Emo era is long behind us, but the influence of this genre is still alive and well. The 1975 is the latest band to embrace it according to their frontman Matty Healy, who revealed their next record will be “kind of emo”.
Healy first dropped hints about emo influence on their sound during Reddit AMA he did last month and discussed it again while speaking to US radio station ALT 949 at Coachella.
“I’m an active emo man, I suppose I’d call myself. I think that bands when they get to a stage that maybe we’re in they wanna kind of graduate into being like a massive rock band, whereas we wanna graduate like into being a small emo band if you know what I mean,” explained Healy.
The 1975’s frontman also discussed the band’s fourth studio album Notes on a Conditional Form, which is scheduled for release this year. The release date is still a mystery, and Healy said they don’t want to force anything.
“I haven’t figured it out, but I don’t think that we need to figure it out. And I don’t think our fans or people in this world need that kind of stuff figured out. We’ll just do it when it feels right. But there will be a build up to it like there always is,” concluded Healey.
