No, folks, today it’s also the entirely-too-long title for a pretty rad The 1975 LP.ĭespite boasting a strange likeness to the musings of a clingy ex-boyfriend, as well as a length that merits the inclusion of a comma, the album title is awesome. 26, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful, yet so unaware of it isn’t just the inward thoughts of a relentless stalker watching from outside some window. And I hate to say I told you so, but well, here we are.Īs of Feb. It’s an entirely true statement and a bit of a mouthful, but probably something egomaniacal frontman Matty Healy would eat right up.Īnyway, I immediately concluded that the highly anticipated title reveal would either be something insufferably anti-climactic, or incredibly profound and annoyingly long-winded. I expected some absurd onomatopoeia, the emittance of an apathetic grunt just like the name of The 1975’s already-a-hit single “UGH!.” I wouldn’t have been surprised if the band had called it something stupid and rambly like Four Guys (A Ragtag Group of Angsty Synth-Pop Wizards and Electro-Rock Deities Straight Outta Manchester, England) Record a Pretty Sick Sophomore Album. I mean, for a band that seems to view being even remotely mainstream as one of the seven deadly sins, it’s safe to assume The 1975’s second studio album would boast a wonderfully wacky, perhaps perfectly puzzling little title.

Knowing The 1975 as well as I do-not personally, of course, but more like on a pseudo-spiritual level after paying entirely too much to attend concerts and consistently playing its debut album on loop while running on the treadmill-I just knew the name would be imbued with some serious quirkiness.

When The 1975 first announced the release of its highly anticipated sophomore album via Twitter in early June 2015, the only thing I really wanted to know was what those crazy kids were going to call it.

Pressure the 1975 album cover