Here’s our breakdown of A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, track by track. The sonic journey is heightened by the slick production from Matty and drummer George Daniel and evidenced from gritty, borderline jarring, Aphex Twin-esque electronics with warped vocals (‘How To Draw/Petrichor’) through to sultry jazz inflected grippers (‘Sincerity Is Scary’ and ‘Mine’) before ending on a cinematic crescendo (‘I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)’). There are significantly less stand alone instrumentals on A Brief Inquiry… letting the prolific lyrics often take centre stage, with tales of singer Matty Healy’s darkest moments documented alongside references to some of the current world’s darkest moments too.
This past week, as the release of their third album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships inches ever closer, publications seem to be dishing out 5 star reviews like they’re going out of fashion.
By the end of their self-titled debut album campaign though they had managed to expand both their fanbase and amount of critical acclaim to exponential levels, just in time for the release of sophomore record I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it. Touring under many different guises for a number of years, when they finally started to gather a healthy amount of recognition from a growing cult fanbase, the music press started to take notice, only to turn their nose up at the Manchester four-piece. Few bands have had the same tumultuous ascent to superstardom as The 1975.
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