Cassette
Dirty Hit (2016) US
The breakthrough band of the year, The 1975 released their self-titled debut album through Dirty Hit/Polydor in 2013. The 1975 reflects the Manchester art-pop quartet’s shape-shifting adventurousness, an album of indelible choruses and mesmeric melodies that glides from electro grooves to alt-rock explosions to dreamy interludes.
The 1975 was recorded at the Motor Museum in Liverpool, with Arctic Monkeys collaborator Mike Crossey co-producing alongside the band’s Matthew Healy and George Daniel. A seamless meld of their kaleidoscopic range of influences, it encapsulates all that is great about pop music in 2013.
Tracklist:
Side A
1. The 1975
2. The City
3. M.O.N.E.Y.
4. Chocolate
5. Sex
6. Talk!
7. An Encounter
8. Heart Out
Side B
1. Settle Down
2. Robbers
3. Girls
4. 12
5. She Way Out
6. Menswear
7. Pressure
8. Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You