“All I Need To Hear” by 1975

"All I Need to Hear" arrived in September 2022 as the fourth single from Being Funny in a Foreign Language, the 1975's fifth studio album, and it's Matty Healy with the irony switched off. Taking Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years" as his model, Healy set himself a rule: no smirks, no jokes, just enough plain sincerity to make it sound as if he were covering somebody else's song. He wrote it with George Daniel and Jamie Squire, and Daniel and Jack Antonoff produced it with him.

What comes out is a slow blue-eyed soul ballad built on sombre gospel piano, with acoustic guitars, a sleepy beat, strings and wisps of pedal steel wrapped around a man still hopelessly gone on someone who has left. Several critics called it a career high.

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