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Following the Top Twenty success of their breakthrough single 'Chocolate', Mancehster indie-pop quartet The 1975 have revealed their follow-up release, 'The City'. Listen to the track below.
Originally online in 2012, a new version of the band's early release has been re-worked to follow the biggest song of the band's career to date, and the band's frontman Matty Healy reveals why the track was chosen to follow 'Chocolate' after the band's rapid rise to success this year.
"We genuinely did not expect our popularity to accelerate in the way that it did after we released 'Sex and 'Chocolate' - so we thought it was very important that we took this early opportunity to expose as many people as possible to music that we feel defines us," Healy tells Gigwise. "'The City' was the first piece of music that anybody could have ever heard by The 1975, so it's very important to us. I think that there's a lot to be said about us in that song both sonically, musically and personally."
Listen to 'The City' below
Following up your first chart success is a big ask for any band, but despite having tasted mainstream radio support and a high chart placing with 'Chocolate', Healy reveals that the band have aspirations for their music that does not revolve around sales and radio-play.
"I get more excited about the idea of our music bleeding into everyday moments; moments of excitement or mundanity, I don't really care," he continues. "The fact that one of our songs may provide a soundtrack to an argument in a car in Birmingham; or the first touch of an 'accidentally-on-purpose' hand between two kids in Kingston you know? That's what I get proper excited about.
"Music is at it's best when it provides a soundtrack to your memories. Or even a soundtrack to the present. It's the way that music can totally heighten an experience that you have; or that you share with another person or loads of people. I love that. "I was told by a couple that they fell in love to the Sex EP, thats the kind of success that has no measure."
