At a recent concert in Birmingham, Matty Healy played a song with lyrics about the band’s upcoming hiatus.
Last year, The 1975 announced they would be taking an indefinite hiatus following their Still…At Their Very Best tour, which was scheduled to end on March 24. With just over a month of shows remaining, frontman Matty Healy continued to reassure fans that their hiatus would not turn into a split. At a recent concert in Birmingham, he previewed a few seconds of the music the band is working on for their next album, which reflects the reason for the break.
“ We are working on a new album at the moment. I just need to stop for a minute”Healy told the audience, acknowledging that “ everyone is a little afraid that we will be gone for eternity “. Stepping away from the piano, he played a song from a voice note from his phone into his microphone, then recited some of the lyrics: ” I take a minute when I think that I won’t die from stopping. »
“ That’s really what I’ve been feeling for a long timehe explained. We really appreciate you and thank you very much. We’re going to go out and hopefully make a good new album for you. I don’t know what to do in the meantime, really. »
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During their previous breaks between tours, the 1975 rested, then inevitably returned to the studio to create more music. They took three years between touring their 2013 self-titled debut album and their 2016 album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It. The break following this tour was shorter, the tour Music for Cars starting in 2018 to support A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships – and later Notes on a Conditional Form – and continuing until March 2020, when the pandemic brought about its premature end.
The 1975’s fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Languagewas released in October 2022. The band performed 93 concerts in support of the album during the At Their Very Best tour, then returned for 33 concerts in North America and 27 in Europe during the Still…At Their Very tour Best.
Last year he told an audience in San Jose: “ I didn’t want to scare the most die-hard fans by insinuating that we were breaking up or anything like that. This is not the case. Don’t worry about that… There just needs to be a very firm end point at the end of Still… At Their Very Best. Because I still know what I’m doing, but part of me doesn’t know anymore. »
