The 1975 Perform @ Waterplace Park On June 21st

Critics have been bemused and thrilled by Manchester four-piece The 1975 and their amorphous drifts between brooding art rock, crisp electronica, dance-floor R&B, and 80s gloss-pop. "I don't think it's confusing," says singer Matty Healy of his band. "Feeling a lack of identity and the searching within oneself to acquire a real understanding of what you want to be, that's something that loads of people can connect with. It's so strange that with music people want so many rules."

Matty has known what The 1975 is for some years now, just waiting for the right moment to unveil their stories of lust, intoxication and the unabashed grittiness of modern youth. After releasing a trilogy of EPs (Facedown, Sex and Music For Cars) over the past year and a half, the band is poised to release their debut LP.

"This record is a proper soundtrack to our formative years," he says of their upcoming debut album, co-produced with Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, The Kooks). "It's everything that I know and every single song on the album, at some point, has been the most important thing in my life. I've spent my adult life working towards this album. It's literally everything I am." For more information please visit: www.Providenceri.com/ArtCultureTourism

The Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the City of Providence, Angel Taveras, Mayor, Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, Department of Parks & Recreation, 95.5 WBRU, Dunkin Donuts, The Providence Phoenix and Narragansett Beer.