With their luminous brand of electro-pop, London-based trio
Years & Years layer sweetly smooth vocals over bright and heady beats to
create what they call “music you can dance and cry to.” As winners of the BBC
Sound of 2015 Poll (an honour previously granted to such critically praised hit
makers as Sam Smith, Adele, and Ellie Goulding), bassist Mikey Goldsworthy, keyboard
player Emre Turkmen, and vocalist Olly Alexander have spent the last few years
charming audiences worldwide by merging R&B, deep house, and classic-pop
with both elegance and abandon. Years & Years are now poised to take that
early promise and breakthrough with the release of their highly anticipated
full-length debut album, Communion. Released on Polydor Records this July,
Communion features recent #1 single ‘King’ — a gorgeously synth-washed track
that reveals the raw yet lovely emotional power of the band’s gracefully
crafted sound. To achieve that sound, Years & Years recorded and
self-produced Communion in London with the help of collaborators like Mark
Ralph (the producer/engineer behind Hot Chip and Hot Natured), matching an
inventiveness inspired by such artists as Flying Lotus and Radiohead with a
daringly confessional lyrical sensibility. The album was mixed on three
different desks, each with their own distinct history – Conny Planks’, Tony
Visconti’s and with final touches all mixed on the desk Dr. Dre recorded ‘2001’
on.
With their luminous brand of electro-pop, London-based trio
Years & Years layer sweetly smooth vocals over bright and heady beats to
create what they call “music you can dance and cry to.” As winners of the BBC
Sound of 2015 Poll (an honour previously granted to such critically praised hit
makers as Sam Smith, Adele, and Ellie Goulding), bassist Mikey Goldsworthy, keyboard
player Emre Turkmen, and vocalist Olly Alexander have spent the last few years
charming audiences worldwide by merging R&B, deep house, and classic-pop
with both elegance and abandon. Years & Years are now poised to take that
early promise and breakthrough with the release of their highly anticipated
full-length debut album, Communion. Released on Polydor Records this July,
Communion features recent #1 single ‘King’ — a gorgeously synth-washed track
that reveals the raw yet lovely emotional power of the band’s gracefully
crafted sound. To achieve that sound, Years & Years recorded and
self-produced Communion in London with the help of collaborators like Mark
Ralph (the producer/engineer behind Hot Chip and Hot Natured), matching an
inventiveness inspired by such artists as Flying Lotus and Radiohead with a
daringly confessional lyrical sensibility. The album was mixed on three
different desks, each with their own distinct history – Conny Planks’, Tony
Visconti’s and with final touches all mixed on the desk Dr. Dre recorded ‘2001’
on.
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