Flying On Clipped Wings

An old album, but I really wanted to dissect this album, get an eye into it's soul, so here goes Building on word of mouth buzz created by a handful of Eps and some remarkably strong singles, The 1975 are the next hot indie band to come straight outta Manchester. Their sound is hard to pin down exactly, taking in a mixture of synths, guitars that are angular yet never oppressively a slightly seedy, swaggering rock and roll feel familiar to fans of Oasis or The Arctic Monkeys. Despite their name being The 1975, this band is definitely one who worship the 80’s, leaning on both the sophisticated pop rock that charted in those days but with an experimental side. The most obvious comparison point for this band is Duran Duran, both sonically and in their shared desire to mix accessible pop rock with a sophisticated, artsy touch, or even Simple Minds, the band who did The Breakfast Club’s closing song So what am I to make of this? Does it live up to the hype? Well first of all,

Forgot my password, got caught up in a number of other things during that period of time known as sixth year and well, I kinda want to take this whole writing thing a bit more seriously now so I've made this page just to publish all the little things floating about my head. Got a lot of built up material, a better internet connection and a bit more motivation. I love music, film, tv, life, human rights, politics, human experience and perspectives on those experiences, hoping this'll help me improve my own writing and expression, that people will actually, y'know, look at this and maybe engage with it somehow. That's basically it really.