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Sep 3, 2013Simply put, this record already feels timeless.
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Sep 3, 2013Cuts like "The City," "Chocolate," and "Sex" drive and climb like the best anthemic '80s stadium rock, roiling a host of influences into a single distinct sound that, the moment it hits your ears, becomes timeless.
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Sep 4, 2013They’re successfully anthemic on “She Way Out,” like a nerdy, English version of the Gaslight Anthem. But when they try on modern, digitally glitchy production on “Menswear,” by contrast, it feels (ironically, given the track’s title) like they’re struggling in ill-fitting clothes.
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Aug 30, 2013It’s a great pop record with plenty of depth (a rare thing) that will prove divisive.
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Oct 4, 2013With The 1975, the Manchester group has crafted a skillful pop album that you can listen to while you stare out the window at some dreary weather or while you drive around with the top down, not an easy expanse to cover.
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Sep 10, 2013It's almost as if the songs were constructed by way of algorithm.
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Sep 4, 2013It's all promising, even if their debut leans harder on style than substance.
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Sep 3, 2013There is undeniable passion and love infused throughout these songs and, if they tick all the right boxes, they do it magnificently.
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Sep 10, 2013If lyrics like, “If you wanna find love / then you know where the city is,” still satisfy some unrequited teenage dreams, then The 1975 should fulfill that naïveté.
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Sep 12, 2013Their spit-polished full-length is a throwback to the sort of CD-era pop rock album everyone remembers buying at least once: The one with the re-recorded single surrounded mostly by less-developed, vaguely similar stuff.
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Oct 15, 2013The 1975 is far from a perfect album. But in many ways, its flaws are part of its charm.
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014Highly intriguing. [Oct 2013, p.97]
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Oct 18, 2013The LP mostly forces unconvincing emo lyrics into a bloopy 1980s package.
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Aug 30, 2013[The 1975] offer up some memorable songs with some sharp lyrics.
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Aug 30, 2013With their lyrical focus on teen sex, money and the misplaced glamour of crime, at times it's like “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, for boys.
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Sep 3, 2013It's a Gary Barlow idea of what indie music sounds like.
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Aug 30, 2013This is pop, pure and simple, and taken as such, is a rollicking pleasure.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 143 out of 173
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Mixed: 16 out of 173
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Negative: 14 out of 173
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