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== Music and structure ==

''Notes on a Conditional Form'' is a sonically [[Experimental music|experimental]] album that explores an expansive array of genres,<ref name="IDInterview"/> incorporating sounds, styles and textures extrapolated from a diverse set of scenes and eras.<ref name="Dombal"/><ref name="Sodomsky">{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form/|title=The 1975: Notes on a Conditional Form|last=Sodomsky|first=Sam|work=Pitchfork|date=22 May 2020|access-date=13 September 2020|archive-date=2 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102162932/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Wood">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-05-21/the-1975-matty-healy-notes-on-a-conditional-form|title=The 1975's Matty Healy has an adorable new puppy and a bonkers new album|last=Wood|first=Mikael|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=21 May 2020|access-date=27 January 2021|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131000236/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-05-21/the-1975-matty-healy-notes-on-a-conditional-form|url-status=live}}</ref> Growing comfortable with their identity, the 1975 incorporated ideas from a planned electronic album into the record,<ref name="GuitarWorld"/><ref name="BBInterview">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9377746/the-1975-interview-notes-on-a-conditional-form|title=Liner 'Notes': The 1975's Matty Healy Talks Releasing an Opus Under Quarantine|last=Unterberger|first=Andrew|magazine=Billboard|date=14 May 2020|access-date=27 January 2021|archive-date=13 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113055323/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9377746/the-1975-interview-notes-on-a-conditional-form|url-status=live}}</ref> extensively utilising [[House music|house]] music and [[UK garage]].<ref name="Wetmore1"/> Brenton Blanchet of ''[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]'' said ''Notes on a Conditional Form'' serves to "cement [the 1975] as genre shapeshifters", building upon the experimentation of their third studio album.<ref name="Blanchet">{{cite web|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form|title=The 1975 - Notes On A Conditional Form|last=Blanchet|first=Brenton|work=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|date=17 May 2020|access-date=15 January 2021|archive-date=24 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524030624/https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form|url-status=live}}</ref> Matt Collar of [[AllMusic]] shared this sentiment and commented that it continues the "self-aware, implicitly obvious" experimentation of its predecessor.<ref name="Collar"/> Lindsay Zoladz of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said the record disregards traditional album structures, calling it a "collection of peaks and valleys".<ref name="Zoladz">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/arts/music/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form-review.html|title=The 1975: Self-Aware, Self-Indulgent and, Yes, Sincere|last=Zoladz|first=Lindsay|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 May 2020|access-date=14 January 2021|archive-date=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115223240/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/arts/music/the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For this reason, Mitch Mosk of ''[[Atwood Magazine]]'' said the album traverses "lush valleys" of ambience and "stirring peaks" of intimacy, ultimately deeming it genreless.<ref name="mosk1">{{cite web|url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/noacf-the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form-album-review/|title=The 1975's Epic 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Is an Odyssey of Sound & Substance|last=Mosk|first=Mitch|work=[[Atwood Magazine]]|date=22 May 2020|access-date=15 January 2021|archive-date=1 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101221407/https://atwoodmagazine.com/noacf-the-1975-notes-on-a-conditional-form-album-review/|url-status=live}}</ref> His colleague Ben Niesen echoed these statements, deeming it "less of a record and more of a portfolio".<ref name="Roundtable">{{cite web|url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/no75-the-1975-notes-roundtable-album-review/|title=Roundtable: A Review of The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form'|last1=Lane|first1=Lexi|last2=Mosk|first2=Mitch|last3=Dunn|first3=Matthew|last4=McHale|first4=Maggie|last5=Garcia|first5=Erica|last6=Niesen|first6=Ben|last7=Schaarschmidt|first7=Nina|work=Atwood Magazine|date=1 June 2020|access-date=5 January 2021|archive-date=11 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211124239/https://atwoodmagazine.com/no75-the-1975-notes-roundtable-album-review/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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