The best moments on the album come from when they bravely try to advance some of their edgier aspects to the band. The brilliant thing is that all the quotes in the songs lyrics over the album are probably direct quotes, and someone has actually said all these ridiculous things. A positive and uplifting song about love in the chorus, is interspersed by comments during a relationship with someone who hates his shoes and his tunes, but still would move in. 'The Sound' attacks - and quotes in it's brilliant music video - it's critics from the first album. The song acts as a self-referential come down from a massive drug binge. Challenging his own issues once more on 'She's American', he references his own breakdown on stage in 2014 where people commented that he'd lost it. The guitar is catchy, almost copying what riffs they've done before. The lyrics are touching, and reference his view on heaven, but nonetheless wishes she could hear him.Įlsewhere on the album, tracks like 'She's American' and 'The Sound' advance the sound of the first LP from the band.
It's a lugubrious tale indeed, and the simplest song on the album musically and to understand, similar to the later track dedicated to his grandmother, 'Nana'. The girl in the narrative says to the recipient they "look like shit and smell a bit", and used to look like a face of a magazine, now just looks like anyone. Unlike with 'A Change of Heart', which slows the pace considerably, talking about how small breasts can be an issue in a relationship, and how taking photos of salads and putting them online is a bit shit. The subject matter isn't really hidden in this if you can get past his sometimes obtuse delivery in chunks of lyrical content, which does not happen on the first listen. 'UGH!' is next, with an infectious guitar line that invites you in and continues throughout the whole song, as Matt muses over, again, what he hates about the media and his own demons and struggles with drugs. It's a great introduction to the new, slightly more pop sound that the band have clearly worked hard on. He references the Kardashians in the lyrics ("caught up in fashion, Karcrashian panache and a bag of bash for passion" is a fantastic lyric to hear), and David Bowie's 'Fame' and 'Fashion' in the guitar and overall 80s feel to the song. He talks of declining standards of what we accept, which is meant in both musical terms and in the UK. It invites people to criticise him, as he criticises the media and society - something I really welcome. The first track after the intro, geniously titled 'The 1975', is 'Love Me'. Make of that what you wish, but let it be known that it being lowercase is a travesty. That has presented itself has the album, with a can't-believe-he-convinced-the-rest-of-the-band-that-this-was-a-good-idea title: 'i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it'.
The 1975 album cover i like it when you sleep full#
With a bucket full of panache, they've chucked their entire talent and wordy-lexicon onto a canvas. If they had it their way, you wouldn't listen to any other band, as their injection into the media spotlight has been lethal and predictable. Matt Healy is easily the most obnoxious, yet talented, person in music at the moment.
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