Last year, The 1975 announced plans to take an indefinite hiatus following the conclusion of their Still… At Their Very Best tour, which was scheduled to end on March 24. With just over a month of shows to go, frontman Matty Healy has continued to reassure fans the hiatus will turn into something more permanent. At a recent gig in Birmingham, he previewed a few seconds of music the band has been working on for their next album, which aptly reflects the reason for the hiatus.
“We're working on a new record now. I just have to stop for a minute,” Healy told the audience, acknowledging that “everyone's afraid we're going to be gone for many years.” Walking away from the piano, he played a song from a voice note on his phone into his microphone, then recited one of the lyrics: “I take a minute when I think I won't die from stopping.”
“I really felt that way for a long time,” he explained. “We appreciate you very much and thank you very much. We're going to go and hopefully make you a good new album. I just don't know what to do in the meantime, really.”
During previous breaks between tours, 1975 spent their time resting and then inevitably returning to the studio to create more music. It took three years between touring for their 2013 self-titled debut album and their 2016 album I like it when you sleep, because you are so beautiful but so oblivious. The break following that tour was shorter, with the Music for Cars tour kicking off in 2018 in support of A brief survey of online relationships – and later Notes on a conditional form — and will last until March 2020, when the pandemic brought it to an early end.
1975's fifth studio album, Being funny in a foreign language, released in October 2022. They played 93 shows supporting the record on the Atir Very Best tour and then returned for another 33 shows in North America and 27 in Europe on the Still… Atir Very Best tour. Their time on the road overlaps with a number of controversial moments for Healy, who has used the stage as a platform to explain himself to an audience he seems to feel understands him to a greater degree than the general public. .
Last year, he told an audience in San Jose, “I didn't want to scare any die-hard fans by implying that we're breaking up or anything like that. This is not happening. Don't worry about it… It just needs to become a very solid, full stop at the end of Still… At Their Best. Because I still know what I'm doing, but part of me doesn't.”
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