The Daily Spin, August 5
The 1975 | I Like It When You Sleep...
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite song from each album right here.
Album: I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (2016)
Artist: The 1975
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I like it when you sleep is the sophomore album from British indie pop sensation the 1975, a record that, over its seven years of life, has meant a lot of different things to me in a variety of situations, from the pleasantly enamored ‘This Must Be My Dream’ and ‘Love Me’ to the quieter and more introspective ‘Somebody Else’ and ‘A Change of Heart’.
Pound for pound, I’m not sure there are many albums more consistent with floors this high - my collection of tens aside, this album might be next up in that it was genuinely difficult to pick out a song that felt like it could be considered a ‘miss’ - and even then, the bottom few tracks are closer to 8 than anything below it. This is somewhat tempered by a lack of truly outstanding pieces from the group, but those few highs are unbelievable.
Much like yesterday’s album, it has a bit of a length issue, running just shy of an hour and fifteen minutes - which, as much as I love it, the album does tend to slide into a bit of one-note flavor, the only notable ding I can really give it.
This is, to me, the 1975’s most identifiable and iconic work - this is them at the absolute top of their game, hitting all their strides at one time and putting it into a love letter to love, to heartbreak, to the internal and external, to the confusing and crystalline all together, an ode to everything and nothing all at once, a spectacle of tightly wound chaos, harnessed to make beauty.
Rating: 9.3/10
Best Tracks: Somebody Else; A Change of Heart; The Ballad Of Me And My Brain
Worst Tracks: Loving Someone