The 1975‘s Matty Healy and George Daniel went on the Song Exploder podcast this week to deconstruct ‘The Birthday Party’ from their latest album ‘Notes on a Conditional Form’.Healy spoke about how the track was a rare example of the band writing the arrangement together, rather than Daniel or him coming up with the idea in its entirety.The pair also shared iPhone recordings of early acoustic versions of the song – listen to the full podcast below.Healy explained that he wrote the song at the end of a relationship, after relapsing for the first time since coming out of rehab.“Everything felt like it was drawing to end in a natural way.
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