The 1975 unveil new single "Happiness"

"Happiness" follows last month's lead release "Part Of The Band" and is teamed with a Samuel Bradley-directed video. Matty Healy told Zane Lowe on his Apple Music 1 show of the track, ""Happiness" is like… there's literally loads of us in the room on that track. Locked eyes...Doesn’t really have much structure. It came through like jamming. And we haven't done that in like years. So we just wanted this record to be really like a captured moment and not be too constructed and even produced that much…we did it in like a day or so. And it's us having fun. And I think that there's this real desire in art to see something remarkable with as little technology as possible. Do you know what I mean? Like you don't need Paul Thomas Anderson directing. Do you know what I mean?"

The 1975's fifth album was recorded between Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios near Bath and New York's Electric Lady Studios, and was produced with Jack Antonoff. It'll follow their 2020 album Notes On A Conditional Form.

Healy told Lowe of working with Antonoff, "We became friends talking about production and what I was doing and what he was wanting to do and what I was wanting to do. And then I kind of just thought, "well, this is like a really nice new energy" ... I think that guy has a reputation for being busy, but I can tell you, he's just good. He's so good."

"He understands what artists need at any given moment," Healy continued. "And it happened very, very naturally. And I think that we were just feeling loads of stuff out, and all these things just kind of came together. Yeah, and me and Jack were just like talking about music and then those conversations, me, Jack and George. And then those conversations became about a 1975 record that felt more live. And then I was a bit like, "well, why are we talking about this? Why don't we just do this?""