Years & Years

so excited about seeing them tonight

Live show was really good when I saw them last week! They are so shameless in the best way. Ollie Alexander seems so thrilled by their audiences, it's really endearing.

hope Ollie is as drunk as he was reported to be a couple weeks ago.

im really mad i missed them in nyc

FWIW this is what I had to say about it last week.

Olly was either wasted or really naturally hyper

Fuck was he wearing though, socks n shorts beyond hideousness

I love this band so much, actually can't imagine how much they'd have meant to me if they'd been around when I was 22

They covered Toxic! We'd been told a Britney cover would happen, I guessed Born To Make You Happy bc codependency, Grace guessed Hold It Against Me. She should cover Ties though

His voice sounds better live, possibly helps that the audience are fully into singing every line

Their music probs doesn't warrant as much slutdropping as Olly thinks it does

it occurred to me today that sonically this album is kind of like "what if the bieber album were good"

and "if Bieber projected any sexuality"

"Shine" will be my #1 single on my P&J ballot

i love "shine" so much

makes me tear up

that and "memo" kill me 100 percent

i wanna choreograph a very sad dance to "memo"

"Memo" probably my favourite song of the year, and certainly the one that has upset me the most.

Also really into the slighter but very pretty bonus track "1977", which they should have called "1975".

and for Brad's sake maybe called it "The 1975."

Yah that's what I mean

i don't think a british pop song has emotionally crippled me as much as "memo" has since daniel bedingfield's "if you're not the one" (lol). which like ofc.

https://soundcloud.com/lexlomain/desire-years-years-ft-tove-lo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNb4FBawH_U

pass

except his haircut, jesus

Olly's post on the band's facebook re: this video was incredible

I bought some South American edition of the album that has something like 43 songs.

and, no, not for one moment has Olly been cute. Emre Turkmen is my boy.

I bought some South American edition of the album that has something like 43 songs.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, March 4, 2016 3:44 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

???

I cannot dig into this thread rn, but what's the consensus...ILM loves this band, yah? Or...?

We like the album.

Well, 'the band' is pretty much the same as 'the album' (so far). Right?

i'm still listening to this album for days on end, def one of my top records of the decade

recently fell in love with "1977."

https://twitter.com/yearsandyears/status/719469546449551360

:D

I love this album.

Yeah, this is a great album. I'd love something new from them soon. Isn't it time for the deluxe edition with a bunch of new songs or something?

such a good record

I forget about every couple months, then something like "Real" comes on and I'm like daaaamn

wonder if olly might do some solo guest vocal stuff in between albums

I'm not sure it would interest me. Away from the group ethos I think his vocals would frighten me.

yeah depends on if he wrote the lyrics also

my nightmare is if he shows up in an Elton John video or something

sounds like his nightmare too

he could probably rock a Katy B duet idk

he's guested on some stuff already - there's his turn on 'Sunlight' and there's a Clean Bandit song I hear in work sometimes that's got him on it too, both of them are not awful

Yeah, this is a great album. I'd love something new from them soon. Isn't it time for the deluxe edition with a bunch of new songs or something?

― Kitchen Person,

There was a "Super Deluxe Boxset" released last year but only had two bonus tracks on it.

Think they've said they're booked into the studio later this year to start work on a follow up.

uh which of you assholes didn't tell me about this band

"real" is m'/ l the best song ever

also i'm high

whaaaaaaat "shine"

wow i'm 3 songs into this band's catalog and they're the best band ever

just by the way....i happened to find this thread because for some reason i was listening to old school britney spears and i was searching ilx for "born to make you happy" and i found this thread somehow why because it was meant to be and may i just say listening to this band in that context is possibly the best way to discover this band