Matty Healy Discusses Releasing New The 1975 Album In Quarantine

After a series of delays, The 1975 is gearing up to release Notes on a Conditional Form next week, and strangely enough the timing couldn't be better. Frontman Matty Healy recently chatted with Billboard about why dropping an album during quarantine excites him a little.

"I like the idea that it’s kind of solidified my desire to only really have longform expressions," he explained. "Like, even over the past year, my social media or my presence outside of my records — which is not really that much, because it’s all aligned with my records — my presence outside my records has become a lot more like about [either] information, or like, a joke. Outside of that, opinions are kind of left for my records, or conversations in longform."

"I don’t want to do anything self-interested, because I’m not that self-interested anymore," he added.

Notes on a Conditional Form is slated for a May 22 release. The opus features 22 tracks, and the band has given us a taste by sharing seven tracks before it comes out: "Guys," "If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know),”“Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America,”“The Birthday Party,”“Me & You Together Song,”“Frail State of Mind,” and “People.”

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