We know time has lost all meaning in these lockdown weeks but it does feel like we’ve been waiting for The 1975’s ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ for ages. The end is in sight, though, and what better way to carry us through the next month than the absolute bop that is of another shared track from the forthcoming release, The 1975 have shared “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know),” the latest single from their forthcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form. Check out the music video, directed by Adam Powell, below. The song is still driven by rose-tinted joy.
this song is shamelessly huge. The aching guitar line is immediately recognisable, the mark of an instant classic, and Matty’s cry of “Oh yeah” – before the uproarious sax takes over , offers perhaps the greatest endorphin release you’ll find this side of lockdown.
But even at their biggest and most uninhibited, The 1975 still keep it wonderfully weird. The first minute of ‘If You’re Too Shy…’ is a glitching tease of what’s to come, broken up by Twigs’ wordless vocals as an ominous styled drone stalks the track. The song itself tells the story of an online lust affair that occupies the subjects’ every thought, with Matty desperate to “see the girl on the screen.” It’s never that simple with this band, “There’s something about her stare that makes you nervous and you say things that you don’t mean,” Matty sings, allowing relatable vulnerability to creep through. Elsewhere, he confesses how much he needs the fake courage of alcohol (“Sometimes it’s better if you think but this time / I’m going to drink through it”) to escape the real world.
Notes on a Conditional Form follows 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The 1975 have now shared seven of the new album’s 22 songs. Along with “If You’re Too Shy,” the band has released “The 1975,” “People,” “Frail State of Mind,” “Me & You Together Song,” “The Birthday Party,” and “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America.”
“If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know”) from the new album ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ available through Dirty Hit, under exclusive licence to Polydor Records and Interscope Records
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