Latest Release
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- 8 DEC 2023
- 2 Songs
- Being Funny In a Foreign Language · 2022
- I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It · 2016
- I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It · 2016
- Don't Play (feat. The 1975 & Big Sean) - Single · 2014
- The 1975 · 2013
- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships · 2018
- Being Funny In a Foreign Language · 2022
- Being Funny In a Foreign Language · 2022
- The 1975 · 2013
- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships · 2018
Albums
Artist Playlists
- Welcome to the weird and totally irresistible world of The 1975.
- Zane heads to Manchester to meet up with Matty Healy for a deep dive on The 1975's new album.
- Bubblegum pop, '80s exuberance and flashes of solid gold.
- “I think that people really seek comfort in art.”
- Listen to the hits performed on the blockbuster tour.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Live Albums
Appears On
- Zane explores Manchester with frontman Matty Healy.
- New music from The 1975, plus Ariana Grande FaceTimes Zane.
- New music from Gerry Cinnamon, plus Matty Healy FaceTimes Zane.
- Matty Healy selects music and FaceTimes Zane.
About The 1975
The 1975 had already released a platinum-selling album—their 2013 self-titled debut—before they learned to trust their own instincts. “It’s hard to have that confidence when you’re young,” frontman Matty Healy told Apple Music. “A lot of people’s early music has a lot to do with: ‘Is this cool enough to show my mates?’ That can kill bands if they never leave The Hawley Arms”—the Camden pub/epicentre of British indie music in the 2000s. So when they began to make their second album, 2016’s I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, the four-piece resolved to ignore outside expectation. As Healy recalls, it was time to “do exactly what we want”. It was a smart move. Formed at school in Wilmslow, south of Manchester, in 2002, the group spent the second half of the 2010s becoming one of Britain’s biggest bands by continuously reinventing its sound. They’d begun by cloaking ’80s pop drama in the gauzy atmospherics of shoegaze on 2012’s Facedown EP, but were assimilating folk, UK garage, emo, techno, classical and spoken-word features from Greta Thunberg by the time their 22-track fourth album Notes on a Conditional Form arrived in 2020. At the centre of their sonic mazes, Healy, the son of TV actors Denise Welch and Tim Healy, addresses personal dramas and hot-button cultural themes with honesty and wit. If opening up about addiction and recovery ever threaten to shroud him in rock ’n’ roll folklore, songs such as “The Birthday Party”—partly about being too embarrassed to defecate if someone’s in the next room—deflate the myth-making. Sprawling, restless and striding snake-hipped along the line between invention and self-indulgence, their records often resemble great playlists rather than traditional albums. “We create in the way that we consume—with that same kind of pan-excitement,” said Healy. “There’s no rules when it comes to streaming. It doesn’t say, ‘Don’t listen to Headie One after Carole King.’ It’s almost like we don’t have those rules as well. There’s a lot of abrupt scene changes—but that’s what life’s like.”
- ORIGIN
- Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
- FORMED
- 2002
- GENRE
- Alternative