The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct 14, 2022) Album • Page 22

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Pre-orders are live but unfortunately the bundles aren't available to the US :(

 

Yup. They got my attention. More of that please.

 

Somehow every single time they drop a lead single is the complete opposite of what I expected. Beautiful track

 

From the Apple Music description of the album:

"When The 1975 came to make their fifth album, some questions hung over them. “With [2020’s] Notes on a Conditional Form, because of the time we came from and what we’ve been doing as a band, we’d maybe been taking what a band is as far as it can go,” singer/guitarist Matty Healy tells Apple Music. “When we got to this album, we were like, ‘Well, who are we? What are we? What makes us us?’ We’ve all been having this conversation about how, in art, people now are really craving remarkable things that require as little technology as possible. That became an incentive for making the record like a captured moment as opposed to this construct. There was very little editing or there was very little anything apart from playing the songs with one another. Funnily enough, that made everything sound newer and more modern again.

The first evidence of that is new single “Part of the Band.” It’s a baroque pop piece where darting, urgent strings give way to gentle, folky psychedelia as Healy’s lyrics explore his sense of self via thoughts of past and present homes, addiction and recovery, ego and imagination. “I suppose a lot of my work—a lot of my videos, especially—is about the construction of one’s identity and the construction of the self,” he says. “There’s a realism to this song that exists across the whole album.”

 

Oooh interesting! I like it. Reminds me a ton of Bleachers.

 

Cool song

 

it's almost like they took the strings from "the end (music for cars)" and turned them into a baroque pop song

wonderful

 

every album since the debut has had a headfake type lead single but this one somehow feels the least "single"-y of all

 

not what I was expecting as usual, but a great track nonetheless

 

I’ll be bummed if they don’t explore this more on the record.

 

I was thinking the same thing. Bleachers meets Bon Iver

 

Nah man

 

high def artwork

 

the acoustic guitars sound beautiful on this thing

 

To me this sounds like The 1975 channeling Gang Of Youths “Go Farther In Lightness” meets Bon Iver

 

Antonoff helped produce it

 

I like it a lot

 

I have more or less liked everything they have done, but this song is a surprise in the best way imaginable. It is like a blend of Bleachers and Bon Iver and the last 30 seconds or so reminds me of Paris which is the highest compliment I can give their music.

 

Yeah massive Bon Iver and Bleachers vibes.

Looks like some people on r/the1975 might need a hug though lol.

 

Hoping the new “The 1975” track is the Greta one but with vocoder now

 

Straight Bon iver

 

Track times:

 

it's good!