There are few bands that have had the opportunity to name an album after a song with a title that is also the band’s name. There’s Black Sabbath, The 1975 and … maybe one more. Manchester’s The 1975 sounds quite different than Birmingham’s Sabbath, and it doesn’t sound much like it’s been influenced by Manchester’s rich lineage of music artists either.
The 1975 is focused on making history in the present with the quartet’s own varietal of indie electropunk emocore, or whatever combination of adjectives music reviewers try to describe it with. Drummer George Daniel, guitarist Adam Hann and bassist Ross MacDonald joined up with frontman Matty Healy as youths and matured musically together, developing a sound on early EPs that can only result from a band of brothers.
By the time 2013’s The 1975 was released, The 1975 was poised for superstardom. Its members enjoyed titling The 1975’s lead track “The 1975” so much they went on to title the lead track of their next three albums “The 1975” as well. Being Funny in a Foreign Language, released just last month, debuted at No. 1 in the U.K. and Australia, and broke the U.S. Top 10, setting the stage for celebration at the band’s show in Las Vegas.
Opening act Blackstarkids will get the party started right with the trio’s exuberant, genre-bending, hip-hop-based jams.
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 10 p.m. Nov. 25, starting at $39 plus tax and fee. axs.com
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