There are still plenty of tracks aimed squarely at the dancefloor –‘Starstruck’, ‘Crave’ and ‘Sweet Talker’ all fit that bill here – but elsewhere there are more R&B influences at play, especially on some of the more downtempo songs like ‘Intimacy’ and ‘Make it Out Alive’, while there are also a few dancehall flavours sprinkled on tracks like ‘Immaculate’. While it’s certainly not as huge a shift in gear as you might have expected with the departure of the previous members, Night Call does feel like a move further into pure, unadulterated pop territory. The already-released single ‘Sweet Talker’ with Galantis features on the album, while on the deluxe version there’s also the track featuring Kylie Minogue, ‘A Second to Midnight’, but other than that it’s just Olly Alexander going it alone for the most part. Two more new tracks followed, with ‘Sweet Talker’ delivered in January and ‘Sooner or Later’ emerging in mid-January, with a handful of UK tour dates for 2022 also announced along the way.Īmong the many contributors listed on the album are Mark Ralph, AlunaGeorge’s George Reid, Swedish electronic duo Galantis, Brighton-based production team Biffco and New Zealand’s Grammy-winning songwriter Joel Little, to name a few. The first track to emerge from the new album, ‘Starstruck’, arrived back in April last year, although work was clearly still underway on the rest of the album as a follow-up didn’t arrive until September, when the release of ‘Crave’ was accompanied by the news that a third album would arrive early in the new year. Announced late last year, the new album Night Call makes its arrival in stores on Friday (January 21). This week he returns with the third Years & Years album and the first of a new era with Alexander as its sole pilot. Years & Years’ Night Call: What You Need to Knowīeginning as a trio that became the subject of much hype following their 2015 debut album Communion in 2015, Years & Years began to shapeshift three years later when the unveiling of its 2018 follow-up Palo Santo arrived alongside the announcement that it would be the last to feature Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre Türkmen, who departed shortly afterwards, with Years & Years effectively becoming the solo project of frontman Olly Alexander.