The 1975 have announced a 10th anniversary vinyl reissue of ‘I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it’.
The Mancunian rock quartet will reissue their second album that spawned major hits like ‘Love Me’, ‘UGH!’, ‘Somebody Else’ and ‘The Sound’. The 80s-inspired record also topped NME‘s Albums of the Year list when it first dropped in 2016.
The reissue will arrive February 27 via Dirty Hit (pre-order it here), and will contain a limited-edition pink vinyl in a six panel triple gatefold package.
It will also come with alternative artwork on its cover, along with 17 12” x 12” art cards featuring lyrics from every song on the reverse.
Take a look at the packaging and tracklisting for ‘I like it when you sleep…’ down below:
The 1975’s ‘I like it when you sleep…’ 10th anniversary vinyl tracklisting is:
LP1
Side A
‘The 1975’
‘Love Me’
‘UGH!’
‘A Change Of Heart’
‘She’s American’
Side B
‘If I Believe You’
‘Please Be Naked’
‘Lostmyhead’
‘The Ballad Of Me And My Brain’
LP2
Side C
‘Somebody Else’
‘Loving Someone’
‘i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it’
‘The Sound’
Side D
‘This Must Be My Dream’
‘Paris’
‘Nana’
‘She Lays Down’
When we crowned ‘I like it when you sleep…’ as our top album of the year, we wrote: “At 74 minutes long, with 17 tracks spanning everything from pop to post-rock and all points in between, the Manchester group’s second album was a fascinating reflection of their frontman Matt Healy’s outsized, often contrarian, personality: egomaniacal but introverted, populist but unapologetically pretentious, insecure but hungry for attention.
““The world needs this album,” Healy told NME, and the world’s response to it – topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic – proved him right,” we concluded.
Frontman Matty Healy spoke to NME about making the record, where he told us that “we wanted it to feel very cinematic and it is almost the length of a film”.
“We got to the point where we were told it wouldn’t fit on a CD if we carried on,” he added. “It was just this really exciting creative bender, and the more ridiculous it got, the more subversive it got.
He went on to proclaim: “But there’s f**k all wrong with the album. Nothing. It’s perfect for me. I could spend another two years on it and maybe make it three per cent better.”
Meanwhile, The 1975 reportedly have two albums on the way.
The records would serve as the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language‘, which dropped in 2022.
The band apparently foreshadowed the name of one album at their huge Glastonbury headline set last year, with the word ‘DOGS’ flashing very briefly at the end of their show.
Healy went on to tell a fan that the band have made two albums, clarifying: “We made two. It might be one, it might be two… but yeah, we’ve made two albums”.
Manager Jamie Oborne has also teased that The 1975’s new record would be “pretty extraordinary”, adding that he has a “constant discourse about it” with the band.
However, he cautioned that their next effort might not be released for a while, explaining: “I think they’ve earned the right to take their time. The world’s gonna be listening, so it needs to be right.”
Elsewhere, The Cribs’ Ryan Jarman had a guitar stolen – only to find it in the hands of The 1975 and Beabadoobee 20 years later.
