The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 297

I kind of agree with this. To me it’s like half an half. Half the songs are some of their best, half I don’t really like.

ILWYS is my favourite by a distance.

 

ILIWYS and this are neck and neck but I need time to really see how much of that is just recent bias bc I feel like I briefly thought ABIIOR was closer in quality to ILIWYS than I now think it is but we’ll see.

atm I’m feeling something like:

(NOACF)/ILIWYS
[the EP exclusive tracks compiled into a carefully sequenced playlist]
ABIIOR
S/T

 

Review: 'Notes On A Conditional Form' Is The 1975's Biggest, Brashest, Most Polarizing Album Yet

That’s just it, though. The endless rollouts, the bloated tracklists, the headline-baiting lyrics, the willful convergence of cool and uncool, the loose-cannon tweets, the inflammatory pullquotes, the pouty-faced photo shoots, the outfits, the haircuts, the pomposity, the bravado, the Kanye-like belief in their own genius — it’s all part of the too-much-ness that’s intrinsic to this band. It’s a feature, not a bug. You either roll with it, or you roll your eyes at it. The 1975 have released no perfect albums, yet Notes On A Conditional Form is a perfect 1975 album — an acute summary of their obtuse grandeur, a deeply polarizing collection with a little something for everyone. Still, it’s hard to imagine them expanding outward like this forever. Perhaps realizing this, Healy has called this album the end of an era and has hinted at abandoning the album format entirely going forward.

I like that line.

 

When did he ever hint at abandoning the album format? I feel like I remember him just recently saying he likes expressing himself in long form?

 

I feel like every band at some point has said they’ll abandon the album format but they never do

 

Playing on my Mind is the best acoustic song they've written TBH

 

https://uproxx.com/indie/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form-review/amp/

 

So funny seeing the fans in the replies “it might slap but we wouldn’t know we didn’t listen to it because we respect you king”

mate he literally doesn’t care

 

I cracked up at this

 

listen four is really doing it

 

The stereogum review was nice.

 

steve hyden review just careening through intersections of total wrongness it's amazing

 

ILIWYS
Notes
ABIIOR
S/T

 

He just doesn’t get it lol

 

FSOM was already great but even better with that lead in

 

she said i guess i’ll take this pain
instead of your name

 

this might be me too unless S/T deluxe counts then that is third

 

ILWYS
S/T
NOTES
ABIIOR

 

Interesting: This Is How Many Streams You Need On Spotify To Live Above The Poverty Line

 

which one is this?

 

I’m teetering between two distinct worlds of thought. I can totally understand what he thinks and why he thinks yet I just disagree...but do I? Lol the music is still sufficient enough for me to stay on this side of the fence.

 

tonight

 

yooooooo EP PEEPS

The End (Music For Cars) is a remake of HNNSC from the Music for Cars EP