YEARS AND YEARS - NIGHT CALL REVIEW

 Last Friday (January the 21st) Years & Years released their third studio album, which is the first one since the group split up and Olly Alexander decided to keep the band name to release his solo music.

Night Call takes influences from the 80s and disco music, but it certainly is music from this century (from 2022 or 2019, when Olly started writing songs for this record). The result is a dance and up-tempo ensemble which explores desire and attraction in a very open way. 

Included on the album are the previously released singles: Starstruck (that had the dance-pop queen Kylie Minogue on the remix) ,Sweet Talker (with Galantis), which entered a few weeks ago in the Top 40 , and the latest one, Sooner Or Later. It also features some Years & Years hits and the It's A Sin version with Elton John, which was performed at last year's BRITS, consolidating (with Kylie's appearance) Alexander as a true pop-star.

Night Call is made up of danceable, light songs to dance to in a night club. However,  Alexander and his partners play the game of love and that drives the record to drama, where craving for the partner's love makes the Years & Years frontman explore and reflect  about betrayal , peaking in Sweet Talker. The record could be described as beautifully [ dancing] tragic, like he sings in 20 Minutes.

Produced by Mark Ralph (who produced Communion), the whole record is wrapped by a feeling of enchantment and fascination, proper of other worlds , like the ocean and Olly's mermaid transformation which appears in the cover.