Manchester's most restless band: five albums, five worlds, and a sixth taking shape in the dark.
Between eras, and closer to the next one than ever. After winding down the marathon At Their Very Best / Still… At Their Very Best touring cycle and declaring an "indefinite hiatus" from live shows, the band resurfaced exactly once in 2025: a Pyramid Stage headline at Glastonbury that ended with a single mysterious word — DOGS. Matty Healy has since confirmed that's an album title, and that the band recorded two albums' worth of material. As of this page's last review, no release date and no tour dates have been officially announced — claims of a 2026 tour circulating on aggregator sites remain unsourced. Full story: everything we know about DOGS →
Matty Healy, on camera at a Gateshead College event, confirms DOGS is the title of the next album, and says the band "made two." This remains the latest development verified by primary sources or established press. Our full report →
Source: Rolling Stone; fan video via TikTokFour school friends from Cheshire who spent a decade as an unsigned band with a rotating name, then became one of the most restlessly shape-shifting acts of their generation, swerving from glossy pop to ambient noise to Bacharach-style balladry, often inside a single record. Each album is less a release than a fully-built world: its own palette, typography, stage design, and lore.
They are also, by design, a band about being a band: self-aware, extremely online, and led by a frontman who treats interviews as performance art. That makes them unusually rewarding to follow closely, and unusually easy to misreport. This page tracks what is actually true.
| Release | Year | Type | The era, in one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 1975 | 2013 | Studio | Black & white neon — the self-titled blueprint: sex, chocolate, and cinematic ambition. |
| I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It | 2016 | Studio | The pink era — maximalist 80s pop-funk with ambient interludes and total confidence. |
| A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships | 2018 | Studio | The internet album — anxiety, autotune, Siri monologues, and a generation's diagnosis. |
| Notes on a Conditional Form | 2020 | Studio | The sprawl — 22 tracks of garage, orchestral swells, punk outbursts, and no rules at all. |
| Being Funny in a Foreign Language | 2022 | Studio | The concise one — eleven songs, warm and direct, about being in love and being sincere. |
| Still… At Their Very Best — Live from the AO Arena | 2025 | Live | The touring era, sealed on tape: the final form of the show that closed the first five worlds. |
| DOGS Reported | TBA | Studio | The next era — title confirmed by Healy; contents, date, and shape still in the dark. |
Early years also produced four EPs (Facedown, Sex, Music for Cars, IV, 2012–13) that seeded the debut.
Monochrome neon and rectangle iconography. A decade of unsigned woodshedding compresses into a debut that plants every flag at once: pop hooks, cinematic interludes, and the self-mythology that never left.
Defining track · SexThe rectangle turns pink. Maximalist 80s funk-pop sits beside ambient instrumentals twice its length, and the band stops apologizing for wanting to be enormous.
Defining track · Somebody ElseThe internet album — sincerity and irony in the same breath, a Siri-narrated fable at its center, and the era that made critics stop hedging. Widely their most acclaimed record.
Defining track · Love It If We Made ItThe sprawl: 22 tracks released into a pandemic, opening with a Greta Thunberg address and detouring through UK garage, orchestral suites, and punk. Divisive by design; the fan-favorite deep-cut motherlode.
Defining track · If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)The contraction — eleven songs, live-room warmth, and the At Their Very Best show whose set-within-a-set staging became the era's real text. Closed by a Glastonbury headline and one word on a screen.
Defining track · About YouAnalysis An editorial selection: our call on the fastest route to understanding the band, not a chart.
It wasn't really a debut — it was a decade of demos tracked in full, then cut into four EPs. How the record actually got made, in the band's own words.
GD.002A decade of noir went Technicolor overnight. How a laptop, a gospel choir, and a refusal to care built a double No. 1.
GD.003No outside producer, a scrapped double album, and a frontman getting clean mid-session — the record that changed how they were taken seriously.
GD.00422 tracks, a tour bus turned studio, and a Greta Thunberg monologue — the biggest, most divisive record of their career.
GD.005Burned out, they brought in Jack Antonoff, moved into Peter Gabriel's studio, and made themselves play live in a room again.
CB.001The drummer and producer who's quietly built the sound underneath every 1975 record — in his own words.
New to the band? Put on Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022). Eleven songs, no detours, every strength on display. If it lands, you'll want the bigger worlds behind it.
No. The band declared an "indefinite hiatus" from touring after the At Their Very Best cycle, and explicitly not a breakup. They headlined Glastonbury in June 2025 and have two albums' worth of new material recorded, per Matty Healy's own on-camera comments.
No release date has been officially announced. The title was confirmed by Healy in December 2025; the date was not. A November 2026 window circulates among fan accounts. We trace and rate that claim in the Rumor Mill, where it currently stands at: plausible, unverified.
Genuinely undecided, by Healy's own account: "It might be one, it might be two… but yeah, we've made two albums." A second reported title, GHEMB, has appeared in press previews but sits in our "reported" column until it's on an actual tracklist.
No tour dates are currently announced or listed on major listings services. Some low-quality aggregator sites claim a 2026 tour without sources or dates; we don't treat those as reporting. When real dates exist, they'll be here and in the Wire.
Our take: Being Funny in a Foreign Language, the shortest path to everything they do well. The Start Here module above maps the other routes in.
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