Credit: Vijat MohindraWhen The 1975 announced that their third album will be titled Music for Cars, you might've had two thoughts: one, that Music for Cars is a lot shorter than the name of the band's most recent album, 2016's I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it; and two, didn't they already use Music for Cars for something else?
Yes, Music for Cars is also the title of The 1975 EP released in 2013. As frontman Matt Healy tells NME, the decision to reuse that title was very much intentional.
"We're using it as the album title now because of how meta and self-referential everything has become in the world of The 1975," Healy says. "And Music for Cars was always my favorite title of everything we'd ever done, so it kinda made sense to wrap it up that way."
Healy adds that Music for Cars will represent the end of a sort of trilogy.
"Our first three albums are the story of a person; it's always kind of been my story," he says. "It spanned adolescence to maturity, success and trying to mediate the two, and the third one is where we are now."
Music for Cars is expected to be released in 2018.
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