2018. Indie Pop/Rock. The album has more to offer than a series of clever pastiches. The bands inventive songwriting never stints on radio friendliness - the melody of TooTimeTooTimeTooTime is effervescent, while I Couldnt Be More in Love is the kind of epic song that TV talent-show contestants feel impelled to take on. But they also push themselves. The vocal on Petrichor floats over stammering, glitchy techno; a quarter of Sincerity Is Scary is taken up with its intro, a cosseting blend of jazzy horns and piano. On the downside, Healy has a tendency to occasionally tell you things you wish hed kept to himself. The acoustic ballad Be My Mistake has a lovely melody, but it is also the sound of a rock star complaining about ladies wanting to have sex with him, as curious a play for the listeners sympathy today as it was ever was. Then again, operating without filter is the point of Matty Healy. The same strange personality evinced in his interviews - where grandiose rock-star pronouncements vie with painful ho