Matty Healy has declared The 1975’s next album is “nearly done”.
The Chocolate singer revealed earlier this year the group were working on the follow-up to 2022’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language, and he’s now offered a promising update to fans in a surprise video message.
Matty and his dad, Tim Healy, appeared on the big screens at an event in North Shields on Friday (25.09.26) for Sunday For Sammy, a charity in the North East of which the singer is a patron.
Thanking those in attendance for the fundraiser, which featured a performance from tribute act The 9075, Matty said: “I’m trying to finish this album, I don’t know if I’m ever gonna do it, but I’ve nearly finished it. Yeah, it’s nearly done.”
Back in February, the 37-year-old frontman revealed he was keeping busy working on new music and playing the 2025 dystopian extraction shooter game Arc Raiders.
He revealed on Reddit: “Hellooo I have been living in the studio and not sleeping much (happens I think normally one month a year) and after work playing Arc Raiders almost religiously. I’ve never had a game that’s part of my life like an album or something it has become something I take quite seriously. Would be cool to play with you guys – any suggestions of how to do it without doxing my gamer tag and just blowing my shit up? Loveeeee m x (sic)”
Towards the end of 2025, Matty said his life will be hectic over the next two years, telling his Reddit followers: “Feeling very unc and very lucky to be in 1975 atm. Next two years looks mental (sic)”
Matty’s TV star mother, Denise Welch, previously revealed she had heard the new material her son’s band has been working on during their downtime from the road.
She was quoted by the Daily Star as saying at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards in October: “It’s fabulous. It’s very different, but it’s got the DNA of The 1975, I think you’ll love it.”
Matty also confirmed the existence of two albums, one of which is called Dogs.
He told students during a Q+A session at Gateshead College in December: “We made two. It might be one, it might be two… but yeah, we’ve made two albums.”
The Love Me group’s manager, Dirty Hit label boss Jamie Oborne, told The Money Trench podcast: “They’re making a record at the moment. I don’t know when it will come out, but they’re making one.
“I think they’ve earned the right to take their time.
“The world’s gonna be listening, so it needs to be right.”