{"product_id":"325060","title":"Years \u0026 Years - Communion [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith their luminous brand of electro-pop, London-based trio Years \u0026amp; Years layer sweetly smooth vocals over bright and heady beats to create what they call \\u201cmusic you can dance and cry to.\\u201d As winners of the BBC Sound of 2015 Poll (an honour previously granted to such critically praised hitmakers 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\u0026amp;B, deep house, and classic-pop with both elegance and abandon. \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eYears \u0026amp; Years are now poised to take that early promise and breakthrough with the release of their highly anticipated full-length debut album, Communion. Excitingly, they are also leading the pack to be one of the first bands to embark on the new global Friday release date initiative \\u2013 New Muisc Fridays \\u2013 which means their debut will be released to 45 international territories on the same day.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eReleased on Polydor Records this summer, Communion features recent #1 single \\u2018King\\u2019 \\u2014 a gorgeously synth-washed track that reveals the raw yet lovely emotional power of the band\\u2019s gracefully crafted sound. To achieve that sound, Years \u0026amp; 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 \\u2013 Conny Planks\\u2019, Tony Visconti\\u2019s and with final touches all mixed on the desk Dr. Dre recorded \\u20182001\\u2019 on. \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eOn the album, Years \u0026amp; Years shape their soulful ingenuity into songs that never hold back from looking at the darker and thornier sides of love. On the album-opener \\u2018Foundation\\u2019, a stark yet crystalline soundscape builds the perfect backdrop for Alexander\\u2019s hauntingly delivered lyrics (\\u201cAll the things I want\/I really shouldn\\u2019t get\\u201d). \\u2018Desire\\u2019 unfolds as an epic and giddy dance anthem that slyly flips the script at the chorus (\\u201cI want desire\/Because your love only gets me abused\\u201d). The somber strings and delicate piano work of \\u2018Eyes Shut\\u2019 gently conveys the pain of a slowly breaking heart, while the urgent beats and chilling piano of \\u2018Ties\\u2019 brilliantly echo the frenzy of emotional unraveling (\\u201cIt\\u2019s so beautiful to see you lie\/Are you having fun?\\u201d). And on \\u2018Memo\\u2019, Communion closes out with a falsetto-laced slow jam featuring crushing lyrics like \\u201cI\\u2019m gonna take your heart\/Love you in the dark\/No one has to see.\\u201d \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eCommunion also offers its share of songs with a more joyful and blissed-out bent.  New single \\u2018Shine\\u2019 begins with driving beats and dreamy R\u0026amp;B harmonies and then morphs into a full-throttle dance number, gloriously capturing the butterflies-in-the-belly thrill of falling in love. \\u201cThe metaphor of \\u2018shine\\u2019 and \\u2018shining\\u2019 comes from the way somebody can make you feel totally brand-new and special and re-made in the light of their love, but how that can feel incredibly unstable and overwhelming and make you want to destroy yourself,\\u201d explains Alexander. \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eFor Years \u0026amp; Years, instilling Communion with so much pure feeling was mainly a matter of carefully mining their own experience in heartbreak. \\u201cA lot of the lyrics are about a relationship of mine that ended last year,\\u201d explains Alexander. \\u201cIt was a chaotic situation where I wanted to win this person\\u2019s love and never succeeded and felt really rejected, and that\\u2019s where all these songs came from.\\u201d\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eFresh off a series of sold-out tours all across the globe, including selling out two nights at London\\u2019s Heaven in March and two nights already sold-out at Londons Shepherd\\u2019s Bush Empire this summer, Years \u0026amp; Years are fast gaining recognition for a high-energy live show that adds another dimension of heart and intensity to each song. \\u201cI grew up on people like Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell, but in the past few years I\\u2019ve become really passionate about electronic music and how there\\u2019s no limits to what you can create with it,\\u201d says Alexander. \\u201cYou can push the sound in this crazy way, and still keep it as real and honest and emotional as any other music out there.\\u201d\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. 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