The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (May 22, 2020) Album • Page 309

It's like the idea of a 1975 album has been getting more abstract and on this album they hit the breaking point where every song is just cartoonishly distinct from the track before and plays like a weird playlist you made in highschool but way trippier

 

Too Shy doesn’t even feel like retread to me, honestly. I get that is their style, but it feels like it is done really differently here.

 

Bagsby and Before She Goes are the weirdest songs imo and def need to listen more

 

this is it!!!!!

 

I don’t think anything on here is a retread exactly, but I think a lot of stuff on here is less interesting than past stuff they’ve done in those styles.

 

I only listened to this album once and the way it made me feel simultaneously extremely nostalgic and like I've never heard anything like this before is very impressive and their is no way it's not intentional

Very excited to look at the lyrics later

 

but also, on top of that, in a weird way, they're not cartoonishly distinct, it's like: dance music, alt-rock, emo, r&b, even country—these genres aren't walled off from each other, they've been talking to each other for 2-3 decades. this album understands that in a way i've never heard an album understand that before. it's like an album from 1998 but in 2020

 

For sure! Just hearing it all juxtaposed on one album feels very new. I don't think this would be the album for you if you were just into one of the elements but I think the modern sort of listener is always enjoying multiple scenes and sounds, eras even! This is clearly made by people who love music sincerely because it never once feels like a parody

 

Guys is the ultimate end credits song and also makes me sad that I don't have any pals to make music with

 

This is a good point. People keep calling this a playlist or whatever, but I think the album does a good job of blending all of those differing sounds together in a way that flows well.

 

It doesn't surprise me that there are playlist comparisons when Matty said they just recorded a bunch of songs and put them in a playlist and rearranged them until it sounded right lol

 

last night when I listened to it I was envisioning being wasted and making out outside of a club and that was what was playing inside or something

 

*waits patiently for more retreads* lol

 

So what is the actual length of this album? Everybody keeps saying 80 minutes but when I go to the album in my Apple Music app it says 1 hour and 10 minutes.

 

When I show the full album on my music app it says 1 hour 21 minutes

 

81min

 

My Apple Music is tweaking.

 

what else is new

 

I'm on my third full listen. I don't think this will hold up for me like ABI or even Sleep, but there is a lot of interesting stuff on this record. The notion of this being a rehash of ABI is absolutely lunacy though. Sure, the albums are comparable, but this is drastically different. I appreciate the band pushing the envelope here. I wish we had more of Then Because She Goes...I heard that little record clip a few weeks back, and really loved that 90's sound (along with M&YTS).

The rap and vocals on Yeah I Know are cringe-worthy, but then again, I can't get through "Be My Mistake" and ABI is one of my favorite records of the past decade.

I am going to try my best to not listen to any of the singles before their next release. In the context of the album, The Birthday Party might be one of my favorite tracks on here.

 

I think The Birthday Party was my favourite as well.

 

Anyone else agree that People and Frail would flow just fine into each other?

 

Birthday Party really clicked yesterday while I was walking my dog

 

I don't think I agree that this flows well, it really does feel like a playlist where maybe they put one or two tracks back to back here and there that flow OK, but tbh, as a whole it's so long that I couldn't really say confidently if it does one way or another, and it seems to me that they didn't really care whether it flows well or not anyway. Could probably put it on shuffle and it would have the same effect.

 

it mostly flows well after intro + People imo but I love both of those too much to skip so like

 

The birthday party was my least favorite single, but I’m enjoying it more in context. For as long of a record this is, I agree it flows pretty well. I think the way they weave in and out of different stuff helps keep me interested.