Years & Years score second UK Number One album with ‘Night Call’

Editor Katie Watkins 29/0122

The beautiful and talented Olly Alexander has claimed is second number 1 album with "Night Call".

The new album, which landed last week (January 21), debuted at the top spot with 75 per cent of its total sales coming from physical copies.

The third album from Years & Years, and it's sleek and hooky.  

Night Call, is singer Olly Alexander's first production since the departure of founding members Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre Türkmen. 

Amiably citing creative differences that grew more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, the trio split in 2021.

 The result is a diamond-sharp production rife with disco-hot bangers that evoke the classic work of artists like Giorgio Moroder, Michael Jackson, and the Real McCoy. 

It's a frothy, throw-back aesthetic that fits perfectly with Alexander's  camp yet beautiful charismatic persona and highly resonant vocal style even as it is admittedly a stylistic shift away from the arty electronica that helped win the group a BBC Sound of 2015 award.

 While there's certainly a more direct pop quality to Alexander's work here, the album is no less finely attuned than his past work. 

After being informed of his triumphant success Olly said  “I’m just really, really proud of everybody who worked on the album and most of all the loyal fans who bought this album and streamed it – I can’t believe it, thank you so, so, so much! We got to Number 1 baby!!” 

Night Call is available to but from good Music Retail Outlets and can be downloaded and streamed from good official streaming sites.