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Since their self-titled debut album, the band has never been one to wade in the shallow end of its most manifest inspiration: bouncy, ‘80s synthpop and rock. I’ll tell you you’re right when you’re wrong After giving the rendition of legendary R&B act Sade’s “ By Your Side” a single listen, the exasperating wait for the 1975 to release a real cover is affirmably negligible, mostly because a new sonic disparity accompanies this release. And that absence is acceptable as of last month, when the 1975 chose to partner with UK nonprofit War Child to release a charity single that’s also their first studio rework unassociated with BBC Radio 1. But as the band’s newish sophomore album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (released February 2016 via Dirty Hit/ Interscope Records) failed to offer such reworkings in its epic of a track list, it’s safe to say that fans of the group are going to have to wait a bit longer for that theoretical, praiseworthy gem to foster under pressure. And just last year, the UK pop rock outfit returned to that same studio to record an imaginative, mid-tempo rendition of Justin Bieber’s “ Sorry,” packaged with organ-sounding synthesizers and the usual charm of their sideman John Waugh’s saxophone skills.īoth live covers, along with the numerous ones they’ve executed in between, warrant any belief that the 1975 would most likely make something acclaimable of a “proper” cover: one that’s nestled in an well-produced album or EP, mixed and mastered and ready to blast at a positively deafening volume. In 2013 they showed up to the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to perform one of the decade’s most disgustingly mawkish pop hits – aka One Direction’s debut single “ What Makes You Beautiful” – and turned it into a syrupy ballad that only frontman Matty Healy’s croon could make sound remotely meaningful. The 1975 are really good at doing covers.