'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' review: The 1975 are three-for-three with their experimental yet cohesive third album
As promised, The 1975 are back with the penultimate album from their 'Music For Cars' era. Titled 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships', fortunately, this time the album title is one that you can fully pronounce in a singe breath (as opposed to 2016's sophomore record 'I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It').
With their third studio album, the Cheshire pop quartet has managed to do what few bands can pull off successfully these days - a hat-trick of back-to-back hit albums, each outdoing the previous one in some way or the other.
On 'A Brief Inquiry...', The 1975's ambitions are as high as ever, as they experiment with a range of styles and genres. From groovy jazz ('Sincerity Is Scary') to ironical auto-tune pop ('I Like America & America Likes Me') to piano-centered ballads ('Inside Your Mind') to almost rap-like poetry ('Love It If We Made It') and everything in between, Matt Healy and the boys flit from one experimental style to the other through the album's 15 tracks.