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10.0
131807
10.0 |
The Skinny
Whether it's reinvention or simply revisitation, The 1975 strip things back to basics to present one of their most complete records to date
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10.0
131817
10.0 |
Gigwise
Back at their best
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10.0
131819
10.0 |
Dork
A band who have always seemed to both attract and crave adoration, this more refined take – eleven tracks makes this their shortest album to date by far – seems best defined by just how secure it sounds within its own presence
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9.0
131856
9.0 |
XS Noize
There's something for everyone here, which is appreciated and shows growth without being overzealous, and Antonoff's production brings vividness to the entire work
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8.0
131815
8.0 |
NME
After a phase of experimentation, the band’s fifth album is succinct, cuttingly self-aware, and boasts some of their most-direct pop hits in years
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8.0
131816
8.0 |
DIY
There is something strangely satisfying about its consistency and confidence
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, like most of their projects, has something for everyone, but this time does stay in one lane – and that’s for the better
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8.0
131859
8.0 |
The Guardian
The band have given up irony and bombast in favour of heartfelt snapshots of millennial life – though, as ever, frontman Matty Healy can’t quite resist going too far
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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
This new record is half the size of its messy 2020 predecessor, and all the better for it
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8.0
131870
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
They reassert themselves at the forefront of 2020s pop-rock, fusing together the textures and musical ideas of soft-rock hits from three decades ago with modern sensibilities in a way that sounds instantly familiar, yet distinctively of-the-moment
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8.0
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8.0 |
Pitchfork
Matty Healy taps Jack Antonoff to help produce a concise, meaningful, pop-focused album about love. It’s cliché, it’s obvious, it’s slyly profound—it’s the 1975
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8.0
131886
8.0 |
All Music
With Being Funny in a Foreign Language, Healy and the 1975 do seem to have matured, confidently jumping off the ropes and back into the center of the pop music ring
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8.0
131906
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Jack Antonoff’s production keeps Healy and company’s music sounding human even at its slickest
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7.0
132012
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Being Funny in a Foreign Language is the 1975’s shortest LP to date, and maybe not so coincidentally, it also might be their best
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7.0
131875
7.0 |
musicOMH
A gradual, encouraging maturation from Matty Healy and co which combines melodious songwriting with some bracingly abject lyrics
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6.0
131888
6.0 |
The FT
The English band scale back their usual high level of ambition for their fifth album
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6.0
131871
6.0 |
PopMatters
The 1975 want to be funny in a foreign language, but on their fifth go-round, their ambitions are tempered in plain English
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6.0
131830
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
There’s a dreamy fuzz around him, a languid unmooring from familiar sounds
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5.0
131806
5.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Finds The 1975 losing touch with their reality
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4.0
131857
4.0 |
The Irish Times
The biggest problem with Being Funny in a Foreign Language — apart from it sounding like a substandard rehash of their most promising moments — is that there is no real craft to these clunky, desultory songs
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