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The 1975 – ” If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know) “

Posted: April 23, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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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

The 1975 feat PHOEBE BRIDGERS – ” Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America “

Posted: April 5, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The beautiful new song ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’ is The 1975 at their most fragile and vulnerable,
The haunting acoustic track is taken from the band’s upcoming new album ‘Notes On A Conditional Form”.

Each of the singles released so far from Matty Healy and co.’s upcoming album ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ bears a sense of Devil-may-care abandon. ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’, the band’s latest release, featuring the vocals of heart-breaker Phoebe Bridgers, is yet another change of pace from a gang who cherish the unexpected. Stripped down to mostly vocals and acoustic guitar, this track is the simplest song The 1975 have put their name to since Nana’ (from  2016 album ‘I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It’) but that just allows its haunting beauty to shine.

Leaning into Matty’s desire to create something like Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’, it’s stark and personal, made for the comforting embrace of headphones. They’ve played it at live sessions previously and, for a band who embrace being fluid, it’s a testament to the power of ‘Jesus Christ 2005…’ that it hasn’t been tinkered with too much. Its sparseness allows the weighty lyrics room to fully flex.

Balancing at the point of heartbreak, the track sees Matty pondering faith, love and belief. “I’m in love with Jesus Christ,” he sings. “I’m in love with a boy I know but that’s a feeling I can never show.” It’s a world away from the buoyant skip of ‘Me And You Together Song lines, “It’s OK – lots of people think I’m gay but we’re friends, so it’s cool / Why would it not be?”, and packs a gut-wrenching punch. The always-excellent Phoebe Bridgers really elevates the track, though, adding a new point of view. The 1975 have always wanted to soundtracks moments in peoples’ lives and typically that comes in the form of a sense of celebration, but ‘Jesus Christ 2005’ sees them flirt with defeat. It’s fragile and vulnerable. “I’m just a footprint in the snow,” Matty acknowledges. But Bridgers’ lines “I’m in love with the girl next door/her name is Claire /  Nice when she comes round to call / And masturbate the second she’s not there” remind us he’s not the only one with a story to tell.

Seven years since their debut, the 1975 are still reaching new heights – and ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’ is their most heartfelt, emotional turn yet.

The Greta Thunberg assisted  ‘The 1975’ implores rebellious action, Everyone out there, it is now time for civil disobedience, the teenage activist implores – while the hardcore-inspired ‘People’ sees the band at their most furious. ‘Me And You Together Song’ is a heartfelt throwback to simpler times, mirroring their formative years as Drive Like I Do, while the melancholy ‘The Birthday Party’ released in February – provides a twinkling, dreamlike escape from the everyday.

Dirty Hit, under exclusive licence to Polydor Records and Interscope Records Released on: 2020-04-03

The 1975 – ” Medicine ” Written for the “Drive” Re-score

Posted: November 2, 2014 in MUSIC
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After we stole him we made our way from Los Angeles through the Californian desert to Las Vegas. Drowning my sorrows and (narrowly) avoiding conflict from many directions… I sat down with Jim (Zane Lowe’s producer) and he began to explain to me how he was in the process of rescoring a movie and did we want to be involved. The film in question was the modern classic ‘Drive’. So of course my answer was ‘yes’. We wrote ‘Medicine’ for our chosen scenes.

‘Medicine’, its title and sentiment, goes all the way back to the original The 1975 project that was based in my bedroom. It’s a new piece of music informed by the genesis of our band and our love for ‘Drive’ as a film. Having the opportunity to rescore a movie of which we were already so familiar with provided us with a sense of knowing and allowed us to be slightly more introspective than we maybe would have been approaching something unknown. The movie itself plays with the duality of resignment and hope — and this is most obvious and stirring in the scenes we chose to score.

The song is a testament to that same idea and has in turn become one of our most personal and best loved pieces of music to date. I won’t delve into what the song is about lyrically because frankly I want to put those ideas to bed; but being provided with the context in which ‘Medicine’ came to be.

The 1975 – ” Robbers “

Posted: June 8, 2014 in MUSIC
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from the enjoyable debut  album of the same name the 1975 the 4 piece from Macclesfield have had some catchy songs released as singles to date

the 1975 – ” Girls / Like Chocolate

Posted: March 29, 2014 in MUSIC
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the 1975 just write great poppy songs, from Manchester the band now are taking america by storm