Is The 1975 Resurrecting Its Drive Like I Do Alias?

Before The 1975 was The 1975, they went by the name “Drive Like I Do” — an emo band that was fond of Fall Out Boy covers — and from the looks of a new website, that alias may be getting resurrected. 

Last year, when asked during a Reddit AMA if the new album Notes on a Conditional Form would be an emo record, singer Matty Healy replied “Kind of yeah.”

When you go to the Drive Like I Do website, those same words flash on the screen, confined by The 1975’s signature rectangle. In 2017, Healy confirmed DLID’s debut album would arrive “in the coming few years,” and stressed it and The 1975 are “separate entities;” however, it sure seems like the side project and upcoming batch of music are intertwined.

In fact, he described one of the band’s newer tracks, “Me & You Together Song,” as “a Drive Like I Do song (kind of),” confessing that the band’s “current vibe is very DLID.” Naturally, fans are losing their minds with excitement (and a little skepticism).

Notes on a Conditional Form is slated to come out this Spring, after the band postponed its February 21 and new April 24 release dates. 

“I’ll be honest with you lot, Liverpool, I’ll tell you a secret, it’s gonna be a couple of weeks late, because I keep writing stuff,” Healy said during a recent show in Liverpool.”

“I’m never gonna put out a record I’m not happy with,” he added. “I’ve just finished it. So it will come out as soon as it’s physically made.”

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