May 22, 20205 yr This is a pretty good album. I’m glad to see the album tracks are leaning away from their indie rock sound, which was getting tired and predictable. I love the techno and garage influences.
May 22, 20205 yr Author This was a joy to listen to, I can see some being put off by the length - but I really enjoyed the whole thing. George did wonders on the instrumental tracks! He played some more on a livestream recently, I'd love to see a solo album of those. My favourite album tracks are Roadkill, Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy) and Then Because She Goes. 5YfAHy7izA0 This video is the start of an interesting project. "The 1975 and Ben Ditto have curated an online exhibition of 15 artists responding to tracks from NOACF" - the first one here of "Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy" is from Most Dismal Swamp, and the explanation for their choices are in the YouTube description!
May 22, 20205 yr As always with The 1975 albums I find them so long it's quite difficult to get through in one listen! Really enjoying the whole variety of genres on this album, they really are a genreless band who can release anything. My favourite new songs I think are Shiny Collarbone, The End (Music for Cars), What Should I Say and Having No Head. Definitely need to cherry-pick a few of the songs at a time. Some of the tracks that have been released as promos are sounding a lot better in the album - namely Jesus, the Birthday Party and Me and You.
May 22, 20205 yr Author Oh yeah the transition of Streaming into The Birthday Party was brilliant! An interesting fact about Shiny Collarbone is that they tried to license a sample of Cutty Ranks for it, but Cutty decided to just rerecord it just for them!
May 22, 20205 yr Oh yeah the transition of Streaming into The Birthday Party was brilliant! An interesting fact about Shiny Collarbone is that they tried to license a sample of Cutty Ranks for it, but Cutty decided to just rerecord it just for them! Maybe he had nothing better to do recently? :P i've not heard the sample before - is it a famous one?
May 22, 20205 yr Author I believe it's this one: WhZLZrDIrNs Christopher Cross' Sailing is also sampled on 'Bagsy Not in Net' - not that I'm familiar with the original haha.
May 22, 20205 yr ✪✪ | 1. The 1975 ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 2. People ✪✪✪ | 3. Music For Cars ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 4. Frail State of Mind ✪✪✪✪ | 5. Streaming ✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 6. The Birthday Party ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 7. Yeah I Know ✪✪✪✪ | 8. Then Because She Goes ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 9. Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America ✪✪ | 10. Roadkill ✪✪✪✪✪ | 11. Me & You Together Song ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 12. I Think There's Something You Should Know ✪✪✪ | 13. Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied ✪ | 14. Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy) ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 15. Shiny Collarbone ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 16. If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) ✪✪✪ | 17. Playing On My Mind ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 18. Having No Head ✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 19. What Should I Say ✪✪✪✪✪✪ | 20. Bagsy Not In Net ✪✪✪ | 21. Don't Worry ✪✪✪ | 22. Guys Here are my shoddily compiled ratings for the album. Gives it a score of 5.27/10, which probably doesn't do it justice. A mixed bag, but the high points are wonderful.
May 23, 20205 yr The actual album is amazing but ruined by all the self indulgent random interludes and instrumentals etc., - thank god for playlists so I can cut out all the junk.
May 26, 20205 yr Very impressed with the quality of this album! None of the tracks so far had clicked with me but listening to them all together really works. Those dance tracks are amazing
May 26, 20205 yr I found it all quite boring on first listen! I quite agree but I feel like we're in the minority here. I'll give it another listen at some point but I'm not expecting to like it much more on a second listen than my first.
May 26, 20205 yr This whole era has just been extremely tedious for the most part, if the songs they thought were good enough to be singles are so uninteresting for the most part ('Frail State Of Mind' aside, and I suppose 'People' too but that doesn't stand out in a good way) then I really dread to imagine how mind numbing it'd be to sit through the whole 22 songs. It's a real shame, I haven't always loved their music but for better or for worse it was never this boring before.
May 26, 20205 yr Author Very impressed with the quality of this album! None of the tracks so far had clicked with me but listening to them all together really works. Those dance tracks are amazing As the go to dance guy here I'd love to hear some recommendations for songs like Shiny Collarbone :lol: such a banger!
May 26, 20205 yr I quite agree but I feel like we're in the minority here. I'll give it another listen at some point but I'm not expecting to like it much more on a second listen than my first. I'm in this boat too. Had a listen this afternoon... I mean it was alright, but the standout tracks here would never have been singles on the previous 2 albums for a start. I found myself enjoying the instrumentals more than a lot of the tracks with vocals. All in all, it was long, and dull, really. Will give it a listen again tomorrow and see if my opinion changes.
May 26, 20205 yr As the go to dance guy here I'd love to hear some recommendations for songs like Shiny Collarbone :lol: such a banger! I haven’t heard anything like it before, probably my favourite of the lot
May 26, 20205 yr I quite agree but I feel like we're in the minority here. I'll give it another listen at some point but I'm not expecting to like it much more on a second listen than my first. Yeh il listen again as I usually take time to get into an album. But at 22 songs it's a long listen at any time!
May 26, 20205 yr I know Matty was inspired to make the dance songs by listening to Burial, so maybe he’d be up some people’s street? Edited May 26, 20205 yr by mdh
May 27, 20205 yr The CD has just been reduced to £4.99 on Amazon due to the chart battle with KSI - guess they want to make sure he’s not going to get a last minute surge in sales on his CD from his official store :lol:
May 28, 20205 yr Enjoyed the album more on 2nd listen, there are just so so many tracks to take in, on top of some singles that on the most part I couldn't get into (though "If You're Too Shy" is clicking with me a lot more than the others have). Hope they do beat KSI to number 1, but more to the point, I'm curious to see how they'll perform in week 2 after the previous album had that humongous drop from the top 1 back in 2018!! Though that was in the run up to Christmas, if that even means anything anymore...
May 28, 20205 yr Author I imagine it will have a similar drop, but there are more vinyl versions releasing in a few weeks - so should climb again.
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