The 1975 - Love Me

“We didn’t necessarily get in a room and put on leather trousers,” claimed The 1975 frontman Matt Healy, speaking to Annie Mac before unveiling new single ‘Love Me’. But Healy and co.’s comeback statement pictures this exact scene - four guys getting engrossed in the hi-glam, neo Hollywood life and loving every second. A Talking Heads and Bowie-channelling funk force, ‘Love Me’ is 2015’s answer to previous decades’ shine and glitz obsessions.

Instead of bathing in nostalgia or getting absorbed in the past, ‘Love Me’ intends to shine a light on today’s trigger-happy culture. “It’s about narcissism,” Healy told Mac, and he spends the opening verse moaning about how “I’m just with my friends online, and there’s things we’d like to change.” Not exactly cutting social commentary, but it’s hard to get worked up on the ins and outs of ‘Love Me’ when it’s so determinedly ridiculous. Less second guesses, more leather trousers - this is bombast on a maddening level.