It’s curiously apt that a band with the name Years & Years should have struggled to find overnight success, only to suddenly break through as if they had been there all along. For Emre Turkmen, Olly Alexander and Mikey Goldsworthy are concerned the reward for the literal years of honing their electropop craft must surely have been the moment they were crowned the Â鶹Éç’s Sound of 2015.
And they’ve not exactly been wasting time since then. Sunlight - the band’s No.7 collaboration with The Magician from 2014 - got the ball rolling, and it was then given an extra kick by the band’s arresting performance of Desire on Later… and finally the No.1 King came along to hoof the thing clean out of the stadium before the release of their debut album Communion. Oh, and don’t forget to check out their soul-drenched Live Lounge cover of Haim’s Don’t Save Me.
It’s curiously apt that a band with the name Years & Years should have struggled to find overnight success, only to suddenly break through as if they had been there all along. For Emre Turkmen, Olly Alexander and Mikey Goldsworthy are concerned the reward for the literal years of honing their electropop craft must surely have been the moment they were crowned the Â鶹Éç’s Sound of 2015.
And they’ve not exactly been wasting time since then. Sunlight - the band’s No.7 collaboration with The Magician from 2014 - got the ball rolling, and it was then given an extra kick by the band’s arresting performance of Desire on Later… and finally the No.1 King came along to hoof the thing clean out of the stadium before the release of their debut album Communion. Oh, and don’t forget to check out their soul-drenched Live Lounge cover of Haim’s Don’t Save Me.
