Reviews"'Give Yourself a Try' is noisy and sparkling, not only stealing Joy Division’s 'Disorder' riff but exposing its dark film to sunlight.", "Dance pop is absolutely one of their strengths. 'Give Yourself a Try' has a fabulous ball of a beat that bounces between your ears, with Matty Healy’s nasally vocals painting an melancholic picture of a misspent adulthood reminiscent of MGMT’s 'Time To Pretend.'", "Anchored by the best set of singles in the band’s catalog, which is saying something. The buzzy pep talk 'Give Yourself a Try' feels like hugging an electric fence...", "The 1975 are a thrillingly unreasonable band for unreasonable times. Healy is their generational mouthpiece -- a guy who’s never met a contradiction he couldn’t fully inhabit, to arresting effect.", 5 stars out of 5 -- "On the one hand it is a personal album about Matty’s experience, but it’s also an album about love in all its forms, love being the thread that links its genre-hopping tracks.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A sprawling, thoughtful LP that grapples with the big issues of our time in cheeky and mournful ways...", "It’s romantic, existential, frantic, and disorganised, and that ultimately strange mix of tones, genres, and production all adds into a singular esthetic."
Additional InformationThe Manchester group's third album is an ambitious, stylistically varied production as engaging as it is frustrating.