Being Funny in a Foreign Language by 1975

Being Funny in a Foreign Language, the 1975's fifth album, arrived on Dirty Hit on 14 October 2022, and it's the Wilmslow band stepping out from behind the irony and letting the songs breathe. Jack Antonoff produced, and most of it was cut at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, with Electric Lady also on the credits. Matty Healy sings, Adam Hann plays guitar, Ross MacDonald plays bass and George Daniel plays drums, the same four who first played together as teenagers.

After the sprawling, genre-hopping maximalism of the records before it, this one is lean, warm and sincere, and critics hailed it as some of their strongest work. "Part of the Band" led the way, "I'm in Love with You" is a giddy, unashamed pop confection, and "Oh Caroline" and "All I Need to Hear" were among the singles that followed. It debuted at number one in the UK, topped the charts in Scotland, Ireland and Australia, and earned a Brit nomination for Album of the Year.

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