in rock ’n’ roll folklore, songs such as “The Birthday Party”-partly about being too embarrassed to defecate if someone’s in the next room-deflate the myth-making. At the centre of their sonic mazes, Healy, the son of TV actors Denise Welch and Tim Healy, addresses personal dramas and hot-button cultural themes with honesty and wit. They’d begun by cloaking ’80s pop drama in the gauzy atmospherics of shoegaze on 2012’s Facedown EP, but were assimilating folk, UK garage, emo, techno, classical and spoken-word features from Greta Thunberg by the time their 22-track fourth album Notes on a Conditional Form arrived in 2020. It was a smart move.įormed at school in Wilmslow, south of Manchester, in 2002, the group spent the second half of the 2010s becoming one of Britain’s biggest bands by continuously reinventing its sound. As Healy recalls, it was time to “do exactly what we want”. So when they began to make their second album, 2016’s I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, the four-piece resolved to ignore outside expectation. “A lot of people’s early music has a lot to do with: ‘Is this cool enough to show my mates?’ That can kill bands if they never leave The Hawley Arms”-the Camden pub/epicentre of British indie music in the 2000s. “It’s hard to have that confidence when you’re young,” frontman Matty Healy told Apple Music. The 1975 had already released a platinum-selling album-their 2013 self-titled debut-before they learned to trust their own instincts. ![]()
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