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ComedownMachine · Oct 30, 2019

Jusscali said:

First of all - fuck you, play antichrist. Second of all - I'll consider voting if you play antichrist.

matty must hate you

irthesteve · Oct 30, 2019

Phoebe Bridgers talks collaborating with The 1975 and her "unafraid" new album

[removed] · Oct 30, 2019

If the live visual for Antichrist isn’t just tweets of people demanding they play antichrist i’ll be upset.

Jusscali · Oct 30, 2019

ComedownMachine said:

matty must hate you

Feelings mutual lol but I like his music

nohandstoholdonto · Oct 31, 2019

Sybil · Oct 31, 2019

This band though.

Is Feb here yet?

drummerAVA · Oct 31, 2019

nohandstoholdonto said:

I think it’s hilarious how it cracks him up every time lol.

bodkins · Oct 31, 2019

nohandstoholdonto said:

The fact that I don't need to hit play to know the line proves it's in fact the most iconic (at least to me).

nohandstoholdonto · Oct 31, 2019

If any of y’all are interested, I did an impromptu cover of fallingforyou and liked it enough to share

y2jayjk · Oct 31, 2019

Matty posting about Pinegrove yikes

Carrow · Oct 31, 2019

Feel like he probably doesn't know about the allegations but it's not a good look anyway

RyanRyan · Oct 31, 2019

I mean he posted The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me the other day haha. Ain’t intentional, clearly... Not everybody is privy to the info that folks religiously following these bands are. Matty regularly comments about the rights of women and other major political debates openly on Twitter and live from shows. Let’s not pretend there’s anything to talk about here. Someone will tell him and I’m sure he’ll just remove it and apologise.

Carrow · Oct 31, 2019

RyanRyan said:

I mean he posted The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me the other day haha. Ain’t intentional, clearly... Not everybody is privy to the info that folks religiously following these bands are. Matty regularly comments about the rights of women and other major political debates openly on Twitter and live from shows. Let’s not pretend there’s anything to talk about here. Someone will tell him and I’m sure he’ll just remove it and apologise.

yeah that's probably how this will play out. it's a slip-up but nothing as egregious as, say, wanting to open for them on tour like Buck Meek is.

nohandstoholdonto · Oct 31, 2019

It’s Not Living If It’s Not With You is the best 80s song of all time

TriangularDuck · Nov 1, 2019

Now finally back on home turf for a solid month to put the pieces together, follow-up ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ is in the latter stages of completion. Today, we’re here to get a preview. “Every record so far has been a distillation of the one that preceded it, in the sense that the poppier bits get poppier, the good bits get good-er, the good songwriting becomes more classic or the experimentation becomes more astute,” Matty explains. “This one is different. It has lots of different songwriting on it to what I’ve done before; we keep looking to each other and being like, ‘Can we really make a record like this that isn’t a follow up to anything?’

“Imagine The 1975 jamming,” he continues, “you can’t really, right? But imagine our idea of jamming which is having loads of books and visual references, and a computer and a conversation, and mixing this and saying ‘That’s fucking dope’ - that’s kind of what ‘Notes…’ is.” If the singer was quoted as sort-of-jokingly describing ‘A Brief Enquiry…’ as The 1975’s ‘OK Computer’, then its successor, he suggests, is “maybe our ‘Amnesiac’” - an even stranger, more eclectic beast.

You’ll know the record’s opening gambit by now, the sonically bipolar but similarly state-of-the-nation one-two punch of ‘The 1975’ and balls-out DFA-esque slammer ‘People’. Recently-released single ‘Frail State of Mind’, meanwhile, showcased a completely different side, taking glitchy cues from house music and “going inwards instead of outwards”. “It’s about the constant apologising to yourself or feeling the need to apologise to others because you’re not on the same vibe. The constant fear that people don’t like you as much because you don’t wanna get fucked up or whatever, combined with the wish that you did want to do that,” he explains. But they’re just the starting blocks of the record’s planned 22 tracks.

There’s ‘The Birthday Party’, a tender confessional written ahead of their 2019 tour marathon that finds the singer addressing his recent substance struggles. “The first line is “Hello, there’s a place I’ve been going / Now I’m clean it would seem / Let’s go somewhere I’ll be seen / As sad as it seems”.

"There are loads of references to the honest fact that if I wasn’t in a band and I didn’t have people stopping me in order for me to - how do Americans say it - get the strength to then do it myself, then yeah, I’d be fucked,” admits Matty. ‘Then Because She Goes’, meanwhile, pairs fuzzy Pavement-recalling guitars with hyper-produced, polished vocals, while ‘Something You Should Know’ continues down the house-influenced path of ‘Frail…’. Elsewhere, things get brilliantly weird. There’s one song that’s centred around a Shabba Ranks sample (he of ‘Mr. Loverman’ fame), another that riffs on The Temptations’ ‘Just My Imagination’, and the sure-to-piss-off-the-squares ‘It’s More That I’m Bored Than I Actually Want To Kill Myself (Or Something)’.

“It’s that idea of being hyper-bored. Like, oh I’ll just kill myself or fucking wank or eat something or text someone I shouldn’t,” Matty explains. “And it’s using that term in the way that we use it now, so if it’s a bit like ‘Why’s he saying that?’, well we say that shit all the time. Oh, I’ll fucking kill myself if she does that: putting it in the same bracket as eating something or texting someone. Kill myself, touch myself, eat something, miss someone, whatever. That’s the only shit we’ve got.”

Most likely to incite inevitable scribbled swooning diary entries, meanwhile, is a purposefully wide-eyed sugary headrush of a track, originally written for the soundtrack of a film Matty’s been writing called German. “It’s kind of me as a teenager; it’s about idealism in relationships and trying to capture what I thought about Amy Watson or Chelsea Pollard,” he muses. “And there are funny lines in it. When I write about relationships, I find it quite hard to be soppy so my sincerity comes from gags. ‘I had a dream where we had kids / You would cook, I’d do the nappies / We went to Winter Wonderland/ It was shit but we were happy’. Which is my way of saying I actually love you quite a lot.”

Puffing on a string of cigarettes, eagerly pressing play on clips of unfinished tracks to emphasise his points and theorising about the similarities between his love of country music and pop punk (“Pop punk music: ‘I’m gonna live and die in this town’, sad face. Country music: ‘I’m gonna live and die in this town’, happy face. It’s the same vibe; emo and country are just with a smile or not”), Matty is clearly in his element when he’s right in the scrum of it, putting together the pieces of The 1975’s latest puzzle and knitting his considerable pool of influences into an inimitable whole. He’s in an enviable position where now, the deeper he gets into the band’s particular mix of high and low, populist and esoteric, the deeper his fans fall. “Whenever I write something where I think I’m being impenetrable, that’s the thing that people get a tattoo of, or that’s the thing that makes us the biggest. The more specific I get, the more inward I get, the more people go, ‘Yeah, that’s what I’m like’,” explains the singer. “I think people just want truth, so I won’t pretend, and I won’t try to do anything that isn’t real. Comfort the afflicted and, if given the chance, afflict the comfortable: that’s my job.”

Justin Roux · Nov 1, 2019

‘It’s More That I’m Bored Than I Actually Want To Kill Myself (Or Something)’ is my 2020 SOTY

sawhney[rusted]2 · Nov 1, 2019

this album is gonna make me cry isnt it

thenewmatthewperry · Nov 1, 2019

With all the Talk! of country music in that article i sure hope we’re getting a country track.

Jusscali · Nov 1, 2019

Next track bruh

Matt Chylak · Nov 1, 2019

Damn, I've gotta update OP. So many new song titles!

Matt Chylak · Nov 1, 2019

thenewmatthewperry said:

With all the Talk! of country music in that article i sure hope we’re getting a country track.

CACKLING at:

“Pop punk music: ‘I’m gonna live and die in this town’, sad face. Country music: ‘I’m gonna live and die in this town’, happy face. It’s the same vibe; emo and country are just with a smile or not”

unbornwhiskey · Nov 1, 2019

he's right

Mr. Serotonin · Nov 1, 2019

Yeah I think that's a meme, haha.

AVanMill17 · Nov 1, 2019

y2jayjk said:

Matty posting about Pinegrove yikes

What did he say? I didn't see anything on twitter?

thenewmatthewperry · Nov 1, 2019

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