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''I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It'' (stylised in
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) is the second studio album by English
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band
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, released on 26 February 2016 through
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and
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. In 2014, frontman Matty Healy released a series of cryptic tweets containing lyrics from the album, revealing its title the following year. After their social accounts were deleted and reinstated with a new visual identity, the band officially confirmed the album in September 2015, a month before " Love Me" was released as the lead single. Over the course of five months, "
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", " Somebody Else" and " The Sound" were released as singles, with " A Change of Heart" released four days prior to release. " She's American" and "
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" were later released in November 2016 and February 2017 as the final singles. Upon its release, the album received positive reviews from critics. Several publications, including ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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'', listed it as one of the best albums of 2016. It was also a commercial success, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and the United States, and its box set received a nomination for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package at the
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. ''
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'' later placed the album sixth on their list of the Best Albums of The Decade. Additionally, '' Stereogum'', ''
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'', and '' Billboard'' placed it 61st, 161st, and 82nd, respectively.


Background

After the band released their self-titled debut, in 2013, they spent 2015 mostly recording a follow-up. On 1 June, the band's Twitter accounts were deleted, which caused mass speculation from both fans and media alike that the band had broken up. On 2 June, Healy reactivated the accounts and tweeted again, but revealed a cryptic and symbolic comic strip containing the message that the band had gone on hiatus. A blurred Instagram picture from Healy titled "The 1975-2" set anticipation for release. The same day, the social media accounts were reinstated. The tweet by Healy was verified as the name for their second album later in October 2015 with "Love Me" (a "very funky new single", according to ''Spin'') released on 8 October.


Style

The band cited D'Angelo,
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, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis,
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, My Bloody Valentine's '' Loveless'', Boards of Canada,
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, Scritti Politti, and Sigur Rós as inspirations for the record's 17 tracks. The album's sound has been described as pop, new wave,
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,
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,
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and
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. It also incorporates synth-pop,
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, post-rock, dance-pop and R&B elements.


Promotion


Singles

On 8 October 2015, the 1975 released " Love Me" as a single from the album after announcement and was first played on
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. On 10 December, they first played "Ugh!", the second single from the album, on Apple Music's Beats 1. "The Sound" was premiered on Radio 1 on 14 January 2016, and was released as a radio single on 19 February. The music video premiered 6 days after. "Somebody Else" debuted on Beats 1 with Zane Lowe on 15 February, and released on iTunes and
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on 16 February. The music video debuted on 7 July. The next single, "A Change of Heart" debuted on BBC Radio 1 with Annie Mac on 22 February. A video for "She's American" was filmed but never released. "Loving Someone" was released as the seventh single.


Tour

A tour for the album began on 9 November 2015 in
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. The band played the United Kingdom in November and the United States in December 2015, Asia and Oceania in January 2016, Europe in March to April 2016, and the US from April to May 2016. They played nine festivals over the summer of 2016, including
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in June and the
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in August. On 25 July 2016 the band announced a North American Tour for the Fall, beginning on 1 and 2 October at The Meadows Music & Arts Festival, and then playing three dates in Mexico, the first ever in the country. The band concluded the tour headlining Latitude Festival in Henham Park, United Kingdom on 14 July 2017, stating that it was "the end an of an era, but the start of a new era, called 'Music for Cars'". It is estimated that as of July 2017, the band had done over 150 concerts for this album-cycle.


Artwork

The album's artwork and design was created by Samuel Burgess-Johnson and photographed by David Drake. For each song on the album, a pink
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was created and put against various locations to create nostalgia for the song, but to also detail the thematic material and complexity of each song through the photo's atmosphere. Burgess-Johnson worked closely with Healy to help with the placement. The box set version of the album gained a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package.


Release and reception

The album was released on 26 February 2016. The US Target edition of the album includes two bonus tracks: a demo of "A Change of Heart" and the song "How to Draw". The record received mostly positive reviews from
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. At
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, the album has an average score of 75 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 24 reviews. Writing for '' Exclaim!'', Ian Gormely noted that the band's ambition was perhaps their sole stumbling block, though pursuing all musical avenues makes the result "overstuffed, awkwardly titled and frequently brilliant." In '' Drowned in Sound''s review of the album, they praised the album's eclecticism and lyricism, concluding, "What they've made is a bold body of work that sounds effortless and odd and sophisticated. What they do next is likely to be stadium-filling and bonkers and brilliant, but it matters little when what they're doing now is so sensational." ''
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'', who had previously been highly critical of the band, also praised the album for its scope and ambition, writing, "Any record that burrows as deep into your psyche as 'I Like It...' should be considered essential. It's hugely clever and wryly funny, too." Although music journalist Alexis Petridis noted that parts of the album were over-ambitious, he went on to claim that " credibly, though, most of the time Healy gets away with it. That's sometimes because his observations are sharp – as a skewering of celebrity #squad culture, "you look famous, let's be friends / And portray we possess something important / And do the things we like" is pretty acute – but more usually because they come loaded with witty self-awareness and deprecation: the endless depictions of vacuous, coke-numbed girls he has met would get wearying were it not for the fact that he keeps turning the lyrical crosshair on himself." In a more mixed review, ''
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'' criticised tracks like 'Lostmyhead' and 'Please Be Naked' for being 'boring-melty' but praised songs such as 'Somebody Else', 'Loving Someone' and 'Love Me'.


Accolades


Commercial performance

The album became the group's second number one in the United Kingdom, debuting atop the
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, with combined sales of over 58,000. It became the group's first number one on the US ''Billboard'' 200, with 98,000 pure album sales in its debut week and 108,000 sps, while also setting the record for longest title of a ''Billboard'' number-one album with 71 characters. The next week, it fell to number 26, tying with
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's 2011 album '' Mission Bell'' for the fourth largest drop from number 1 as of January 2017.Robbie Daw
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, 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2 December 2016. It also debuted at number one in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The album was certified platinum by the
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(BPI) for sales of over 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. On 10 April 2017 the album was certified
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by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and
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s of over 500,000 units.


Track listing


Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes and
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. The 1975 * George Daniel – programming , drums , keyboards , percussion , synthesiser , synthesiser programming ,
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* Adam Hann – electric guitar * Matthew Healy – vocals , background vocals , electric guitar , piano , keyboards , acoustic guitar , production * Ross MacDonald – bass guitar ,
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Additional musicians *
Mike Crossey Mike Crossey (born 1979) is a Northern Irish record producer, songwriter, and mixing engineer. He produced the debut single by Arctic Monkeys, collaborating with them over two albums. He is known for his ongoing relationship with The 1975 in a ...
– programming * Jonathan Gilmore – programming * Jason McGee – conducting * Cassandra Grigsby-Chism – choir vocals * Nicole King-Morgan – choir vocals * Crystal Lewis – choir vocals * Crystal Butler – choir vocals * Sharetta Morgan-Harmon – choir vocals * Quishima Dixon – choir vocals * Carisa Moore – choir vocals * Fallynn Oliver – choir vocals * Edward Lawson – choir vocals * Marquee Perkins – choir vocals * James Connor – choir vocals * Vernon Burris – choir vocals * Derrick Evans – choir vocals * Anika Weibe – choir vocals * Monique Sullivan – choir vocals * John Waugh –
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* Roy Hargrove – flugelhorn * Miguel Atwood-Ferguson –
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, string arrangement * Jamie Squire – synthesiser Technical * Mike Crossey – production, mixing * Jonathan Gilmore –
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, programming *
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– mastering Artwork * Samuel Burgess-Johnson – art direction, design, photography * David Drake – photography * Edward Emberson – inlay photography


Charts


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Certifications


References

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