It topped the UK Albums Chart and delivered fan-favourite singles such as King, which reached the pole position, Desire, Shine and Eyes Shut. Night Call will mark Years & Years’ first full-length collection since 2018’s Palo Santo, which spawned huge pop anthems such as Sanctify, All For You and If You’re Over Me, the latter of which has been certified platinum in the UK.Ĭommunion, Years & Years’ debut, was one of the most commercially successful albums of 2014.
🌙🧜🏻♂️NIGHT CALL🌒✨ – my new album is out on the 7th January 🌘 Night Call has been my escape for the past couple of years, I’m so excited to share it with you all 🥺 💜 pre-order the album, listen to CRAVE and watch the video, all from 5pm BST TODAY x /KuruedVUFi He performed the latter at the 2021 BRIT Awards with Elton John to widespread critical acclaim. Since going solo, Olly has reached the top 40 with Starstruck – thanks to a remix from Kylie Minogue – and topped iTunes with his stripped-back cover of Pet Shop Boys’ synthpop classic It’s A Sin. Years & Years has today announced details of brand new album, Night Call, which will see a release on Polydor Records. In March, former members Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre Türkmen announced that they will be stepping back from their duties to work on solo endeavours, while assuring fans that the trio are “still good friends”. I'm ready for your night call (Night call) Come and get it if you're brave No, don't make me wait I'm vibing on your dial tone (Night call) One thing on my brain So ring me again Ooh baby, just ring me again Ooh baby, just ring me again Ooh baby, just ring me again (And again and again and again) Ooh baby, just Just ring me again Ooh baby, just. The album will be the first for Years & Years since the band became a solo project for Olly. Olly announced details for Night Call on Twitter, telling fans that the new material has “been my escape for the past couple of years” and that he’s “so excited to share it with you all”. It will feature the star’s critically-acclaimed pop anthem Starstruck and Crave, which was released 28 September.
The album, titled Night Call, will be released 7 January 2022. It’s far from the gay community’s best dancefloor offering, but still far from the worst.Olly Alexander has revealed the title and release date of Years & Years’ highly-anticipated third studio album.
Now it seems like he’s trying to make up for lost time by erasing his indie electronic roots through the overproduced and overzealous storytelling found on Night Call. The album’s strongest quality is that it shows Alexander’s true flair for dance-pop, one that he probably would have been better off pursuing from the very beginning. More than half the album just sounds like most of the “Queer as Folk” soundtrack-the same bad EDM dancefloor track on a loop. It’s just that, in order to truly convey one’s gayest carnal desires through the magic of dance-pop, one has to go beyond just merely the same recycled lyrics and sounds about sweaty dancefloors and giving into temptation. Which is not to say that Night Call is lacking a ballad or something a bit more somber and queer like Sivan’s “The Good Side.” The record is constructed to very easily follow a structure of up-tempo dance-pop and isn’t necessarily lacking anything conceptually this time. And while Alexander did follow through for the most part with that promise on Night Call, it’s hard not to crave-for lack of a better term-something more. He can be found dressed as a mysterious mermaid on the cover of Night Call. (Years & Years’ last top 5 hit was in 2015.) With the more artsy pop sound found on “Starstruck,” one’s ears could easily predict that an album with a sound more in line with that of Kim Petras or Troye Sivan would follow. Its a big first: the synthpop anthems of Years & Years will finally resound. With the release of “Starstruck” as the album’s lead single nearly a year ago, it was made immediately clear that Alexander’s new music would be a departure from the more conceptually queer pop found on the group’s earlier releases-one that was a little less commercially sustainable than most indie pop. Ironically, however, almost everything on Night Call leaves something to be desired. From his perspective on this record, it’s pursuing our innermost carnal desires no matter what the cost. With his latest studio album Night Call, Alexander tries to embrace and convey what it means to be a gay pop star. He’s now in complete creative control of both his music and acting careers, having appeared in the lead role on Channel 4’s miniseries “It’s a Sin” in 2021. But in a trajectory similar to that of Brendon Urie with Panic! at the Disco, Years & Years has since become Alexander’s solo project. On 2015’s Communion and 2018’s Palo Santo, Years & Years were a trio led by frontman Olly Alexander.
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