Latest Release
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- 8 DEC 2023
- 2 Songs
- I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it · 2016
- Being Funny In a Foreign Language · 2022
- Somebody Else (Alt Edit) - Single · 2016
- I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it · 2016
- Don't Play (feat. The 1975 & Big Sean) - Single · 2014
- The 1975 · 2013
- The 1975 (Deluxe) · 2013
- The 1975 · 2013
- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships · 2018
- RIP Indo Hisashi - EP · 2018
Essential Albums
- “I’m making pop records,” The 1975 frontman Matty Healy told Beats 1 host Matt Wilkinson. “When I say we’re a pop band, what I’m really saying is we’re not a rock band. Please stop calling us a rock band—’cause I think that’s the only music we don’t make.” It’s a fair comment: Thanks to their eclecticism and adventure, attempting to label The 1975 has been as easy as serving tea in a sieve. On their third album, the Cheshire four-piece are, once again, many things, including jazz crooners, 2-step experimentalists and yearning balladeers. What’s most impressive is their ability to wrangle all these ideas into coherent music—their outsize ambition never makes the songs feel cluttered. “I hate prog, I hate double albums, I hate indulgence,” said Healy. “I hate it when the world goes, ‘Hey, you’ve got our attention!’ and someone goes, ‘Right, well, if I’ve got your attention, how many guitar solos…’” Crucially, Healy’s lyrics add extra substance to—and bind together—the kaleidoscope of styles. On the neo-jazz of “Sincerity Is Scary”, he rails against a modern aversion to emotional expression. Broadly an album about love in the digital age, A Brief Inquiry… offers compelling insights into Healy’s own life. “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)” provides an unvarnished account of his heroin addiction, while “Surrounded By Heads and Bodies” draws on his experiences in rehab and “Be My Mistake” examines guilt and compulsion. “Honestly, you can look at your work and be like, ‘What did I do there that someone likes?’” he said. “Me, when I’m, like, really personal or really inward, really honest, that’s when I get the best reaction.” Introspection needn’t breed a sombre mood though. From the tropical pop of “Tootimetootimetootime” to the spry electro-indie of “Give Yourself a Try”, this is an album full of uplifting, melodic rushes. “My favourite records are about life,” said Healy. “It may be a bit of a big thing to say, but I like the all-encompassing aspect of life: You can have these bits, the sad bits, but don’t leave the dancing out, you know what I mean?”
- The 1975’s second album makes a few things crystal clear: Matt Healy belongs to the flawed and decadent bloodline of Great British frontmen, his band has evolved from indie-pop upstarts into glorious, riotously ambitious oddities and they couldn’t care less about traditional titles or running times. Here lives generous dollops of iresistible, crunchy pop (“Love Me”, “Ugh”, “The Sound”), yearning electronic balladeering (“A Change of Heart”, “If I Believe You”, “Paris”) and ambient palate cleansers (the title track and “Lostmyhead”). Bound together with red-raw emotion and wicked humour, it’s astonishingly eclectic, a hell of a lot of fun and it should also see The 1975 graduate to stadiums on their own, delightfully weird, terms.
Albums
Artist Playlists
- Welcome to the weird and totally irresistible world of The 1975.
- Bubblegum pop, '80s exuberance and flashes of solid gold.
- “I think that people really seek comfort in art.”
- Listen to the hits performed on the blockbuster tour.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Live Albums
Appears On
- Zane explores Manchester with frontman Matty Healy.
- New music from The 1975, plus Ariana Grande FaceTimes Zane.
- New music from Gerry Cinnamon, plus Matty Healy FaceTimes Zane.
- Matty Healy selects music and FaceTimes Zane.
About The 1975
The 1975 had already released a platinum-selling album—their 2013 self-titled debut—before they learned to trust their own instincts. “It’s hard to have that confidence when you’re young,” frontman Matty Healy told Apple Music. “A lot of people’s early music has a lot to do with: ‘Is this cool enough to show my mates?’ That can kill bands if they never leave The Hawley Arms”—the Camden pub/epicentre of British indie music in the 2000s. So when they began to make their second album, 2016’s I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, the four-piece resolved to ignore outside expectation. As Healy recalls, it was time to “do exactly what we want”. It was a smart move. Formed at school in Wilmslow, south of Manchester, in 2002, the group spent the second half of the 2010s becoming one of Britain’s biggest bands by continuously reinventing its sound. They’d begun by cloaking ’80s pop drama in the gauzy atmospherics of shoegaze on 2012’s Facedown EP, but were assimilating folk, UK garage, emo, techno, classical and spoken-word features from Greta Thunberg by the time their 22-track fourth album Notes on a Conditional Form arrived in 2020. At the centre of their sonic mazes, Healy, the son of TV actors Denise Welch and Tim Healy, addresses personal dramas and hot-button cultural themes with honesty and wit. If opening up about addiction and recovery ever threaten to shroud him in rock ’n’ roll folklore, songs such as “The Birthday Party”—partly about being too embarrassed to defecate if someone’s in the next room—deflate the myth-making. Sprawling, restless and striding snake-hipped along the line between invention and self-indulgence, their records often resemble great playlists rather than traditional albums. “We create in the way that we consume—with that same kind of pan-excitement,” said Healy. “There’s no rules when it comes to streaming. It doesn’t say, ‘Don’t listen to Headie One after Carole King.’ It’s almost like we don’t have those rules as well. There’s a lot of abrupt scene changes—but that’s what life’s like.”
- ORIGIN
- Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
- FORMED
- 2002
- GENRE
- Alternative