is the band at their most RnB followed by Chocolate and Sex, the singles from their previous EPs. The City has a kind of Vampire Weekend guitar riff that makes you tap your foot to the beat and I’m pretty certain it contains a reference to Misfits (the show, not the band). It leads straight up to the hit single The City which has been re-recorded and given a fuller sound for the album. Recorded at the Motor Museum in Liverpool, with Arctic Monkeys collaborator Mike Crossey, the album kicks off with the eponymous title track The 1975 which is a dark synth laden electronic opener with reverberated vocals pretty much like the ones on their EPs. Working together for such a long time has enabled them to draw from their back catalogue and release 4 EPs and an album in merely two years. Singer Matt Healy, son of actors Tim Healy and Denise Welch, really is living his childhood dream of becoming a pop star. The 1975 really are a bunch of friends that started out a a school band. The 1975 have been around for over a decade changing their name frequently from Talkhouse to The Slowdown to Big Sleep to Drive Like I Do until their eventually settled for The 1975, a name that singer Matt Healy took from a poetry book. Their eponymous debut has become one of the most anticipated releases this year and The 1975 have become Britains new flagship guitar band, and I must say it’s well deserved. It wasn’t until the release of the Sex EP though that I, and thousands of others, became truly hooked and their popularity just sky rocketed. Back then, they had just signed a deal with Dirty Hit and released the first of a string EPs which included the later hit single The City. The 1975 have made themselves quite the name ever since they first popped up on our radar about a year ago.