Being Funny in a Foreign Language is the sound of the 1975 no longer selling their own myth. They sound relieved. After a decade of being a self-referential, pop-tinged rock band – frontman ...

Perhaps in focusing inwards, on an attempt to sound simply like a band in a studio - putting aside whether that has been achieved or not - Being Funny in a Foreign Language sees The 1975 lose touch ...

On the band’s fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, the band have tightened things up; it starts with Healy’s songwriting, his most contradictory and intriguing yet, frequently ...

The band released their fifth album, “Being Funny in a Foreign Language,” on Oct. 14, and though it may not be their most musically powerful body of work, the project stays true to the group ...

The 1975 are champions of a particular niche of the internet. With quotable lyrics and dreamy synths, the four-man band provides the perfect soundtrack to an indie aesthetic characterized by angst and ...

In 'Being Funny in a Foreign Language,' the 1975 trades the last two albums' sprawl for restraint, but there's a wonderful flamboyance that remains at the intimate core.

Matty Healy taps Jack Antonoff to help produce a concise, meaningful, pop-focused album about love. It’s cliche, it’s obvious, it’s slyly profound—it’s the 1975.

When pressing play on Being Funny in a Foreign Language I couldn’t help but be struck by an overwhelming sense of deja-vu, not as you first assume by the group's penchant for opening their album ...

The paradox of Being Funny In A Foreign Language is that it’s both the most consistent 1975 album and the least significant. There are no misses here, but there are also no smash hits.

Last month, British pop rock band the 1975 announced that their new album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, will be released on Oct. 14.So far, the band has shared the tracklisting and its first ...