- chamber pop, new wave, pop rock, rock
- 40 min
- 10 tracks
- Dirty Hit
Being Funny in a Foreign Language is the fifth studio album by English band the 1975. It was released on 14 October 2022 by Dirty Hit. The album was recorded primarily at Real World Studios in Wiltshire. The band released the lead single "Part of the Band" on 7 July 2022, which was followed by the subsequent singles "Happiness", "I'm in Love with You", "All I Need to Hear", "About You", "Oh Caroline", and "Looking for Somebody ".
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Spare, contemporary, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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Metacritic 82/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 7.6/10
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- Clash8/10
- Dork5/5 ★
- Evening Standard4/5 ★
- Gigwise10/10
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- NME4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1The 19754:11
- 2Happiness5:04
- 3Looking for Somebody (to Love)2:59
- 4Part of the Band4:20
- 5Oh Caroline3:33
- 6I’m in Love With You4:23
- 7All I Need to Hear3:30
- 8Wintering2:45
- 9About You5:26
- 10When We Are Together3:37
10 tracks, 40 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The 1975
- Label
- Dirty Hit
- Released
- October 14, 2022
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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