‘Somebody Else’ - at times spellbinding, at others baffling - proves to be the perfect home straight into The 1975’s bonkers second strike. ‘I Like It When You Sleep…’ is a confused, confounding record. Like a panicked joke from someone who’s unwillingly let down their emotional guard, it’s a disappointing yank back down to earth. Tongue in cheek, perhaps, but it’s an irony-meter busting moment that crumbles ’Somebody Else’’s more admirable, even (whisper it) heartfelt sentiments. “Get someone you love, get someone you need - fuck that, get money,” he squawks at the track’s mid-point, in the most ’sorry, what?’ moment since Kanye’s last tweet-storm. Snatching at influence from all over, ‘Somebody Else’’s kaleidoscopic mishmash of R’n’B du jour only serves to drown out The 1975’s signature in the process. Despite his insistence that ‘Somebody Else’ is “a straight up 1975 song”, it instead feels like he’s desperate to live up to the track’s title. COUP DE MAIN: I heard you went to bed late the other night. When that dreamscape’s pulled away, though, Healy seems desperate to squeeze his way into someone else’s leather trousers. Sincerity might be scary, but with a new taste for repartee flexing in candid lyricism, The 1975, once again, have demonstrated why almost twelve million monthly listeners on Spotify include the band as an important feature in the soundtracks of their lives. “I don’t want your body, but I hate to see your body with somebody else,” he laments, a dizzying depiction of that gut-punch moment lost love brings. “I took all my things that make sound,” he half-whispers, “the rest I could do without.” Hauntingly honest, it’s a chink-in-the-armour depiction of heartbreak like we’ve never seen from the band before. Lyrically, Matty Healy finally lays himself bare in the emotional sense, rather than just whipping off his top and skipping about, bottle of plonk in hand and fingers in his ears.Īt its best, it’s captivating. Peter Ryan: Because it’s The 1975, Somebody Else came out right after Valentine’s Day I had just been ghosted by the same boy for the second time in 12 months, having disregarded all of the most important truisms fool me twice, blah blah blah, no feelings between December and March, etc.
Gentle and soft-of-touch, it’s a slow jam in every sense of the word. The 1975 earned themselves a spot on our list of the 50 best albums of the year so far with the stylistic experimentation of I like it when you sleep, for.
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Battering its audience over the head with a handbag full of glitter, ‘Love Me’, ‘UGH!’ and ‘The Sound’ have revelled in confusion by cabaret. The 1975 stopped in before the sold-out X96 Teleperformance Half Ass Show for an intimate performance with some fantastic X96 listeners (October 20, 2016).To. Brash and blinding, The 1975’s return has attempted to dazzle at every turn.