Perhaps it’s too early to decide which lyrics are particularly resonant. Should Saturday Night Live Replace This Actor as Joe Biden? Nope.

Ahlgrim: Of the eight songs that were previously released from this album, "If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)" was easily my favorite. What sticks with fans is highly subjective, obviously, and cannot be entirely predicted through the first few listens. Subscriber Ahlgrim: I presume this song title is an extension of Healy's documented obsession with the word "head" ("Surrounded by Heads and Bodies," "Lostmyhead," "Head.Calls.Bending.

Healy has demonstrated an interest in and knack for incorporating pretty much every other genre into his music, so why not? After going on a complete sonic journey, landing at this filler track just makes me painfully and acutely aware that I'm only halfway through the album.

© Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. I'm not sure we needed an interlude this early on, because I'm afraid it might slow down the momentum — but it could also be the band's way of easing into a less harsh, more relaxed sonic landscape. I don't mind it, though.

I'm taking this to mean that I need to prepare for yet another sonic shift as we dig deeper into the back-half of the album. Ahlgrim: Again, I'm not sure we needed another three minutes of sluggish sweetness.

Larocca: "Me & You Together Song" is The 1975 at their poppiest and most playful. And I love how I could immediately imagine myself swaying back and forth in a Webster Hall-type venue, surrounded by people grinning and singing the words. The acoustic, more existential song finds Healy asking himself, “Will I live and die in a band/ My consciousness controls my hand” and wanders through fluttered worries of aging, doomed relationships, and an assortment of other “things playing on [his] mind.” “Guys” is also sure to be a live-show winner. From Healy's hazy backing vocals throughout to the elastic synths and prickly drum beat, there are a lot of textural elements here that you'd surely expect from the band — but these flourishes expertly come together to sonically evoke the generalized anxiety that Healy previously said the song was about. Larocca: "Don't Worry" is more of a poem set to ambient music more than anything else, which works well as a penultimate track. In the closing “Guys,” Healy allows himself an all-out tender love song… to his bandmates. They're both set to elastic, shimmery synths, which all together make for a divine combination. I can't think of another modern musician who can start an album full-scream and snake their way through synth-infused tracks and warm interludes to land at this honeyed duet.

I mean, how many times will “she say” something? I made that sort of face — the scrunched-up nose, the O-shaped mouth — that everyone used to make when an electro-pop song pulled off a really powerful drop. Looking for smart ways to get more from life?

When Healy screams "wake up, wake up, wake up!"

Healy yearns for that white picket fence life with the woman he's "been in love with [...] for ages," while backed by chords plucked right out of 2004. If you don't like any particular song you hear on the 1975's fourth album, stick around — something amid the band's melange of punk-rock, orchestral pomp, sexy folk, lite R&B or Tears for Fears homages is bound to click. The third and fifth numbers are lovely orchestral instrumentals … again, a style never to be repeated.

That’s different.

(But, then again, when is there not?). We can go through their catalog and find deep cuts (see: “Antichrist”), sleepers, and oddly placed interludes, but without a doubt you’ll always find something (in this record’s case, a large number of tracks) that makes you sit back in your seat and go: “Holy fuck, where did that come from?”. bring Taylor Swift into everything I write, Charli XCX's 'How I'm Feeling Now' is a masterclass in experimental pop for the genre-less generation.

All in all, I'm neither thrilled or mad about it.

Ahlgrim: I was vibing to this song just fine for the first minute or so, and then that muted breakdown swooped in and really took it to the next level.

Seriously (and continuously) interesting.

Clearly he enjoys playing with his mostly but not entirely straight identity; “I’m sorry that I’m kinda queer,” he tells a woman he’s infatuated with in “Me & You Together Song,” as if sexuality is one more way to remain indefinable. and the song surges through your body right after Thunberg's speech, the effect is exquisite. In between techno tracks are indie-pop bangers like “If You’re Too Shy (Then Let Me Know)”; ’90s Brit-pop remnants “Me & You Together Song”, “The Birthday Party”, and “Then Because She Goes”; and acoustic melodies such as the Phoebe Bridgers duet “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America” and “Don’t Worry”, a song penned by Healy’s father when he was a wee youngster. With few of your multiple personalties too focused on guitar dynamics? It has a really nice beat and I found myself bobbing up and down on my toes as I listened to it. Musicians: Healy, Daniel, Adam Hann, Ross McDonald. Larocca: I know Healy is an artiste but oh my God, no one wants to listen to this many interludes on a single album! Bands can seem to only be credible if they appeal to the designated judges of quality expression: adult men.

But overall it's a quintessential 1975 bop and I'll never turn my nose up at one of those. (Skip to the end to see the only songs worth listening to and the album's final score.). If they gave you the current single, “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know),” without all the surrounding kitchen-sink stuff, maybe you’d find it easier to object to the essential corniness of an ‘80s MTV pastiche that starts off with a guitar homage to “Everybody Wants to Rules the World” before veering into a pure Hall & Oates sax solo.

This intro song was released back in July, and every time I listen to it, I wonder why everyone isn't talking about climate change constantly — and I wonder how long it'll be until every new album or piece of art is tackling the crisis in some way, literally out of necessity if nothing else.

I knew "Notes" was going to be eclectic and genre-averse, but I really didn't expect this sort of strong Nashville influence. The 1975

Of course there will! Songwriters: Daniel, Healy, Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez, Greta Thunberg, Tim Healy. "Notes" is intended to play as a companion to 2018's Grammy-nominated "A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships."

"I Think There's Something You Should Know".

Healy calls for people his age to "stop just watching s--- in bed" and "get this in our f---ing heads" that "the economy's a goner, republic's a banana.". Not really! After tackling drug addiction, love, lust, and reckoning with fame, it was hard to predict where Notes would fit on that spectrum.

Overall, we thought that while the tracklist ran a touch too long, there was an abundance of bright spots intertwined throughout and no outright skips.

Larocca: This one is a Classic The 1975 Song.