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COMFORT THE AFFLICTED AND, IF GIVEN THE CHANCE, AFFLICT THE COMFORTABLE: THAT'S MY JOB.” - MATTY HEALY
has been a distillation of the one that preceded it, in the sense that the poppier bits get poppier, the good bits get good-er, the good songwriting becomes more classic or the experimentation becomes more astute,” Matty explains. “This one is different. It has lots of different songwriting on it to what I've done before; we keep looking to each other and being like, 'Can we really make a record like this that isn't a follow up to anything?' “Imagine The 1975 jamming,” he continues, “you can't really, right? But imagine our idea of jamming which is having loads of books and visual references, and a computer and a conversation, and mixing this and saying 'That's fucking dope' - that's kind of what 'Notes...' is.” If the singer was quoted as sort-of-jokingly describing 'A Brief Enquiry...' as The 1975's 'OK Computer', then its successor, he suggests, is “maybe our 'Amnesiac'” - an even stranger, more eclectic beast. You'll know the record's opening gambit by now, the sonically bipolar but similarly state-of-thenation one-two punch of 'The 1975' and balls-out DFA-esque slammer 'People'. Recently-released single 'Frail State of Mind', meanwhile, showcased a completely different side, taking glitchy cues from house music and “going inwards instead of outwards”. “It's about the constant apologising to yourself or feeling the need to apologise to others because you're not on the same vibe. The constant
From Stage to Screen Not content with writing another massive album, Matty’s also been writing a film script in his downtime. Over to you, Matthew. It’s a film called German that I’ve been writing for ages that’s sort of like a British teen movie. It’s about a German trip I went on in Year 10, where we all kind of learnt something. One person got a heart, one got a brain, one got a bit of courage, there was an emotional moment. I was like, this sounds a bit like a film... wait, hold on, this sounds like The Wizard of Oz. So maybe that’ll happen at some point. Just checking… yep, still smokin’.
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