вЂњI donвЂ™t think thereвЂ™s a ceiling on this one.вЂќДressed as only an off-duty singer would be - fawn cardigan, flared blue velvet trousers, Thrasher slip-on skate shoes - Healy is bobbing around on a sunlit sofa at Angelic, the picturesque residential studio in the Northamptonshire countryside where the band has been living for the past seven months. вЂњAll the signs are that the band will just keep on growing,вЂќ says Jeff Regan, senior director of music programming at SiriusXMвЂ™s Alt-Nation channel. вЂњWhen I think IвЂ™m at my most impenetrable, thatвЂ™s when it gets the biggest reaction,вЂќ says Healy. Its tracks have been covered by Lorde, Halsey, Chvrches and Dashboard Confessional. The bandвЂ™s second album, 2016вЂ™s i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, topped the BillboardВ 200, yielded four topВ 10 hits on the Hot Rock Songs chart and elevated the group to headlining arenas and festivals. In the current climate, Healy is surprised TheВ 1975 is as popular as it is. TheВ 1975 would have made more sense in the 1980s, when pop was colonized by the post-punk and art-rock diaspora, and a record as bold and idiosyncratic as Peter GabrielвЂ™s So (one of HealyвЂ™s favorites) could result in topВ 10 hits, platinum discs and inclusion on teen-movie soundtracks. The 1975 Release Pulsing Single 'Love It If We Made It': Listen Healy doesnвЂ™t think thereвЂ™s anyone else in TheВ 1975вЂ™s lane. Their fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form, will be more intimate, nocturnal and cinematic. The self-produced AВ Brief Inquiry, out in November, ranges from Auto-Tuned house to blue-eyed soul, art-rock to the Great American Songbook. Their albums include almost everything but straight rock. Really, TheВ 1975 only qualifies as a rock band in the sense that it is a commercially successful group of four men who play instruments, which makes them an endangered species in 2018. As I grow as an artist, I just want to be sincere.вЂќ ItвЂ™s difficult because everythingвЂ™s so postmodern and self-referential and hyperaware of everything being bullshit. IвЂ™m so aware of the vocabulary of rockвЂ™nвЂ™roll, and whatвЂ™s tired. вЂњI do the Jim Morrison thing a bit,вЂќ he says, вЂњbut I know that you know that I know that this isnвЂ™t real. Onstage, he deconstructs his own performance as he goes along, like a Father John Misty for teenagers. Matty Healy is a rock star for a generation thatвЂ™s too clued-in to believe in rock stars. вЂњThe manicness seems to resonate with people, because they know how it feels to be likeвЂ¦вЂќ He struggles to sum up the generational condition. Healy agrees that his radical honesty about his own anxiety might be the key to the fervor of TheВ 1975вЂ™s fan base. вЂњThatвЂ™s why I was a good drug addict, because it used to stop me being like that.вЂќ This earnest craving to be understood creates a sense of intimacy disproportionate to the fact that weвЂ™ve only just met. He has the helter-skelter intelligence of an autodidact, name-dropping Debord and Dostoevsky, and accidentally inventing words like вЂњdissolvement.вЂќ His brain swerves between extremes of self-belief and self-doubt, so itвЂ™s hard to keep up with all the qualifications, revisions, digressions and apologies as he tries to crystallize what he means. The 1975: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shoot Because I knew that one more time and thatвЂ™s it.вЂќ вЂњThe fact that I knew I was building on something that wasnвЂ™t destroying made me feel really strong. вЂњPeople had started to lose respect for me, but not an irredeemable amount,вЂќ he says, running his hands through his scruffy, half-peroxided hair. The singer spent seven weeks at a rehab clinic in Barbados in November and December and has been clean since then.

Healy says his habit was the first time a secret ever came between them.

So I went downstairs and told George I should go to rehab.вЂќ Daniel is the bandвЂ™s production whiz and HealyвЂ™s closest friend they live virtually next door to each other in east London. вЂњI realized that was absolute fucking bullshit. If you want songs, weвЂ™re just going to have to get on with it.вЂќ The next morning, he woke up mortified. Healy winces and inhales a Marlboro Light as he paraphrases what he said: вЂњListen, everyone has to get onboard because IвЂ™m the fucking main deal.

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