The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (November 30, 2018) Album • Page 384

How ‘bout that album outro

 

that song is textbook radiohead but its hail to the thief/in rainbows

 

that makes sense because I thought ILIWYS made the s/t better

 

and then i always wanna die sometimes is the bends

 

This record is something special. “I Like America” takes me to a whole new place. What an absolute gem.

 

The songs don't sound lifted off any one Radiohead album but the manic, electronic aspects of the album feel inspired by Kid A to me...or just makes me want to listen to albums in that vein..Much like how I Always Want To Die Sometimes makes me want to pop on Oasis.

 

Exactly

 

p good stuff

 

RadioHead.Cars.TheBendsing

 

alright time to make the notes on a conditional form thread

 

petrichor gives me major idioteque/kid a vibes

 

this is literally the petrichor beat

 

Adore the new album but I can’t get behind that Ariana cover. My favourite cover of theirs in the Live Lounge was So Good.

 

this is all i want to listen to right now and the foreseeable future

 

I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) is Matty’s lyrical peak so far. You can’t change my mind.

 

The lyrics to the end of It's Not Living are SO much clearer in this live version!

Charlie got a job at a bank, I think
Annie's spending time traveling back in her dreams
I feel sick but I know that I'll lose
It's not living if it's not with you

EDIT: or is it Johnny got a job

 

Step into your skin, I’d rather jump in your bones (JUMP!)

 

Oh fuck, I Like America is that hot heat

 

Yeah this is my favorite song of the year, its that immediate

 

What a surprise, this is amazing

 

Premature Evaluation: The 1975 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships'

Without the same amount of endorphin-inducing highs as its predecessor, A Brief Inquiry perhaps marks a moment where the 1975 take on a bit too much, even for them. But that, conversely, makes it work in its own way. The fact that the album never sits still and yet sounds so weathered makes it all the more effective a document of life in 2018 — sometimes messy, sometimes genius, sometimes questionable, it’s the soundtrack for all of our muddled attempts to figure our shit out. In both their glib observations or their resonant couplets, the 1975 here come across like poet laureates for a lost and scrambled generation.

Whether people like it or not, there’s a real chance the 1975 are on track to be one of the defining names of the decade, a real chance they have a true generation-defining classic in them. There is a noble cause in their work so far, a young band not looking back as they careen headlong into all kinds of treacherous territory. That’s what makes the 1975 what they are, what makes them worth paying attention to as they mutate and try and find their way to the next sound. Because somewhere within this band, there is something that is indeed very in tune with our times.

Premature evaluation from Stereogum. They like it.

 

Holy fucking Petrichor

 

The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (1 June 2019) • forum.chorus.fm

 

The 1975 might be absurd, but growing up as a millennial has also often been absurd. This is a generation that was raised in the seeming halcyon days of the ’90s. The Cold War was over, 9/11 hadn’t happened. History seemed to be progressing teleologically into a bright technologically-advanced future. This same generation inherited the War On Terror, a global recession, collapsing industries, the rapidly approaching threat of catastrophic climate change, and society on the brink of eroding as people retreat into fictions and xenophobia. Through it all, we are 10 or 15 or 20 years into our new digitally-dominated lives and we still have no real bearing on its psychological impact, the ability to numb yourself by scrolling through an endless Twitter feed featuring all the world’s ills and impending disasters, over and over and over.

That’s what “Love It If We Made It,” and much of the rest of A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, is really depicting. The static, the paralysis, the disenchantment, the fury, the dislocation, produced by a world that seems to be falling apart and the way the internet brings that right up to our faces constantly. The way we struggle to still relate to and communicate with one another through the suffocating rush of distraction and information alike.

This is a hell of a reading as well.