A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, the third album by the 1975, was released last Friday (Nov 30th). Despite having a very on/off relationship with this band I was so excited for this to be released. I ended up surprised (in a good way! mostly) when I listened to the full thing.
The singles — Give Yourself a Try, TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME, Love It If We Made It, Sincerity is Scary and It’s Not Living if it’s Not With You — were all great songs and were the perfect choices to build up hype for the album.
Love It If We Made It is easily one of my favourite songs the band has ever released. With nods to modern politics and pop culture, *that* dig at Donald Trump and an overall punchy feel, it’s no doubt that when tour comes around this song live will be one of those moments that you find yourself living over and over again in your head forever.
With that in mind, I couldn’t help but feel a bit let down at first listen. I felt like a lot of the songs were easily forgotten, especially Surrounded by Heads and Bodies. It was a bit meh first time around in all honesty.
After a few listens, A Brief Inquiry definitely grew on me. It’s their most ambitious album to date. While the filler tracks did let it down a little, the singles really saved it and it’s made me excited for them to drop Notes on a Conditional Form next year.
The 1975 are a great band and I urge you all to ignore the music snobs jumping on the We HaTe ThEm BeCaUsE iTs CoOl To NoW bandwagon because this record is full of such a good mix of fun and hard-hitting tracks. It’d be a real shame to miss out on it!
I hope you enjoyed my first post, feel free to send me songs/albums/artists to listen to for the future!
Love always, Fiona X
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