The 1975 praise Jack Antonoff for identifying “what an artist is really good at” in producing new album

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The 1975‘s Matty Healy has praised Jack Antonoff for his work on the band’s forthcoming album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’.The singer said in a new interview that Antonoff’s reputation is often that of being a “busy”, in-demand producer but that he wanted to stress just how “good” and incisive a producer he is.

Antonoff, who also fronts Bleachers and Fun, is known for working with high-profile stars including Taylor Swift, Lorde and Florence + The Machine.Explaining to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 how the collaboration came about, Healy said: “We spent the whole of 2021 trying to figure out what [the new album] was.

It wasn’t as obvious as it seemed by the time we got to the beginning of this year and made the record. We tried loads of different things.

It was like some kind of continuation of ‘Notes [On A Conditional Form’] for a little bit.“And then what happened was Beabadoobee was making a record and Jack Antonoff was maybe going to do it,” he said. “So that’s when me and Jack Antonoff started talking about that.