The 1975's Liberating New Song Dares You To 'Give Yourself A Try'

The 1975's last album was called I Like It As soon as you Sleep, for You Are So Pretty Nevertheless So Unaware of It and dabbled in several genres although largely stuck to a big, glazed, impossibly wiggly sound reminiscent of the '80s (despite the musical group name). Right now, they're back — and so they sound prepared to like the future again.


On Thursday (May 31), over a shrieking riff and skittering drum beat that somehow sound great with each other, the group's caffeinated new tune "Give Yourself a Try" unfurls over three minutes and 18 seconds of pure empowerment. Singer Matty Healy assumes the role of Wizened Old Millennial, supplying some opinions about how to live a little bit easier. Soon considering that, he's been through some shit.





Not to play Wizened Old Millennial myself, although I'd call this song self care because of how soothingly it synthesizes generational problems often reduced to overblown bellyaches by folks not affected. The bridge especially showcases Healy's penchant for penning soul-connecting hints that sound like Tumblr pulls.

'And what would you mention to your younger self?'

Growing a beard's quite hard

And whiskey never begins to taste nice

And you'll make a lot of cash, and it's funny

'Cause you'll move somewhere sunny and get addicted to drugs

And spend obscene amounts on fucking seeds and beans online

"Give Yourself a Try" (a good sentiment, by the way) is our first taste of a new album with the very 21st-century title A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, due out in October. Pitchfork points out that a follow-up called Notes on a Conditional Form is being offered for May 2019 as well.


Listen to "Give Yourself a Try" above, then below, watch the mini-doc MTV News made with the musical group shortly immediately after their second LP dropped in 2016. And then, you know, give yourself a try already.