I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It

I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
Studio album by The 1975
Released 26 February 2016 (2016-02-26)
Recorded January – October 2015
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Genre
Length 73:55
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The 1975 chronology
The 1975
(2013)		 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
(2016)
Singles from I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
  1. "Love Me"
    Released: 8 October 2015[4]
  2. "UGH!"
    Released: 10 December 2015[5]
  3. "Somebody Else"
    Released: 15 February 2016
  4. "The Sound"
    Released: 19 February 2016
  5. "A Change of Heart"
    Released: 22 February 2016
  6. "She's American"
    Released: 11 November 2016

I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it is the second studio album by English rock band The 1975.[6] It was released on 26 February 2016.

In 2014, frontman Matthew Healy began releasing a series of cryptic tweets revealing lyrics from the album, and its title the following year. The band then officially announced and verified the album in September 2015, a month before "Love Me" was released as the lead single. During the course of five months, three more singles were released, with "A Change of Heart" released four days prior to its release.

Upon its release, the album received positive reviews from critics. The album was a commercial success, topping both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Background

After the release of the band's self-titled debut, in 2013, they spent 2015 mostly recording a follow-up.[7]

On 1 June, the band's accounts were deleted, which caused mass speculation from both fans and media alike that the band had broken up. On 2 June, Healy tweeted again, but revealed a cryptic and symbolic comic strip containing the message that the band had gone on hiatus. A blurred Instagram picture from Healy titled "The 1975-2" set anticipation for release.[8] The same day, the social media accounts were reinstated.[9]

The tweet by Healy was verified as the name for their sophomore album later in October 2015 with "Love Me" , a "very funky new single" released on 8 October.[9]

Style

They cited D'Angelo, Christina Aguilera, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Roberta Flack, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, Boards of Canada, Kim Carnes, Scritti Politti, and Sigur Rós as inspirations for the record's 17 tracks.[10][11] The album's sound has been described as dance-pop,[12] dance-rock,[12] indie rock,[2] jazz,[2] pop,[2][3][13][14][15] pop punk,[2] post-rock,[13] R&B[12] and soul.[2]

Promotion

Singles

On 8 October 2015, The 1975 released "Love Me" as a single from the album after announcement and was first played on BBC.[4]

On 10 December, they first played "UGH!", the second single from the album, on Apple Music's Beats 1.[5]

"The Sound" was premiered on Radio 1 on 14 January 2016,[16] and was released as a radio single on 19 February.[17] The music video premiered 6 days after.[18]

"Somebody Else" debuted on Beats 1 with Zane Lowe on 15 February, and released on iTunes and Spotify on 16 February. The music video debuted on 7 July.[19]

The next single, "A Change of Heart"[20] debuted on BBC Radio 1 with Annie Mac on 22 February.

"She's American" will be released on 11 November 2016.[21]

Tour

A tour for the album began on 9 November 2015 in Liverpool. The band played the United Kingdom in November and the United States in December, Asia and Oceania in January 2016, Europe in March to April, and the US from April to May. They are scheduled to play nine festivals over the summer, including Firefly Music Festival in June and the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August.[22]

On 25 July the band announced a North American Tour for Fall, beginning on 1 and 2 October at The Meadows Music & Arts Festival, and then playing three dates in Mexico, the first ever in the country.[23]

Artwork

The album's artwork and design was created by Samuel Burgess-Johnson and photographed by David Drake.

For each song on the album, a pink neon sign was created and put against various locations to create nostalgia for the song,[24] but to also detail the thematic material and complexity of each song through the photo's atmosphere. Burgess-Johnson worked closely with Healy to help with the placement.[25]

Release

The album was released on 26 February 2016.[26] The US Target edition of the album includes two bonus tracks: a demo of "A Change of Heart" and the song "How to Draw".[27]

Commercial performance

The album became the group's second number one in the United Kingdom, debuting atop the UK Albums Chart, with combined sales of over 58,000.[28] It became the group's first number one on the US Billboard 200, with 98,000 pure album sales in its debut week,[29] while also setting the record for longest title of a Billboard number-one album with 71 characters.[30] The next week, it fell to #26, tying with 2011's Mission Bell by Amos Lee for the 3rd largest drop from #1 as of December 2016.[31] It also debuted at number one in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.[32][33][34]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[35]
The A.V. ClubB[36]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[37]
The Guardian[38]
NME4/5[13]
Pitchfork Media6.5/10[39]
Q[40]
Rolling Stone[12]
Slant Magazine[14]
Spin8/10[15]

The record received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, the album has an average score of 75 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 24 reviews.[41] Writing for Exclaim!, Ian Gormely noted that the band's ambition was perhaps their sole stumbling block, though pursuing all musical avenues makes the result "overstuffed, awkwardly titled and frequently brilliant."[42] In Drowned in Sound's review of the album, they praised the album's eclecticism and lyricism, concluding that "What they’ve made is a bold body of work that sounds effortless and odd and sophisticated. What they do next is likely to be stadium-filling and bonkers and brilliant, but it matters little when what they're doing now is so sensational."[43]

NME, who had previously been critical of the band, also praised the album for its scope and ambition, writing that "Any record that burrows as deep into your psyche as ‘I Like It…’ should be considered essential. It’s hugely clever and wryly funny, too."[13] Although music journalist Alexis Petridis noted that parts of the album were over-ambitious, he went on to claim that "[i]ncredibly, though, most of the time Healy gets away with it. That’s sometimes because his observations are sharp – as a skewering of celebrity #squad culture, “you look famous, let’s be friends / And portray we possess something important / And do the things we like” is pretty acute – but more usually because they come loaded with witty self-awareness and deprecation: the endless depictions of vacuous, coke-numbed girls he has met would get wearying were it not for the fact that he keeps turning the lyrical crosshair on himself."[38] In a more mixed review, Rolling Stone criticised tracks like 'Lostmyhead' and 'Please Be Naked' for being 'boring-melty' but praised songs such as 'Somebody Else', 'Loving Someone' and 'Love Me'.[12]

Accolades

Publication Rank List
NME 1 NME's Albums of the Year 2016[44]
The Guardian 24 Best Albums of 2016[45]
The Skinny 21 Top 50 Albums of 2016[46]
Stereogum 21 The 50 Best Albums of 2016[47]
The Maneater 1 Top 10 Alternative Albums of 2016 [48]
Rolling Stone 18 Top 50 Albums of 2016[49]

Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Hann, George Daniel, Matthew Healy and Ross MacDonald. 

No. Title Length
1. "The 1975"   1:23
2. "Love Me"   3:42
3. "UGH!"   3:00
4. "A Change of Heart"   4:43
5. "She's American"   4:30
6. "If I Believe You"   6:20
7. "Please Be Naked"   4:25
8. "Lostmyhead"   5:19
9. "The Ballad of Me and My Brain"   2:51
10. "Somebody Else"   5:47
11. "Loving Someone"   4:20
12. "I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It"   6:26
13. "The Sound"   4:08
14. "This Must Be My Dream"   4:12
15. "Paris"   4:53
16. "Nana"   3:58
17. "She Lays Down"   3:58
Total length:
 73:55

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[1]

The 1975
  • George Daniel – backing vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, programming, production, synthesizers
  • Adam Hann – guitar
  • Matthew Healy – vocals, guitar, keyboards, piano, production, writing, direction
  • Ross MacDonald – bass guitar, upright bass, background vocals
Additional musicians
  • John Waugh – saxophone (tracks 5 and 14)
  • Jamie Squire – synthesizer (track 13)
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – violin, viola, cello, string arrangement (track 8)
  • Roy Hargrove – flugelhorn (track 6)
  • Jason McGee – conducting (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Cassandra Grigsby-Chism – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Nicole King-Morgan – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Crystal Lewis – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Crystal Butler – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Sharetta Morgan-Harmon – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Quishima Dixon – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Carisa Moore – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Fallynn Oliver – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Edward Lawson – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Marquee Perkins – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • James Connor – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Vernon Burris – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Derrick Evans – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Anika Weibe – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
  • Monique Sullivan – choir vocals (tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14)
Technical personnel
Artwork
  • Samuel Burgess-Johnson – art direction, design, photography
  • David Drake – photography
  • Edward Emberson – inlay photography

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[32] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[50] 10
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[51] 14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[52] 62
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[34] 1
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[53] 30
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[54] 31
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[55] 19
French Albums (SNEP)[56] 87
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[57] 28
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[58] 39
Irish Albums (IRMA)[59] 3
Italian Albums (FIMI)[60] 21
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[61] 28
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[33] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[62] 9
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[63] 15
Scottish Albums (OCC)[64] 1
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[65] 23
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[66] 15
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[67] 19
UK Albums (OCC)[68] 1
US Billboard 200[69] 1

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[70] Gold 100,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

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