I kind of agree with this. To me it’s like half an half. Half the songs are some of their best, half I don’t really like. ILWYS is my favourite by a distance.
ILIWYS and this are neck and neck but I need time to really see how much of that is just recent bias bc I feel like I briefly thought ABIIOR was closer in quality to ILIWYS than I now think it is but we’ll see. atm I’m feeling something like: (NOACF)/ILIWYS [the EP exclusive tracks compiled into a carefully sequenced playlist] ABIIOR S/T
Review: 'Notes On A Conditional Form' Is The 1975's Biggest, Brashest, Most Polarizing Album Yet That’s just it, though. The endless rollouts, the bloated tracklists, the headline-baiting lyrics, the willful convergence of cool and uncool, the loose-cannon tweets, the inflammatory pullquotes, the pouty-faced photo shoots, the outfits, the haircuts, the pomposity, the bravado, the Kanye-like belief in their own genius — it’s all part of the too-much-ness that’s intrinsic to this band. It’s a feature, not a bug. You either roll with it, or you roll your eyes at it. The 1975 have released no perfect albums, yet Notes On A Conditional Form is a perfect 1975 album — an acute summary of their obtuse grandeur, a deeply polarizing collection with a little something for everyone. Still, it’s hard to imagine them expanding outward like this forever. Perhaps realizing this, Healy has called this album the end of an era and has hinted at abandoning the album format entirely going forward. I like that line.
When did he ever hint at abandoning the album format? I feel like I remember him just recently saying he likes expressing himself in long form?
So funny seeing the fans in the replies “it might slap but we wouldn’t know we didn’t listen to it because we respect you king” mate he literally doesn’t care
I’m teetering between two distinct worlds of thought. I can totally understand what he thinks and why he thinks yet I just disagree...but do I? Lol the music is still sufficient enough for me to stay on this side of the fence.