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The 1975 has been classified as a pop-rock band. Scott Kerr of All Music wrote that the band combined "the dark and youthful themes of sex, love, and fear with ethereal alt-rock music. Healy specifically cites Talking Heads, My Bloody Valentine, and Michael Jackson as musical influences; he states that his greatest influence is the oeuvre of filmmaker John Hughes. For their second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It,
Healy cited D'Angelo, Roberta Flack, Boards of Canada, and Sigur Rós as inspirations, saying that they're "a post-modern pop band that references a million things. I don't even know what my band is half the time. Their "melancholic" black and white visual aesthetic are juxtaposed with major keys and what the band calls "classic pop sensibilities. Critics at Pitchfork have favourably compared them to the Big Pink. Sex EP was described by Paste as "equal parts ethereal and synth pop", with "haunting" and "smooth" vocals. Their "mellow", stripped-down style was praised for its lack of "attention-grabbing production theatrics.
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The 1975 has been described as electropop, funk rock, indie pop, indie rock, pop, pop-rock, and rock. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It has been described as an indie rock[84] and pop.
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Healy has stated that their influence is "heavily rooted" in Black American music in many interviews.
Public reaction to the band's music has been mixed, particularly on social media platforms like Twitter, "perhaps the last public space for unfettered music criticism in an increasingly anti-critical landscape", according to Vice magazine's Larry Fitzmaurice in 2016. In an essay on the critical response, he said they have been "the Most Hated and Loved Band in the World" and described "as underrated and overhyped, although the needle has far more often swung towards the former direction. In Fitzmaurice's opinion, the band's debut album was mainly a straightforward rock album recorded "with a soft-focus and especially British sensibility", while I Like It When You Sleep was only rock music in the loosest sense of the word. Overall, he said their music is pop "in the realm of Alternative", most comparable to
