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THE 1975
‘NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM’
debuts at # 1
on the Aria album chart

FOURTH CONSECUTIVE #1 ON THE UK CHART

OUT NOW VIA
DIRTY HIT / SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT AUSTRALIA

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“22 well written songs that prove a successful attempt at not just thinking outside the box but shattering it and building something beautiful.” – The Sunday Mail ★★★★★  

“One of the year’s best releases thus far.” – The Australian ★★★★

“A pensive 22-track opus that reassembles all the self-referential Easter egg building-blocks of their back-catalogue, but showcases a brave new world in which the four-piece continue to eschew all expectations. Forget everything you thought you already knew about The 1975. Palpable emotions, candid lyricism, undefinable soundscapes; ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ bestows all that, but more.” – Coup De Main

“Notes On A Conditional Form offers a loving sense of relatability and authenticity in a world that appears to be falling apart at the seams.” – The Music ★★★★ ½

“Imagine Radiohead with emo upbringings and no allergy to pop stardom” –  The Sydney Morning Herald ★★★ ½

“The 1975 continue to push forward and create ripples of intrigue that entice listeners in before being hit with the healthy dose of authenticity that makes them stay. The accidental poster boy that is Matty Healy is at his boldest this time around, ditching sweeping motives for direct statements in a way that bluntly says the band aren’t playing around anymore. It’s 2020, and The 1975 have something to say.”-Pilerats

“The 1975 have made the album at the end of the world.” – NME

“In the pantheon of pop greats” – Q Magazine

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The 1975’s new album NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM has gone straight to no.1 on the ARIA album chart, marking their second ARIA #1 debut after 2016’s I LIKE IT WHEN YOU SLEEP, FOR YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL YET SO UNAWARE OF IT.  NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM has also landed the top spot on the UK Official Albums Chart with 34,000 chart sales  – marking their fourth consecutive #1 debut. The 1975 are  only the sixth band to reach the top spot with their first four albums in the UK, alongside Coldplay (8), Oasis (7), Arctic Monkeys (6), The Killers (5) and Keane (4).

Out now through Dirty Hit / Sony Music Entertainment Australia, NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM is the follow-up to 2018’s A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS, the record that marked The 1975 out not just as the band of their generation, but as a band for the ages too. Front man Matty Healy and co-songwriter George Daniel, bassist Ross MacDonald and guitarist Adam Hann formed the group 17 years ago as childhood friends in Wilmslow and NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM is another landmark statement in a career full of them.

“Every time I do a 1975 record, I kind of just go through my catalogue of music, the mental rolodex,” says Matty. “And I think that Notes is an interesting record, because it has our most aggressive moments and our most tranquil moments and they’re quite harshly lined up against each other. I don’t have a playlist of one type of music, so I don’t consume music like that, and when I’m inspired it’ll never happen twice in one genre.”

Seamlessly bridging the gap between A BRIEF INQUIRY and NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM, The 1975 have continually released music in the run-up to the album release. Each has been a complete shift, not just musically, ranging from UK garage to electronica to indie-pop, but lyrically and even image-wise: the anarcho-punks amid the chaos in the ‘People’ video are the Blur-wannabe indie-pop kids in the ‘Me & You Together Song’ video are the CGI avatars in the video for the dreamy ‘The Birthday Party’. The most recent, ‘If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)’ takes things back almost to the source of The 1975 – a John Hughes movie bop with glimmering electronic glisses and cavernous ‘80s chords, but paired with a modern tale of lust-via-webcam and a minimalist, monochrome video. It’s proof of The 1975’s ability to simultaneously explore the leftfield while delivering giant pop bangers and resulted in the band’s highest chart position to date.

Early in the process of making NOACF, Matty spoke about the album being all about the now– about art that reflects the world and the band at the point of creation. It’s a statement that’s borne out in the finished record, a 22-track monster that is as concerned with everyday ennui on the micro scale as it is with ecological disaster on the macro. The record begins with the latest version of The 1975, the signature instrumental piece that appears in a different form on each of their albums. This one, released in July 2019, is a stirring, proactive speech from teenage activist Greta Thunberg mandating fans to wake up to environmental disaster.

“To have that voice and that sentiment on the record, I couldn’t think of anybody more powerful,” says Matty.

Recording for the album has been ongoing since the release of A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS, taking in 15 studios in four countries and a mobile studio set-up aboard the band’s tourbus as they took A BRIEF INQUIRY…’s spectacular stage-show on the road.

On NOACF, the band’s family has grown to encompass new collaborators too, including actor Timothy Healy, Matty’s father. ‘Don’t Worry’ was written by Healy senior when Matty was 11, and was dusted down and recorded by the band for NOACF. Elsewhere, FKA Twigs and Phoebe Bridgers lend their vocals as backing textures and a duet from the latter.

“It became such a personal record that there were no rules anymore,” says Matty. “ Anybody who had breached the intimacy of the studio was inherently part of the record already. With Phoebe, I just felt like I hadn’t loved a female vocal like hers in like a decade – I was obsessed with her record.”

The release of NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM marks the conclusion of the MUSIC FOR CARS era, an umbrella title encompassing their third and fourth records, two releases that changed everything. From here, The 1975 can go anywhere.

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NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM
TRACKLIST

1. The 1975
2. People
3. The End (Music For Cars)
4. Frail State Of Mind
5. Streaming
6. The Birthday Party
7. Yeah I Know
8. Then Because She Goes
9. Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America
10. Roadkill
11. Me & You Together Song
12. I Think There’s Something You Should Know
13. Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied
14. Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)
15. Shiny Collarbone
16. If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
17. Playing On My Mind
18. Having No Head
19. What Should I Say
20. Bagsy Not In Net
21. Don’t Worry
22. Guys

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