The band consists of lead vocalist, principal songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Matty Healy,[1] drummer and primary producer George Daniel, lead guitarist Adam Hann, and bassist Ross MacDonald.

[2] The band's eponymous debut album, The 1975 (2013), debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry.

Its follow-up, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It, was released on 26 February 2016 and became their second successive chart topper.

Subsequent albums A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018) and Notes on a Conditional Form (2020) both reached number one as well.

The band's fifth album Being Funny in a Foreign Language followed on 14 October 2022.