The 1975 returns "At Their Very Best" with a new song and tour announcement
"Happiness" is out now, and the North American leg of the At Their Very Best tour will kick off this fall
The 1975 is back, and its members have declared themselves “At Their Very Best” this time. The British rock group returned yesterday with a variety of announcements, including a new single, “Happiness,” and a large-scale North American tour dubbed the At Their Very Best Tour.
“Happiness” is the second single from The 1975's upcoming LP Being Funny In A Foreign Language, following the July release of “Part Of The Band.” The track comes complete with a music video directed by Samuel Bradley. The track sees the group return to the melt-in-your-mouth synth pop they came up on, to great success. The group experimented with more ambient production and fluid track formats on its last album, 2020's Notes On A Conditional Form.
“We just wanted this record to be really like a captured moment and not be too constructed and even produced that much… We did it in like a day or so,” the 1975's frontman Matty Healy shares of “Happiness” in a recent interview with Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe. “And it’s us having fun. And I think that there’s this real desire in art to see something remarkable with as little technology as possible”
Being Funny In A Foreign Language received production from pop’s literal jack of all trades, Jack Antonoff. The juggernaut producer and Bleachers frontman has had a hand in recent albums from Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Lorde, Clairo, and more. Healy also told Lowe that The 1975's work with Antonoff began as a friendship between Healy and Antonoff based on similar tastes, which ultimately grew into a curiosity about what they could create together.
“I love Jack’s work, and those Lana [Del Rey] records, in particular, like, some of my favorite stuff. So we were talking about that. We became friends talking about production and what I was doing and what he was wanting to do and what I was wanting to do,” Healy explains. “And then I kind of just thought, ‘Well, this is like a really nice new energy.’”
Being Funny In A Foreign Language is due out October 14 via Dirty Hit. For a full list of The 1975's North American tour dates, see below.
The 1975 At Their Very Best Tour Dates:
11/03—Uncasville, CT—Mohegan Arena
11/04—Boston, MA—MGM Music Hall at Fenway
11/07—New York, NY—Madison Square Garden
11/09—Camden, NJ—Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
11/10—Washington, D.C.—The Anthem
11/12—Atlanta, GA—State Farm Arena
11/13—Nashville, TN—Nashville Municipal Auditorium
11/15—Grand Prairie, TX—Texas Trust CU Theatre
11/16—Houston, TX—713 Music Hall
11/17—Austin, TX—Moody Center
11/20—Mexico City, Mexico—Corona Capital Festival
11/23—Phoenix, AZ—Arizona Financial Theatre
11/25—Las Vegas, NV—The Theater at Virgin Hotels
11/26—San Diego, CA—Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
11/28—Los Angeles, CA—Kia Forum
11/29—San Francisco, CA—Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
12/01—Portland, OR—Moda Center
12/02—Seattle, WA—WAMU Theater
12/08—Independence, MO—Cable Dahmer Arena
12/10—Milwaukee, WI—The Eagles Ballroom
12/12—Toronto, Ontario—Scotiabank Arena
12/16—Newport, KY—PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation
12/17—Pittsburgh, PA—UPMC Events Center