Years & Years

GIG REVIEW: Years and Years, Cat Burns & Queer House Party at OVO Arena, Wembley

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

WHEN?: Thursday 26 May 2022, tour runs until 12 November 2022

SETLIST: Night Call; Sweet Talker; Consequences; Sooner Or Later; Shine; Muscle; Play; Sunlight; Sanctify; Worship/Rendezvous; Desire; Hallucination; Up In Flames; Here; 20 Minutes; Eyes Shut; It’s A Sin; Crave; Starstruck; If You’re Over Me; King

Years and Years’ frontman Olly Alexander appears onstage in a see-through telephone box singing Night Call, the title track of his new 3rd album, and it immediately makes us think of Doctor Who.

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SONG OF THE WEEK: Sweet Talker by Years & Years with Galantis (Friday 17 December 2021)

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

Welcome to the 6th single of 2021 by a solo Olly Alexander performing as Years & Years which tees up perfectly the band’s 3rd album Night Call, out 21 January 2022.

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SONG OF THE WEEK: Crave by Years & Years (week beginning 3 November 2021)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

Crave is co-written by lead singer Olly Alexander and is an infectious, dancefloor friendly bop which is the 2nd single from the band’s 3rd album Night Call, to be released 7 January 2022.

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9 reasons why we can’t wait for April 2021 starring the return of the Blow Monkeys

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  1. Blow Monkeys release More Than A Miracle

It’s not easy being a band with a 40-year history that wants to write new material when the fans are familiar with hits as glorious as Digging Your Scene, It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way and Wait. The trick is to write material as memorable as the songs that broke you and the Blow Monkeys played a blinder with Time Storm, a song of the week for us last year. The follow-up More Than A Miracle out 16/4/21 is in a similar vein, doesn’t disappoint and sits well with the best of the band’s back catalogue. Album Journey To You follows in September. Tickets are on sale for UK dates in October including a London gig at 229. Read our interview with Dr Robert on this site in April.

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SONG OF THE MONTH: Dreamland by Pet Shop Boys feat Years & Years (October 2019)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

OUT: now

It would be fair to say we were surprised that sophomore Years & Years album Palo Santo was released last year without this track.

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AWARDS: MONSTAS: Our best gig of 2018 so far

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We awarded 13 monstas for the best pop, theatre, TV and film of 2017 in December – and here we look at the cream of 2018 so far and what’s to come. Suede, Shura and Bananarama are previous winners in this category.

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GIG REVIEW: Years & Years and MNEK at Camden Roundhouse

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

WHERE?: Camden Roundhouse

WHEN?: 10/7/18 and touring to 7/2/19

SETLIST: Sanctify; Take Shelter; Shine; Eyes Shut; If You’re Over Me; Karma; Desire; Palo Santo; Rendezvous; Worship; Hallelujah; Real; All For You; Valentino (with MNEK); King

MNEK has transformed himself into a captivating, all-singing, all-dancing performer in the several years since we’ve last seen him live.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Palo Santo by Years & Years

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

OUT: 6/7/18

TRACKLIST: Sanctify; Hallelujah: All For You; Karma; Hypnotised; Rendezvous; If You’re Over Me; Preacher; Lucky Escape; Palo Santo; Here; Howl; Don’t Panic; Up In Flames

It’s been no secret that Years & Years have been struggling to follow up their 2015 chart-topping album Communion and now it’s here Palo Santo sounds more like frontman Olly Alexander’s debut solo album.

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