The 1975’s ‘Notes on a Conditional Form’: Album Review
The first thing to know about “Notes on a Conditional Form,” the fourth album by the British band the 1975, is that it’s 22 songs long. The second thing is that none of these songs sound much like one another. It’s the ultimate contemporary example of how the Beatles’ White Album has become a kind of shorthand for young rock bands that realize actually sounding like a rock band is the uncoolest possible move in 2020 — but sounding like a dozen different bands?
