The 1975 have wiped their socials and we all know what that means

30 April 2018, 11:10 | Written by Laurence Day

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(The 1975)

We're (probably, possibly, hopefully) just days away from The 1975's Music For Cars era - they've done an XXL bunch of teasing over the weekend.

The Manchester crew have also wiped their band and personal social accounts, and blacked out their official website - the last time they pulled a stunt like this we were all treated to the start of their I like it when you sleep... chapter.

Over the weekend posters started popping up around London, hinting at something with a timeline and the initials of upcoming album Music For Cars:

// First disobey then look at your phones // #The1975 pic.twitter.com/zb7YSNXAhZ
— The 1975 Updates (@The1975_Tour) April 28, 2018

And then after those got spotted the band threw up some kinda manifesto on their social accounts:

pic.twitter.com/NPkuRTLhb1
— Jamie Oborne (@jamieoborne) April 29, 2018

Fans, understandably, jolted up into fifth gear to try and figure out what was going on - some reckon lyrics, which certainly seems plausible.

The poster also includes a catalogue number from label Dirty Hit - DH00327 - which seems to indicate a release is lined up for sooner rather than later. 1 June, perhaps?

We've still not had that much-teased What A Shame EP, and a rumoured release date for Music For Cars has been and gone - so who really knows when it all kicks off? Well, manager Jamie Oborne has some clue, at least:

Yes for a few more days... https://t.co/Iz3w3fCwkE
— Jamie Oborne (@jamieoborne) April 22, 2018

Healy told us a while back that they were definitely working on the next record, and he's since said that the band plans to release new music in the near future. The 1975's Mercury-nominated second record was released in 2016.

Whatever the release date will end up being, Music For Cars is still one of the albums we're most looking forward to this year.