'Notes On A Conditional Form' review: The 1975's rewarding, disorienting hodgepodge


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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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A rewarding, disorienting hodgepodge

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