I was pleasantly awoken from my 30 min nap at 1 pm on October 24th to another single from The 1975. The single is called “Frail State of Mind” from their upcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form (NOACF). This recent release follows the first single of the album, The 1975, which was a spoken word piece featuring Greta Thunberg and the second single, “People,” a punk rock tune much different from anything ever heard from the band.
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After the release of “People” this summer, I was interested to hear what the next single might sound like. Unlike “People,” “Frail State of Mind” has a very familiar techno-1975 sound. It initially reminded me of two songs from A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME” and “How To Draw / Petrichor.”
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Like many of The 1975’s songs, it references back to the last song of their most recent album A Brief Inquiry, “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” when Matty sings “I’m sorry, but I always get this way sometimes.”
“Frail State of Mind” is a song that I can have on repeat for hours and not get sick of because it’s so easy on the ears which is why I have had it on repeat for the last 48 hours.