Album Rating: 3.5
I can see that. I have only run into one other person where I live that has even heard of them. I found them on Sputnik.
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I live in Canada and they seem pretty popular, I see a lot of college girls tweeting about them and shit
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Album Rating: 3.5
Theres also the fact that I'm old. Part of the reason I like them is the songs I like have a massive 80s feel to them, which is my jam.
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Album Rating: 3.0
They're not hugely popular in the US either, although I'd say most alternative rock fans are at least aware of them. I discovered them myself in 2016 when I was perusing "artists you might like" on spotify or whatever that recommendation section is called. The album they released that year was incredible, each album since has been an increasing exercise in faux-art masturbation. The best song they ever wrote came from the album before this though, "It's Not Living" is a jam and a half.
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Album Rating: 3.5
That is a major jam. My personal favorite song of theirs is I Like America and America Likes Me. Best song Bon Iver forgot to write.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
An issue with this record is that the influences are less integrated with each other and entire songs can be traced back to who they're emulating, so it sounds like imitation more than influence. Which is weird because even the last album felt wholely theirs, whereas this tends to get a little faceless
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Album Rating: 3.0
^That one is great too @BigHans. I'm mostly a fan of their midtempo non-electronic stuff from I Like It When You Sleep... - like Change of Heart, Love Me, Ugh, Somebody Else, Paris, She's American, etc. That album was so rich with 80s glazed indie-pop/rock. Ever since then, it's been cherry picking the occasional song here or there. For me, at least.
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Album Rating: 5.0
So many comments here are far more annoyingly pretentious than anything on this album
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Pffft
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I like this album but what
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Album Rating: 5.0
"I think it’s more the ‘see-through’ regurgitated nonsense these clones peddle while inflicting their substance-less drek to the masses that is the real shit grip. Promoted by the media as if they are pioneers and spokespersons of a generation. The cunts mum was in coronation street for fuck sake."
Most pseud shit I've ever read, how little self-awareness do you have to have to complain about the way Matty Healy speaks and then say something like this
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Yeah it definitely seems like this band is trendy to hate, which leads to people saying dumb shit
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And who ever promoted The 1975 as "pioneers and spokespersons of a generation"?
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Nothing to do with ‘Matty’ it’s the pedestal the band have been placed on to present them as representative of the youth and the frontmans mum was an actress on one of the biggest if not the biggest shows of all time.
It’s all just nonsense.
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And who ever promoted The 1975 as "pioneers and spokespersons of a generation"?
The guardian
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/21/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form-review
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The review doesn't call them pioneers and spokespersons of a generation. It's actually very critical of the album and criticizes the singer for wanting to be the voice of a generation.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Who gives a shit about The Guardian
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Nobody, but the review he linked doesn't even say what he claimed it says.
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The NME
And yes it is critical of the album but it does frame the contents and themes as a conduit for suburban teen problems
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