Music / The 1975 (Album)

Yeah, you wanna find love, then you know where the city is.

For crying out loud, settle down!
You know I can't be found with you
We get back to my house
Your hands, my mouth
Now I just stop myself around you

— "Settle Down"

The 1975 is the self-titled debut album by English band The 1975. It was released on 2 September 2013 through Dirty Hit and Polydor.

The album was recorded between fall 2012 and spring 2013, during which the band also released four EPs, where several songs included on the album originally debuted. They toured extensively to support and build momentum for the album, opening for Muse, The Neighbourhood and The Rolling Stones in addition to playing their own gig at the 2013 Reading and Leeds Festival.

In a 2012 interview, singer and frontman Matty Healy stated that the band recorded the album differently from their EPs; whereas the EPs "[centered] around a lead track whilst showcasing a wider body of work", Healy described the album as being in the lineage of albums "where every track could be a potential single".

The 1975 topped the UK Albums Chart less than a week after release. A double-CD deluxe edition of the album was also released, containing the band's four EPs on the second disc; an additional iTunes deluxe edition contains six remixes.

The album was supported by five singles: "Sex" (a re-recording of a song originally on their EP of the same name), "Girls", "Settle Down", "Robbers" and "Heart Out".

Tracklist:

1. "The 1975" (1:19)
2. "The City" (3:26)
3. "M.O.N.E.Y." (3:36)
4. "Chocolate" (3:47)
5. "Sex" (3:27)
6. "Talk!" (2:47)
7. "An Encounter" (1:14)
8. "Heart Out" (3:22)
9. "Settle Down" (3:59)
10. "Robbers" (4:14)
11. "Girls" (4:15)
12. "12" (1:19)
13. "She Way Out" (3:59)
14. "Menswear" (3:26)
15. "Pressure" (3:41)
16. "Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You" (2:54)

They're just tropes, breaking hearts:

• Book Ends: "Sex" opens and ends with a loud whirring sound.
• Drugs Are Bad: "M.O.N.E.Y." Ironically, on the album this song is on, this song is followed by "Chocolate". See Drugs Are Good below.
• Drugs Are Good: Replace all instances of the word "chocolate" with "marijuana" in 'Chocolate', and it makes incredible sense.
• Irony: The main hook of the song "Talk!", which is basically shouted:
  Why you talk so loud? / Why you talk so?
  • The ordering of "M.O.N.E.Y." and "Chocolate" on The 1975 album. See Drugs Are Bad.
• Lyrical Dissonance: "M.O.N.E.Y." is an upbeat funk song about a boy who wastes his money on cocaine to be cool, but eventually gets hurt badly by it ("Tabs with unlimited 0's / New clothes, bloody nose / Powders and walking back home / Has he got enough weed? No / Broken phone, retching on the floor alone..."), is even called out by the narrator ("I can't believe that we're talking about him!") and eventually gets arrested ("I'm searching you, mate, your jaw's all over the place... / Look, the dog won't bark if you don't lark about..."). The song even has Matty sighing at the end like he's just so completely done with the boy and his misdeeds.
• Self-Referential Track Placement: "12", which serves as the twelth track on the album.
• Shout-Out: The video for "Heart Out" could be seen as one to the "Badder" segment in Moonwalker, as it centers around a performance of the song done by kids at a talent show.

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You'd find out everything's gone wrong
Now everybody's dead
And they're driving past my old school
And he's got his gun, he's got his suit on
She says, babe, you look so cool