I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it by The 1975
I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (stylised in sentence case) is the second studio album by English rock band the 1975, released on 26 February 2016 through Dirty Hit and Polydor. In 2014, frontman Matty Healy released a series of cryptic tweets containing lyrics from the album, revealing its title the following year. After their social accounts were deleted and reinstated with a new visual identity, the band officially confirmed the album in September 2015, a month before "Love Me" was released as the lead single. Over the course of five months, "Ugh!", "Somebody Else" and "The Sound" were released as singles, with "A Change of Heart" released four days prior to release. "She's American" and "Loving Someone" were later released in November 2016 and February 2017 as the final singles. Upon its release, the album received positive reviews from critics. Several publications, including Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, listed it as one of the best albums of 2016. It was also a commercial success, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and the United States, and its box set received a nomination for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package at the 2017 Grammy Awards. NME later placed the album sixth on their list of the Best Albums of The Decade. Additionally, Stereogum, Pitchfork, and Billboard placed it 61st, 161st, and 82nd, respectively.
The 1975’s second album makes a few things crystal clear: Matt Healy belongs to the flawed and decadent bloodline of Great British frontmen, his band has evolved from indie-pop upstarts into glorious, riotously ambitious oddities and they couldn’t care less about traditional titles or running times. Here lives generous dollops of iresistible, crunchy pop (“Love Me”, “Ugh”, “The Sound”), yearning electronic balladeering (“A Change of Heart”, “If I Believe You”, “Paris”) and ambient palate cleansers (the title track and “Lostmyhead”). Bound together with red-raw emotion and wicked humour, it’s astonishingly eclectic, a hell of a lot of fun and it should also see The 1975 graduate to stadiums on their own, delightfully weird, terms.
