Album Rating: 5.0

@Green Baron as if even half of their audience knows who Phoebe Bridgers is



What Should I Say really is proving itself to be one of the best songs of the year for me

Album Rating: 3.5

"The Birthday Party" is glorious holy shit

Album Rating: 3.5

Loving this so far honestly. Only like a third of the way in so far tho but no misses for me yet

Album Rating: 2.5

When I first heard "The Birthday Party," I got pretty excited for this album, because in spite of the bewilderingly stupid lyricism, the vocal melodies and production were pretty cool. But...just...there's something a bit self-important about releasing a 22 song album. I'm sorry, but there's a lack of respect for the listener there, especially when most of the tracks sound like unfinished instrumental demos that Matty and co had nothing to do with. Kinda reminds me of Gorillaz newer stuff in that respect.



And with regards to this whopper of a 1975 album, there are some real lyrical clunkers in there. Some lines that are honestly a disgrace to good lyricism, truly. Matty sounds like a someone who's good at knowing what he's feeling, but terrible at explaining it with any sort of insight.

wow people sounds like a Used b-side my goodness

and yeah i know is probs gonna be the pulk/pull revolving doors for the xanax gen

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah second half of this fell a lot more flat for me

first third is completely throwaway aside from The Birthday Party, second third has some moments, final third is firm who cares territory

Album Rating: 1.0

Man fuck this album, sounds like a Spotify curated mood playlist for if the mood was “drinking my own urine”

Superficial as fuck while dishing out meaningless platitudes. Anyone born after 1990 will see depth no doubt.

Album Rating: 2.0

Alert the presses this isn't Zak's thing

Album Rating: 1.0

Searching for a plane in the sea, that’s irony

Album Rating: 2.0

The fans are loving it, can we get a wave?

Album Rating: 4.5

Going off of @oisincoleman64's 'disc 2' and adding a couple more songs



Streaming

Frail State of Mind

The Birthday Party

Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America

What Should I Say

Roadkill

Then Because She Goes

Me & You Together Song

If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)

Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)

Playing On My Mind

Don't Worry

Guys



That's probably the best track listing this album can muster imo

This album's best tracklisting would be a 20 minute EP

Album Rating: 1.0

I’m disappointed so far...

















thought this would be worse than it is.

that's almost the worst part - it's not offensively bad, it's just a total nothing album with a few innocuously terrible moments and a couple of gems

Album Rating: 1.0

That’s what I’m getting so far yeah, bloated bag of meandering nothingness. Having said that Shiny Collarbone is kind of hilarious. Was hoping for more after their last album delivered so spectacularly, especially in the lyrics department.

I found that most of the tracks are mixed in a way that avoids emphasising the lyrics too heavily - would be a smart mood, but (unlike on camera) Matty Healy has zero personality as a vocalist and this only neuters his performance further
also fking lol that the Independent (in an otherwise solid review) compared People to End Hits

Album Rating: 1.0

I vaguely liked People for the first 30 secs or so, the shock value was definitely in full effect, wasn’t expecting it at all. The vocals are definitely lacking in well, anything... which considering how sparse and ultimately empty this is musically, doesn’t help matters. Their take on experimentation seems to involve a diluted form of ‘ambience’ without the required atmosphere, or direction.



I swear this album has an interlude after every track, or maybe they just sound like interludes... I can’t tell them apart from the ‘actual songs’ anymore. Am I going crazy? Maybe.

Lol that's defs true for the first third or so, absolute mess of sequencing
And yeah, I feel this probably is 'experimental' insofar as it takes a shot at deconstructing pop (on a song-by-song and overall album basis), but I don't think I heard a single idea here that hadn't been done considerably better by alternative, indietronica or experimental pop musicians in the first half of the '00s (albeit without the present day gloss) :/ Their beats have zero flavour, and they quickly take their off-piste stuff into elevator territory. Maybe it's innovative by the standards of contemporary groups with a platform as big as theirs, fuck knows.
There's also the unfortunate fact that the band are by far at their best when they play it safest, which is why The Birthday Party, Me & You Together Song and the closer are the easy highlights here