The 1975 frontman Matty Healy has told fans that they can be expecting a new album, as well as sharing news of their Drive Like I Do project, despite having just released the band’s fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form, last week. As he told NME in a recent interview, Healy feels the band are obligated to keep up with the new and unprecedented circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic, by producing fresh material.
As he said, The 1975 were under no compulsion to make “another statement” after their newly released album, because “it felt like that was the statement for the world that we lived in at that time – and then the world changed so immediately it was like, well, that’s great, but that’s like about 8BC.”
Healy proceeds to announce 2020 is “year zero AC now, it’s a different world. And it already feels different. It already feels like NoaCF is something from the past. Yeah, so that’s what we do. We kind of express ourselves through words. So it’ll just happen.”
More abstractly, the singer had suggested that he and drummer George Daniel would each produce a new record of their own, “a solo album from each of us,” proposing in his recent interview that this “will possibly still happen as well.” Meanwhile. promoting their single “The 1975” from the new album in a tweet posted yesterday (May 27th) on the band’s official Twitter account, @the1975, the band’s new activity has already amassed 3,400 likes and has been retweeted almost 600 times.
// T H E 1 9 7 5 V I D E O – O U T N O W // L O V E https://t.co/Vh2w15GSkP
— The 1975 (@the1975) May 27, 2020
Projecting further into the future, he also spoke of The 1975’s upcoming “Drive Like I Do” project, alluding to the band’s original name before settling on the current title by which they are so widely known today. According to NME, Healy had confirmed in 2017 that a debut album from this side-project would make an appearance “in the coming years,” clarifying the distinction between The 1975 and this external commitment.
“I’m getting the old stuff remastered,” he says, “and I’m basically going to put out the first album, the album that never was released. And then we’ll follow that up with a new album.“
