It is inspiring being in a room with Greta as she is only interested in her cause. It’s not an intimidating presence, or a cold presence, but it’s a real sense of purpose and that instilled a sense of optimism in me. – Matty
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“People” is about young voices of progression being drowned out by old regressive ideals. It sounds and feels like anger and momentum, like falling forward. – Matty
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Ambient music - music with no lyrics - generates every emotional, sonic quality of The 1975. All the ambient moments, be them quite sprawling or epic or delicate, it’s essentially the engine left running in between songs. – Matty
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We’ve been a band for 17 years and the main reason we make lots of different types of music is because if we didn’t, we’d be fucking bored. Reaching to be bold is more avoiding being bored. – Matty
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“Streaming” was kind of incidental. It started as a loose, synth ambient piece of music. – Matty
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The Birthday Party was written as a drumbeat, baseline and vocals and then everything else came around it. It was a confessional, simple, journal entry. – Matty
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Yeah I Know is one modular synth sound, one beat and three or four lyrics. Stark simplicity, with purpose. – Matty
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Having other people involved in what I do gives me anxiety a lot of the time, but none of that happened with Phoebe. It was quite casual, it was like finding an instrument for me. – Matty
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Referencing old lyrics is very me, because it’s never a different story, it’s a continuation of the story. I think post-modernism drives a lot of my work. – Matty
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It’s a very unique vocal delivery on this song. I wouldn’t call it rapping, it’s just flow. I get to kind of flow and rhythmically punctuate with words. – Matty
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I struggled with this song because it was almost like a sonic experiment, a mixture of samples. – Matty
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George made this arrangement of sounds and sent it to Cutty Ranks saying this is my interpretation of what the lyrics would be. One of the lines rhythmically sounded to George like ‘killing resulting in microphone culture’, which is one of the best lines on the album. – Matty
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I think this song is what punk is right now, because it’s brash and it’s out there. It references stuff that’s come before but it doesn’t sound like anything else. I know we do that all the time, but to me it feels like doing the expected is now quite subversive. – Matty
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