Matty Healy of The 1975 onstage during opening day at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2019. Photo: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS
The sheer sprawl of Notes On A Conditional Form – 80 minutes, 22 tracks – is both maddening and impressive.
The 1975 are arguably the most self-aware and astute band of our phone-obsessed era: They’re earnest and ridiculous, ambitious and easily distracted, provocative and trend-hopping. They embrace pop stardom as they question its conventions.
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Summary:
A rewarding, disorienting hodgepodge
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