Have given the album multiple listens now.
I really wanted to like it, the first two albums got played a lot in 2022 and I want him to do well, BUT…..
It just goes nowhere.
Aside from the title track, there’s no big feel good, singalong moments.
There’s no Getting Started, Seventeen Going Under or Get You Down.
If he did ever headline, there’s not much here that would really add to or improve the 2022 sub set.
All just a bit nothingy.
Just a single anecdote but one of my fave memories from all the Reading festivals I've gone to.
We were in the front pit in 2022 waiting for the 1975 to come on. There was an American couple we chatted to, they said they had booked the trip just to see RATM and had never listened to the 1975. Said to them you gonna love this. Their faces were like 😮 😮 as the band came on and one song in they were pushing forward to get closer to the stage. Rarely seen such an immediate 'dunno who they are but they're great' reaction 😄