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3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A sprawling, thoughtful LP that grapples with the big issues of our time in cheeky and mournful ways..."
"['Give Yourself a Try' is] noisy and sparkling, not only stealing Joy Division's 'Disorder' riff but exposing its dark film to sunlight."
5 stars out of 5 -- "[O]n the one hand it is a personal album about Matty's experience, but it's also an album about love in all its forms, love being the thread that links its genre-hopping tracks."
Paste (magazine) - "[D]ance pop is absolutely one of their strengths. 'Give Yourself a Try' has a fabulous ball of a beat that bounces between your ears, with Matty Healy's nasally vocals painting an melancholic picture of a misspent adulthood reminiscent of MGMT's 'Time To Pretend.'"
Paste (magazine) - "[A]nchored by the best set of singles in the band's catalog, which is saying something. The buzzy pep talk 'Give Yourself a Try' feels like hugging an electric fence..."
Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]he 1975 are a thrillingly unreasonable band for unreasonable times. Healy is their generational mouthpiece -- a guy who's never met a contradiction he couldn't fully inhabit, to arresting effect."
Clash (Magazine) - "It's romantic, existential, frantic, and disorganised, and that ultimately strange mix of tones, genres, and production all adds into a singular esthetic."