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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.