1975, The - Notes on a Conditional Form CD

From the arresting Greta Thunberg speech released in July, to the shock and awe of opening their Reading 2019 set with a visceral premiere of lead single ‘People’, The 1975 were setting the stage for an album that was geared to be important. Then the pandemic happened and suddenly a new 1975 album feels like less of a big deal. Even the existential threat of climate change, tackled in Greta Thunberg’s opening speech, while still prescient has lost some of its potency in the shadow of the more immediate global risk of coronavirus. The news cycle accelerated past the band just as they prepared potentially the most defining album of their career. It’s just as well then that the rest of the album largely leaves that overt political edge with the last howl of ‘People’.--Dillon Eastoe

TRACKLIST:

1. THE 1975

2. PEOPLE

3. THE END (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 COLLAR BONE

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