DH00278 shows how they’ve blown up that ideal and refashioned it for the 2010s, whether by bringing in a choir for the impish “The Sound” (sample lyric: “You’re so conceited, I said ‘I love you’/What does it matter if I lie to you?”) or hyper-charging an open-road anthem with overdriven guitars and bashed-out beats (the glorious “Milk”). On paper, the 1975 operate in the rock band mold-they have a guitar-vox-bass-drums core, are fronted by a larger-than-life persona in Healy, and are more than willing to super-size their sound with brass or even a choir.
A document of a single, two-hour show in one place, from the opening cheers through the big singles and into the long stretches of mood music-a recollection that isn’t done until the sounds of the crowd exiting as “Jungle Boogie” wafts in the background fade out-might be passé, but it does at least reveal which acts have built up stamina and magnetism. Are they necessary in the age of setlist.fm and YouTube and shortened festival sets, and don’t they mostly benefit rock acts, who seem to be out of fashion in America right now? Sure they are, if only because they provide a historical record of those bands who can keep a crowd’s attention for more than your festival-standard 45 minutes. When it succeeds, it does so because of the electrified bond between the band and its audience, which gets a jolt from the casually audacious way the group brings together glam, shoegaze, synthpop, and any other sound that might tickle its fancy-even when the 1975 fall short, their sheer nerve is worth applauding. (It was initially released as a concert film on Christmas 2016.) While it doesn’t entirely echo the thrill of being in the same EnormoDome as Matt Healy and his bandmates, at about two hours long and with 24 tracks, DH00278 serves as a broad, if flawed, introduction to the still-growing band and their potential. With a new album reportedly coming out sometime in 2018, the band close the book on the sleep era with DH00278, an audio-only capture of the 1975’s December 16, 2016, show at London’s O2 Arena, one of two they played at the UK’s biggest indoor venue.
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