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At the same time, they're expanding their electronic palette too. Alongside the punky "People," they've also got shoegaze ("Then Because She Goes"), alt-countrified emo ("Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America," an emotional opening-up about bisexuality that finds Matty duetting with Phoebe Bridgers who sings backup on 3 other songs too), twang rock ("Roadkill"), and romantic '90s jangle pop ("Me & You Together Song"). The 1975 were always sort of a "rock band" who didn't necessarily sound very rock in the traditional sense, but Notes finds them successfully trying their hands at time-tested, guitar-oriented subgenres more than ever before.
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It’s just as good as its predecessor, and it finds the band continuing to push forward. In some ways it comes off like “part 2” of Brief Inquiry rather than another intentional leap, but that’s underselling it. That probably put more pressure on The 1975 to deliver a worthy followup than ever, but they also had announced Notes (with a different title) at the same time as Brief Inquiry and they had already started recording it before Brief Inquiry was released, so it seems like some of these songs were born out of the same creative hot streak that birthed its predecessor. I Like It When You Sleep was such an ambitious leap forward that it was kind of impossible to keep shrugging, and the tightened-up 2018 album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships was the moment that The 1975 officially became canonized - more than one reviewer compared it to OK Computer. Their self-titled 2013 debut made them famous but - at least in America - they seemed to get shrugged off by critics. It makes sense that they'd look at it this way. The 1975 have said that Notes won't be their last album, but that it feels like the end of an era to them and that it might be a while before they make another one. They've gotten as far as they have because, in 2020, there isn't a single other band doing all that they do, and Notes On A Conditional Form only further confirms this. The 1975 have swagger, attitude, and very catchy songs, so it's no surprise that they're as famous as they are, but they clearly care about crafting classic albums in the traditional sense, and preserving the work of the important musicians who came before them who (mostly) can't headline arenas on a regular basis like The 1975 can. That's an eclectic list for anyone, let alone one of the biggest rock bands in the world, and the influence of almost all of those artists can be heard on Notes On A Conditional Form. In the leadup to their fourth album Notes On A Conditional Form, the band's extremely charismatic frontman Matty Healy hosted a podcast where he interviewed some of his heroes, and the cast included legends in noise rock (Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon), ambient music (Brian Eno), minimalism (Steve Reich), and emo singer/songwriters (American Football's Mike Kinsella, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst), as well as an artist whose band is as chameleonic as the 1975 (Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie) and the needs-no-introduction Stevie Nicks. On a 1975 album, there's always something unpredictable around the corner, always some idea that they've never tried before and are desperate to try now. Whether or not you like what they do, even their haters would have to agree they're never boring. They're constantly pushing themselves to do more and more, always seeming like they're gonna go spiraling off the tracks at any second but always managing not to. Those are words that have gotten thrown at The 1975 every album cycle since their 2016 sophomore LP I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It, but The 1975 don't succeed in spite of those things they succeed because of them. If you're a 1975 fan, you're not just expecting their new album to sound a little bloated, a little self-indulgent, and a little cheesy - you want it to.
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