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Generally favorable reviews- based on 200 Ratings
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Positive: 132 out of 200
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Mixed: 37 out of 200
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Negative: 31 out of 200
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May 23, 2020Excellent “album”...body of work. Diverse, masterful and huge production. So many notable influences summing to beautiful originality. I’ll spend a lot of time with this album
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May 24, 2021
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Jun 2, 2020They excel in any contemporary style. The band of our times and hopefully our future.
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May 25, 2020the first listen is a lot, as this album has a lot to say... but damn it only gets better every time
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May 22, 2020Talented. Brilliant. Incredible. Amazing. Show stopping. Spectacular. Never be the same. Totally unique. Completely not ever been done before.
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Aug 30, 2020Despite everyone else, I believe that this is their best album. NOACF shows us their evolution and their ability to explore different genres of music. It's a perfect body of work. A masterpiece.
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May 22, 2020The "lack of purpose" is the most personal, honest and pure trait of the album. This is about what modernity really is, they know about it and somehow they found a way to "embrace it" through the hole concept of the album. I'm speechless. This is pure art.
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May 23, 2020
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May 22, 2020
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May 22, 2020Its beautiful chaos. Notes on a conditional form is some of the best work that they have done. Each instrumental gives you an opportunity is digest the album as it goes along navigating through genre after genre with that 1975 take.
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May 25, 2020the great part of the album is varied, The 1975 shows us that once again they are not only an indie band but they know how to go further than their base genre.
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May 25, 2020Dope album. Only band putting out new music with anything meaningful or thought provoking.
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Nov 24, 2020Una muy buena produccion, aunque cada cancion tiene generos diferentes estan muy bien cuidadas y realizadas y tiene hits como if youre too shy let me know, guys
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Mar 1, 2023This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 29, 2020Most people don't like the diversity of this album. I on the other hand love it.
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May 22, 2020Goes off in so many different directions and there really is a song for everybody on this album. Personally for me it features some of the best work they have done, along with some randomness, but thats what you have to expect with The 1975!
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May 22, 2020Brilliant sonic soundscapes and a huge range. This is a superb album - varied, vibrant and vital!
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May 22, 2020
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Jul 24, 2020
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Oct 27, 2020Iconic. A completely different experience. A album with the excellent quality of variation. The 1975 know how make music with a lot of genres.
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May 22, 2020
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May 29, 2020Overlong but brimming with classic 1975 stylings. Hard to despise and the highlights elevate the project far above the lows. "Roadkill" and "If You're Too Shy" are the songs every artist dreams of making.
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May 23, 2020I waited so long for it, I've been blessed. Very different from the previous albums but just as good.
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Jun 17, 2020I do admire The 1975's ambition, experimenting with different genres, and making the album's scope MASSIVE. (The album's length is a whopping 80 MINUTES!)
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Jun 19, 2020
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Jun 4, 2020
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Jul 9, 2020This is a bit of a lesser follow up to their previous work but Matt Healy once again connects with the youth and millennial culture by cashing in on all of the tropes and anxieties of being young.
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May 25, 2020I was anticipating something even better than their previous album, but I guess that's kinda fun, too. However, Notes on a conditional form has some perfect songs.
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May 22, 2020This album is great but some songs like Roadkill, Shiny Collarbone and Yeah I Know should probably have not been included in the album. I think the pushing back of the album was negative knowing that more songs were going to be in the album. The singles are great. Maybe they should have shorten the album by 12-15 songs, not have 22 songs on it.
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May 7, 2021in my opinion, their worst album. that said though it is still a decent and enjoyable record.
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Sep 1, 2020
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Nov 14, 2020
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Jul 12, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 22, 2020Not on Brief Inquiry level but still good.. i feel like the more i hear, the best it turns
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Jul 2, 2020It was a nice album, starting between two very coherent songs, but the album continues in different directions between electronic indie rock and 90s even dancehall rhythms, the goal of sound experimentation is remarkable, but I am missing the common one. thread.
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Nov 6, 2020A weird album where if you put it on shuffle the album flows better. Although everything sounds good and musically sounds unique there is no cohesive sound meaning that the whole album experience isn't as good as picking singles out and listening to them.
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Aug 26, 2020
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May 22, 2020
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May 22, 2020
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May 22, 2021
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Mar 2, 2023Not a bad album, just not for me [as a long time fan]. Felt too detached from their first few albums. I can definitely see the appeal though and enjoyed the tour!
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Jun 20, 2020This album is woof woof compared to every other album they've made. Some songs are straight up unlistenable. The singles were the only decent songs on the album. The only non-single songs that don't sound awful are What Should I say, Yeah I Know, I Think There's Something You Should Know. I can't permasimp for a band that can't make decent new music anymore, so this album sucks.
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May 31, 2020Worthies (10/22):
- People
- Then Because She Goes
- Me & You Together Song
- I Think There's Something You Should Know
- Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied
- Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)
- Shiny Collarbone
- If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)
- What Should I Say
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May 22, 2020
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May 22, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 31, 2020
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Apr 25, 2021
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Jan 7, 2022A few decent songs among the bunch, which is too bad because the album is essentially 3/4 filler. They took the sound and concept of TOOTIME, possibly the band's worst song in their entire catalog, and made an album with it. Hopefully if they release a new album in the future they can move away from this computerized mess.
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May 27, 2020NOACF is utterly tasteless and incompetently mixed, devoid of creativity or interesting melodies. This half country / half ambient synth-pop record is beyond misguided: it's lazy. The 1975 are a skeleton of what they once were.
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May 22, 2020There are some good tracks on this album. However, the album lacks purpose and feels very untidy. Whilst a diverse range of genres is most appreciated, this album signifies that The 1975 no longer possesses the unique style they once had. A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships should have been the framework to build off for this album.
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May 22, 2020
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May 23, 2020
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May 29, 2020
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May 28, 2020
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May 22, 2020
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May 29, 2020
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May 22, 2020Pretentious, convoluted mess of an album. Could’ve been trimmed to a promising EP.
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Jun 17, 2020
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May 22, 2020After being a huge fan of a couple of their singles over their years i expected them to return to their original vibes with this one but what I found was an unbalanced, disoriented mess of an album with very little purpose. There was only maybe two tracks that stood out which is as bad as most of the 80s one hit wonder albums.
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May 22, 2020Awful.
I tried to like it but every other song is an autotuned mess. Matt's completely lost his mind (probably all the drugs and weed he smokes). One of the worst releases in the past 10 years. I'll put it down there with all the other gangster rap. -
May 22, 2020What happened to this band? I didn’t like a brief inquire as well as the first 2 albums but this one is by far the worst album they’ve released. An instrumental every other song? The first part of the album sucks and the end of the album sucks. The middle is ok, I feel so let down....
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May 22, 2020One big fat ego reflecting and boosting release. Jam packed full of instrumental filler and auto tune. All with the goal of sounding deep and motivational but just ends up falling flat on its face, not like that matters because Matty Healy could literally release an album of silence and his cult like fanbase would still call it ‘art’
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Aug 2, 2020PAREM DE FAZER MÚSICA EU TO IMPLORANDO PAREM DE FAZER MUSICA PRA ADOLESCENTES REVOLTADOS DE 16 ANOS VOCÊS JÁ TEM 30 ANOS PELO AMOR DE DEUS
Awards & Rankings
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Aug 3, 2020A Brief Inquiry is a hard album to top, and Notes is, perhaps, the most disjointed and unclassifiable of the 1975’s works. It serves best, perhaps, as a long and intermittently lovely outro to that defining record.
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Jun 16, 2020Notes on a Conditional Form is a fantastic 12 track, 45-minute album. It’s just a shame that The 1975 decided to make it into a 22 track, 80 minute one. There’s certainly enough going on to recommend repeat listens, but the quality level waxes and wanes so much throughout that it won’t take you too long to find your favorites and start returning to just those.
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May 27, 2020The diversity is so vast and so well done that it’s almost commendable. Mainly though, it’s just a bit much for one sitting, and instead feels more like you’re listening to The 1975 radio on Spotify.