Years & Years

not good :\

i don't hate it but it's pretty generic by their standards

Feels to me like Ollie trying to entrench his status as a gay club pop icon. It lacks that air of desperation which makes "Worship" (its closest antecedent, I think) so effective.

yeah this song is weirdly balanced. i appreciate that the video is as gay as possible though

Sounds kind of like a Kylie minogue album track

I hope it's a bit of a red herring

yeah i'm assuming it's a one-off for the soundtrack and not suggestive of the kind of stuff they're going to do. the hook is pretty generic but the writing especially is nowhere near the level of some of their best work, which can be so evocative and almost surreal -- to compare choruses describing extreme weather events, for example: "it's shaking the sky, and i'm following lightning / i'll recover if you keep me alive" vs "you hit me like a meteorite"

yeah it strikes me that many of their best lyrics sound like English by non-native speakers.

like a lot of recent soundtrack work i think they served an audience of theoretical new listeners something generally pleasing that hews close to their sound but contains less nuance than the songs on their own album

btw this is suuuuch a good road trip album

love this record

11-year-old secular sikh student of mine kept singing 'king' when i taught him this winter, was kind of lovely

where rtc at

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2016 08:24 Bookmark

it good i liked it. never got the easy breezy slick dance pop vibe from it tho. album aptly titled, very intense, wracked, beseeching, supplicant/domineering/calculating evangelical egotism (some mileage in comparison w/matt 1975 but not a lot)

also curiously totally medieval. good soundtrack for wooden planet spec script alien3 probably

it is really medieval

they're recording album 2 now

Fascinating adjective.

if you guys were wondering who that was bopping out of CVS with a 4pack of toilet paper in his hand, that was me listening to "real"

I had been wondering about that

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— Years & Years (@yearsandyears) March 7, 2018

new song today it seems

not sure how i feel about it http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060dx8y

Olly's hair has not improved.

sounded dece but not like a Hit Single

it's an all right song!

sounded dece but not like a Hit Single

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:02 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark

yeah i agree. it's an interesting little twist on their sound but i'm surprised it's the first single.

it can be like one of those singles they made videos for on their first album before "king" that were arresting in some way but obviously not going to be hits

I fuck with it, sounds like a very 2000s pop take on a communion album track

on replay, not super into this

i still kinda like it but it feels to me like a song that could have been on album 1 just w/ slightly different production that doesn't quite do it much favors

it's a little underwhelming, definitely not the same level than some of their best work...though it's better than "meteorite"

I know it's the way it is, but this strategy of testing and teasing the market with dribs and drabs has the effect of dampening my enthusiasm but idk that's mem.

*me

july 6th

put it in my veins

also curiously totally medieval. good soundtrack for wooden planet spec script alien3 probably

― r|t|c, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 2:08 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god bless rtc

already freebasing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psn18d-4hBI

not feeling this new single, feels way too twee and like it was written as a commercial jingle?

co-written/produced by Steve Mac so that explains that

yeeeeeeah... i think the songwriting is great but it almost sounds like a sigala song

*cough*

oh boy

I was underwhelmed by the singles but this actually turned out alright I think. “Karma” and “Hallelujah” both slap and “All For You” especially. It’s a bit les Kitsuné than the first one production-wise.

It's gotten surprisingly positive reviews (my take goes up on Monday). "Surprisingly" because while Alexander is more confident he's also turned the act into Maroon 5 with himself as Adam Levine. The other two are barely involved. Far less angst.

The leaked tracks are awful, but look at the credits (Julia Michaels, Thomas Hull).

what are leaked tracks? the album is out

ok listening now

what u think deej

The album is a lot stronger than I was expecting based on the two singles. Not sure what they were thinking with those choices when they had Hallelujah, Karma, Rendezvous and Up In Flames right there.

what are leaked tracks? the album is out

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), S

"Sanctify" and "Hallelujah."

They were mad to leave "UP in Flames" off the album: an excellent freestyle-soaked banger w/the record's most confident Olly performance.

It's on the deluxe edition, that is (you can stream it on Spotify).

Yeah, Up In Flames is so great. It screams lead single, not bonus track.

listened to this a couple of nights ago but was doing other things at the time...there wasn't much that grabbed me but I need to give it a closer listen