One of my favourite moments on the album comes in the form of I Like America & America Likes Me, a track where Matty pays homage sonically to mumble rap (which is a genre he calls “the sound of America right now”). It’s simplistic and that’s all it needs to be. I like that Matty doesn’t oversell this song. It’s about not really knowing what you want and feeling guilt over it, because the other person is clearly in love.

Thank you Kanye, very cool!”īe My Mistake is a gorgeous acoustic-guitar ballad about testing the waters in a relationship when you’re young. Lyrically it’s my favourite from ABIIOR, as Healy sort of lays out a social commentary on everything that happened in 2018 that has made people ask if we’re in a simulation: “I moved on her like a bitch, excited to be indicted. It’s anthemic and stadium-ready, impossible not to move to the abrasively loud kick drum that carries the song. Love It If We Made It is a brutally honest banger for the times. It’s like having a conversation with a robot in a club in the year 3018. Then, the second half kicks in, with punchy and synthetic sounds flying at you from everywhere. How To Draw / Petrichor is a beautiful ambient electro piece that sounds almost Bon Iver-ish in the first half, with heavily distorted autotuned vocals that almost make it difficult to hear what Matty Healy is singing. I understood the placement of the track in the tracklist, it reminded me of how the bombastic hit Love Me followed the intro last time around. Give Yourself a Try began right after the vocoder-infused opening track that has introduced every album of theirs so far. How would they entice me when I’ve only been a fan of a couple of the singles so far?įirstly, I need to make it clear that the singles make a lot more sense and sound so much better in context with the album as a whole. So when it came to listening to ABIIOR, I had a natural curiosity.

However, the ‘is the internet good or bad?’ concept of the album as a whole clicked with me and will equally resonate with Millennials today. Their previous project I Like it When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It was one of my favourites of 2016, and so when I heard the lead single here, Give Yourself a Try, I wasn’t particularly drawn in. Since they began dropping singles for A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships back in June, I can’t say I was excited for this new album.

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