Listening to UK pop-rockers the 1975 can feel a lot like gorging on the Internet. Formed in 2002, the band samples from pop’s broad spectrum, incorporating Afrobeat, shoegaze, ambient, and gospel—sometimes all in a single song, like they’re concocting a suicide soda using every flavor in a Coke Freestyle machine.…
Listening to UK pop-rockers the 1975 can feel a lot like gorging on the Internet. Formed in 2002, the band samples from pop’s broad spectrum, incorporating Afrobeat, shoegaze, ambient, and gospel—sometimes all in a single song, like they’re concocting a suicide soda using every flavor in a Coke Freestyle machine.…