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The 1975
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The 1975:I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
Review by Andy Gill,The Independent, 26 February 2016
WHILE THIS follow-up shares some of the annoying mannerisms that curdled one's enjoyment of The 1975's 2013 debut, it's ultimately a much more enjoyable and ...
Matt Healy's comments about Taylor Swift were not the words of a misogynist
Comment by Laura Barton,The Guardian, 18 March 2016
The 1975 singer attracted controversy by saying that dating Taylor Swift would be emasculating. It was me he was speaking to, and I saw an ...
Live Review by Ian Gittins,The Guardian, 16 December 2016
Matt Healy lounge-lizards across the stage as his band charm the first of two sellout O2 crowds with sharp-edged, irresistible songs. ...
How The 1975's Matty Healy Kicked Heroin and Took the Band to New Heights
Interview by Dorian Lynskey,Billboard, 2 August 2018
The most ambitious pop-rock band of its generation nearly succumbed to Matty Healy's heroin addiction. Now clean, the flamboyant frontman is taking his group to ...
The 1975:A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
Review by David Bennun,Metro, 27 November 2018
SOMETIMES YOU hear a record that feels like comfort in a diffuse and dissonant age, a warm, reassuring record that harks back to former certainties, ...
The 1975:A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
Review by Maura Johnston,Rolling Stone, 4 December 2018
The UK band's latest cuts through our social media malaise with some highly emotional songs and a sound that replicates the sonic placelessness of the ...
Live Review by Peter Ross,The Times, 14 January 2019
IN BLUE BOILER suit and red Converse, like some hipster Winston Smith, Matty Healy appeared more 1984 than 1975 as he took the Hydro stage. ...
The 1975:Notes on a Conditional Form
Review by Nick Hasted,The Arts Desk, 21 May 2020
The band's fourth album lunges for meaning with its monologue by Greta Thunberg and foresees social isolation. ...
The 1975: Love Songs of a Dirtbag
Essay by Ann Powers,NPR, 14 October 2022
How The 1975's Matty Healy became the bad boy you love to roll your eyes at ...
Live Review by David Bennun,Metro, 9 January 2023
The 1975 tour review: Ingenious stage design for band that dragged rock into the new era ...
Reading Festival: from Billie Eilish to Rina Sawayama, the kick-ass Barbies outshine the dull Kens
Review by Stephen Dalton,The Evening Standard, 28 August 2023
It still has its gender imbalance issues but the women on the bill this year were the ones not to miss. ...
Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government
Comment by Dorian Lynskey,The Guardian, 2 July 2024
Dave's lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa's bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap's Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow's hymn for asylum seekers… here are the ...
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