I personally find A Brief Inquiry to be a nighttime record. Then again I've been listening to it at all times - it just really hits me at night. That goes for all of their albums though.
I haven’t decided if ABIIOR feels more like a night or day album to me, but it’s definitely a perfect winter album.
I still haven't wrapped my mind around the title tbh. The conditional tense in first person is "If I had" statements. So Notes on a Conditional Form is about hypotheticals and wishing you'd done things. It's a really pseudointelllectual, writerly way to talk about "if this than that" statements.
*me after hearing ABIIOR have guitar on basically every single song*: I would very much like a guitar driven album
Seems like a majority of Notes is already written/recorded. Edit: No finalized recordings but 18 demos!
Now I truly do NOT know what "The 1975" will sound like on Notes. I called the Brief Inquiry version somewhere in this thread though!