To that point, I've compiled a list of everything A Brief Inquiry reminds me of. They want all the genres they grew up on. Healy wants to give the people what they want because it's also what he wants, and it's what his bandmates want.
Healy wants to embrace your methods of consumption. Radiohead is anti–the-thing-you-are-doing. (Maybe he does deep down and this is why Thom Yorke cannot be trusted.) Radiohead hates The Man. Thom Yorke is probably sitting on a mountain of "It's Not Living (If It's Not with You)"'s, but he doesn't want to be The 1975. Let me tell you something about Radiohead: Thom Yorke has done everything in his power to evade the term “pop” over the course of three decades. Before any of that echo-chamber applause, The 1975 had already made the album of the year by doing exactly what they wanted to do for 15 years predating all this. Cultural gatekeepers who once relished berating the band for the past however many years found themselves in agreement (some begrudgingly so): The 1975 are the best band on earth. The author Caitlin Moran invited Healy to her home in North London to be interviewed by her daughters as part of a cover story for the Times of London. NME-a magazine that called The 1975 “worst band in the world” four years ago-practically turned itself into a 1975 fan account in the build-up and aftermath. They scored Best New Music on Pitchfork (gaining a whole two points since their 6.5-rated sophomore album, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it).
Whether it was BBC radio takeovers or in-store signings at record stores in their hometown of Manchester, the group's four members (Healy, Adam Hann, George Daniel, and Ross MacDonald) were on a campaign war trail.
The band's entire label team at Dirty Hit, a record company run jointly with Healy, was working around the clock without sleep. Listening parties were held in cities on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. Last month, the Manchester group The 1975 put out their third album- A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, one of GQ's favorite records of the year-and it was a global event that no other band consisting of four white dudes with guitars (frontman Matt Healy's words, not mine) could dare to dream of right now.