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Maxwell Cavaseno: Despite being the only rock band of their generation worth a listen, The 1975’s sophomore album confounds me. It’s perfectly capable, but it fails to stand out from the swath of rock-leaning pop that’s been put out by Brits in the last 9843084324 years. We haven’t escaped them yet.Ĭrystal Leww: “The Sound” is the most conventional of the 1975’s recent singles with Healy singing this in a much more straightforward way and the music feeling like it’s aiming for Coldplay’s style of everything as percussion. (“Steve Gutenberg was seen less during the 1990s,” mocks Wikipedia.) “It’s not about reciprocation, it’s just all about me,” Matty sings, nailing the era where heedless extravagance and wistful nostalgia learned to feed off one another like those two Neverending Story snakes.
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Josh Langhoff: Like Taylor Swift, these young epicurators were born at the tail end of a decade they think they understand better than their parents - and maybe they’re right! “I know the sound of your heart” suggests ol’ Hutchence-hair was conceived to Boy Meets Girl singing “In my arms baby yeah,” a phrase that could flash in neon across the storefront of the ’80s - witness its elegiac use at the end of 1990’s Three Men and a Little Lady, where our bachelors kiss bachelorhood goodbye and brace themselves for the decade of Friends and Becker and So I Married an Axe Murderer.
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