The genuinely accomplished If I Believe You finds Healy’s loneliness climaxing in an understated sax solo. People listen across genres, argues Healy, so his band ought to deliver that breadth.Ĭonsequently, I Like It When You Sleep tries to do it all – not just brash 80s funk and pop-house chant-alongs (The Sound, a withering look at a relationship), but shoegazey dream-pop (Lostmyhead), mawkish piano ballads (Nana, about Healy’s departed grandmother and the nonexistence of God) and gospel-tinged slow jams. With his mop of Michael Hutchence hair, his semi-ironic leather trousers and slight air of Johnny Borrell, singer Matt Healy makes no apologies for the band’s prettiness, their pop ambitions, their self-aware derivations, or the sheer variety of the 1975’s latest output. Somewhat inevitably, the 1975 are better at some genres than others There’s even a staccato white funk ditty about cocaine called UGH!. This time around, though, all the quips that the Wilmslow foursome should really have been called the 1985 are even more justified, such is the maximalist mood of white jackets with rolled-up sleeves.

The 1975’s keen interest in boy bands and the 80s had already been touched on by their million-selling, self-titled debut album of 2013.

Love Me, one of the 1975’s recent singles, meanwhile, leans even harder on another boy band, one with instruments – Duran Duran, circa Notorious. The 1975 have leaned hard on the same sentiment for their long-awaited second album – a double, nearly – only their title takes a little longer to get to the point.

The girl was unaware she was beautiful – that’s what made her beautiful.

Y ou might just remember the gist of a 2011 single called What Makes You Beautiful, by One Direction.

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