In 'The Ballad Of Me And My Brain' he desperately searches for his mind like a pair of car keys - "Where would I be if I was my brain?" Elsewhere 'The Sound' is almost a straightforward synth-pop song, until the Healyisms begin and "It's just all about me, a sycophantic, prophetic Socratic junkie wannabe. I Like It When You Sleep is essentially a window into Healy's mind as his various thoughts and insecurities pass through. It's also just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the barminess of the album. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform. nikki’s top artists: The 1975, MAX, Taylor Swift. 'If I Believe You' uses a gospel choir and a saxophone solo to tackle questions of faith while pondering "If I'm lost then how can I find myself?" It's a shade different to the horny nihilism of songs like 'Sex' on their debut album that shrugged "If we're gonna do anything, we might as well just f**k". Listen to music from nikki’s library (22,593 tracks played). Calamity created the Epics: humans with incredible powers they didnt deserve. When the great red star Calamity appeared in the sky, some believed the end had come. Then there's 'Loving Someone', which snipes at the integrity of celebrities and flickers between pseudo-intellectual raps - "I'm the Greek economy of cashing intellectual cheques" - and wrestling with the morally dubious position of selling sex as well as music. A Texas Reckoners novel A new team of Reckoners must infiltrate the flying city of Lux to take down the Epic Lifeforce in this audio-exclusive novel from Brandon Sanderson. 'Love Me' vapidly gushes "You look famous, let's be friends" while in 'Paris' the main tragedy is a girl missing a party.because her friend keeps cutting her wrists. There's a dark humour nestled at the heart of every song that generally revolves around Healy sneering at the ridiculousness of fame. It's a record that draws on grappling with mental health, Instagramming salad, horrific comedowns and picking your nose. That means deliberately pretentious album titles like I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It, and a record that's 17 tracks long.īut for an album whose entire lead-up has been so predetermined and contrived, it's surprisingly frank. But did the publicity stunt carry through on its promise, or was it all fur coat and no knickers? Instead it was a reinvention, and when they re-emerged with the promise of a new album they were sporting leather trousers and eyeshadow. Next was the cryptic comic strip with The 1975 telling us they must 'reclaim their identity and repossess their control of it'.Īnd with a goodbye, that was the end of The 1975. Then the break-up rumours started and the band began trending - hard. The 1975 nuked their social media accounts back in May and vanished for 24 hours.