Somehow every single time they drop a lead single is the complete opposite of what I expected. Beautiful track
From the Apple Music description of the album: "When The 1975 came to make their fifth album, some questions hung over them. “With [2020’s] Notes on a Conditional Form, because of the time we came from and what we’ve been doing as a band, we’d maybe been taking what a band is as far as it can go,” singer/guitarist Matty Healy tells Apple Music. “When we got to this album, we were like, ‘Well, who are we? What are we? What makes us us?’ We’ve all been having this conversation about how, in art, people now are really craving remarkable things that require as little technology as possible. That became an incentive for making the record like a captured moment as opposed to this construct. There was very little editing or there was very little anything apart from playing the songs with one another. Funnily enough, that made everything sound newer and more modern again. The first evidence of that is new single “Part of the Band.” It’s a baroque pop piece where darting, urgent strings give way to gentle, folky psychedelia as Healy’s lyrics explore his sense of self via thoughts of past and present homes, addiction and recovery, ego and imagination. “I suppose a lot of my work—a lot of my videos, especially—is about the construction of one’s identity and the construction of the self,” he says. “There’s a realism to this song that exists across the whole album.”
it's almost like they took the strings from "the end (music for cars)" and turned them into a baroque pop song wonderful
every album since the debut has had a headfake type lead single but this one somehow feels the least "single"-y of all
I have more or less liked everything they have done, but this song is a surprise in the best way imaginable. It is like a blend of Bleachers and Bon Iver and the last 30 seconds or so reminds me of Paris which is the highest compliment I can give their music.
Yeah massive Bon Iver and Bleachers vibes. Looks like some people on r/the1975 might need a hug though lol.