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The 1975
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Feb 26, 2016
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Feb 23, 2016The band has eclipsed the success of their debut record, creating the first masterpiece of the year and a record that will remain one for years to come.
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Feb 26, 2016What they’ve made is a bold body of work that sounds effortless and odd and sophisticated. What they do next is likely to be stadium-filling and bonkers and brilliant, but it matters little when what they're doing now is so sensational.
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Feb 26, 2016Healy may get lost in his head, but I Like It... is a delightful, overshare-y trip that celebrates a new era of boundaryless pop.
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Jun 6, 2016I Like It When You Sleep is 17 tracks long. By any standard, it’s an expansive collection, riddled with caution-to-the-wind sonic experiments and bits of alchemical production flourishes. Surprisingly, though, there aren’t any significant misfires here.
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Feb 29, 2016While 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 considered work, one which starts to deliver on the immense hype that accompanied their emergence.
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Feb 29, 2016As the title implies, it may take the 1975 a while to get to the point on I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, but when they do, the results are revelatory.
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Feb 29, 2016Any record that burrows as deep into your psyche as I Like It... should be considered essential. It’s hugely clever and wryly funny, too.
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Feb 29, 2016They decided that they could completely renovate their brand and rely on their fanbase to follow; lucky for them, it’s working. It’s a new era, and the 1975 are taking you with them.
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Feb 25, 2016You’re left with an album that fancies itself as a challenging work of art, but turns out to be a collection of fantastic pop songs full of interesting, smart lyrics, but also peppered with self-conscious lunges for a gravitas it doesn’t really need.
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Q MagazineFeb 23, 2016As ambitious an album as you will hear from a young British group and they mostly pull it off. [Mar 2016, p.104]
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Feb 23, 2016These songs have strong, familiar features, but they build off of one another; every one of them is full of hyperactive, bats**t detail that makes it immediately attributable to this band alone.
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Feb 26, 2016In the hands of other bands, this slippery focus might feel like genre whiplash or a bait-and-switch. Yet the album coheres shockingly well, thanks to smart sequencing and the vocal progression of frontman Matt Healy.
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Mar 3, 2016What these songs share, the pairing of Healy's witty, bratty lyricism with athletic and adventurous musicianship, prove that this band is comfortable moving in all directions at once.
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UncutFeb 29, 2016Overblown and occasionally excruciating, I Love It...'s fearless perversity nonetheless puts most "alternative" bands to shame. [Apr 2016, p.67]
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Feb 26, 2016Given some judicious editing, this could have been a truly great album; as it stands, we'll have to settle for just really, really good.
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Feb 25, 2016When you sleep... has a much more distinct and iconoclastic character than their slick debut, drawing from the effervescent, percolating polish of early '80s Hot 100 pop that they flirted with on "Heart Out.".... That doesn't mean that When you sleep is consistent by any stretch. It's 75 minutes long, which could mostly be solved by trimming the four (!) lengthy ambient tracks on the record.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 193 out of 228
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Mixed: 17 out of 228
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Negative: 18 out of 228
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