A severe case of the Serious Artists can’t dispel the fact that the 1975’s moment album is packed full of fantastic pop songs and smart lyricsThe 1975’s moment album arrives freighted with expectations,and not just the normal expectations that accumulate heaped upon the follow-up to a platinum-selling debut: advance publicity suggests that listeners should prepare for something unique, confounding and experimental. Some of this has been emanating from what’s left of the music press: “hugely ambitious and surreal”, and “no easy listen”,“2016’s most unpredictable album”. And some of it has come from the 1975’s frontman, Matty Healy, or a man who happily seems to have made it his life’s mission to never knowingly contemplate before speaking when in the presence of a journalist: “I’m challenging people to sit through an hour and 15 minutes and 17 songs that all sound completely different from each other. Its fairly an emotional investment. It’s art … the world needs this album.” Related: The 1975: ‘No one's asking you to inspire a revolution. But inspire something’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com