PEOPLE POWER
The 1975 have always been a hard band to peg. Since the release of their self-titled debut album in 2012, the Manchester-based foursome have embraced a wide swathe of styles — acoustic balladry, bouncy Balearic house, AutoTune-abusing R&B, the slick sheen of 80s pop. Their current album, Notes On A Conditional Form, continues the genre-jumping journey, bringing elements of punk, neo-soul, downtempo electronic music and country into the band’s ever-morphing approach. And in this album’s first single, People, a song mixing T. Rex swagger with black-eyeliner screamo, there is the heaviest-sounding riff they’ve ever recorded – a riff described “ridiculous” by its creator, lead guitarist Adam Hann.
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