But, as the tour for ‘i like it when you sleep…’ thundered towards its conclusion, and Matty’s place as an icon was quickly being cemented, they already pointed towards their next steps. Sure, the bubblegum hits remained - ‘The Sound’ is pure, euphoric chart fodder - but unlike ‘Chocolate’, ‘Sex’ and ‘Girls’ from their debut, it was flanked by deep dives into the human psyche and the darkest corners of our minds.įor a band so young - if immensely popular - it seemed like an album so broad in scale and scope that it was impossible to follow. Musically, the record was a manic, scattered, genre-spanning canvas but remained tied together by the frontman’s frenzied takes on relationships, drugs, and navigating life as a young person in such a paranoid era. It was with The 1975’s second album, 2016’s ‘i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it’, that Matty Healy and co pushed their band from a massively popular yet largely base-level operation into genuinely important statement-purveyors.
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