From the moment they first sprang from the Cheshire suburbs—with a name inspired by the crazed scrawl on a secondhand Jack Kerouac book—The 1975 have pushed at the boundaries of what it means to be a British guitar band. Initially, this meant an unabashed embrace of bass-slapping 1980s bombast; the glistening power chords that leant their self-titled 2013 debut a euphoric, stadium-sized sense of melody and scale. But, led by quicksilver frontman Matty Healy's eagerness to grapple with personal demons and global anxieties, their sonic omnivorousness has grown to encompass everything from deliriously catchy, choir-laden synth pop (“The Sound”) to glitching, sun-kissed Afrobeats (“TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME”). The nocturnally-inspired record Notes On a Conditional Form—complete with a Greta Thunberg feature and the skittering, UK garage-indebted “Frail State of Mind”—once more points to a band unafraid to take maximalist risks. After all, as Healy intones amid glossed guitars on early single “Girls”, “Where’s the fun in doing what you’re told?”