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The five biggest talking points about The 1975's new album

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships is finally here

After months and months of build-up, The 1975’s new album A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships is here.

Matty Healy and co.’s third full-length contains *deep breath* massive singles Give Yourself A Try and Tootimetootimetootime, a Siri-narrated interlude, some of the band’s most heartfelt and emotional songs to date, big ballads, loads of saxophone, heaps of autotune, and frontman Healy’s trademark confessional lyrics.

It’s a lot to take in, but diehard 1975 fans are already picking out the record’s big talking points and here are the biggest five.

1. It’s making a lot of people cry

Healy has a lot to say on this album, giving commentary on everything from substance abuse to our relationship with technology. But fans are picking out the acoustic-led Be My Mistake as the most tear-inducing track.

“I get lonesome sometimes,” Healy admits over twinkling pianos and a gorgeous guitar line. It’s one of their most simple songs to date, getting straight to the point. 10 seconds in and you’ll be sobbing.

2. The Siri song is actually great?!

Not many other bands, if any, could make a song like The Man Who Married A Robot / Love Theme. In a nutshell, it’s a three-minute track narrated by Apple’s virtual assistant Siri, and it’s about loneliness, the Internet, life and death.

If that sounds a bit weird on paper, don’t worry: somehow it’s one of the most beautiful songs on the album; a strange, funny and intentionally dark track that somehow captures all the feels. Nobody’s quite sure how The 1975 have managed to pull it off.

3. Everyone’s obsessed with the closing track

It’s called I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes), and it has major Oasis vibes. Or major Busted vibes, depending on who you ask.

A festival anthem in waiting, it finds Healy reflecting on his lowest moments before declaring: “If you can’t survive, just try.”

The song has everything a closing track needs; huge skyscraper guitars, cinematic strings, and a vocal that soars over the noise. Just imagine belting this one out in a muddy field in 2019.

4. All the song titles sum up our lives

Radio 1 have set up a brilliant game, where you can make your own 1975 song title. Try it below.

What did you get? Was it similar to any of the actual titles on this album? For example: I Like America & America Likes Me, It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You) and How to Draw / Petrichor. We're guessing yes.

5. Somehow, there’s a whole new album on the horizon!

That’s right. If this new album left you wanting more, their fourth record Notes on a Conditional Form is down to drop in 2019. Initially dubbed for February, Healy recently told Dazed it will be out by August. Expect something more electronic, moody and introspective.

Healy told Pitchfork that new track How to Draw/Petrichor gives a little hint about what’s to come, adding: “[The new album is] taking shape. It just didn’t make sense to tour for two years and make one album, being the band I want to be. It’s not how it’s happening now. It’s not how even I consume things: I watch something on Netflix and it’s like, ‘That was the greatest thing I've ever seen. Next?’”

Let’s be honest, we’re always down to hear more new music from The 1975.