Yungblud has shared his ideas on his upcoming Britpop-inspired album, saying he has “by no means felt extra clear or been extra proud to face by something” he has made.
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On Friday (March 14), he shall be releasing a nine-minute single titled ‘Hi there Heaven, Hi there’ subsequent week. The Doncaster-born musician has been teasing a brand new period lately. His bio on the web page now reads the identical, and the one different factor listed is a hyperlink to his web site, which supplies followers the choice to enroll in updates.
Now, Yungblud has shared his ideas on his subsequent album – saying he has by no means been extra proud to face by something he has made earlier than.
“4 years within the making and all of it begins Tuesday,” the put up begins. “I’m comfortable, wholesome, nervous, terrified all on the similar time, however I’ve by no means felt extra clear or been extra proud to face by something I’ve ever made. we did precisely what we got down to do. this album is an journey and I need you to shut your eyes and get misplaced in all 9 minutes and 6 seconds of its opening.”
Again in December, Yungblud, actual title Dominic Harrison, spoke to NME to share extra particulars concerning the tasks within the works – solely asserting that he had a “double album” on the way in which.
“The brand new album centres across the concept of self-love and self-reclamation that enables individuals to really feel seen, and emit this gentle. You may be seen for who you really are, regardless of the place you’re from or what you imagine… That’s what I wanted to jot down an album about,” he stated.
Final March he spoke to NME to present the lowdown on his subsequent album, calling it Britpop-inspired. He named the likes of Oasis, The Verve, Primal Scream, My Chemical Romance, David Bowie and Madonna as inspirations.
Harrison famous that the mantra of the file could be “Come collectively, look one another within the eye, be human”, as opposed saying “Fuck you, that is the world we’ve obtained to get to”.
Doubling down on the standing of the file as a concrete idea album, he went on: “It’s a ’Tommy’, it’s a ‘Quadrophenia’ [The Who]. It’s ‘A Night time At The Opera’ [Queen]. It’s a ‘Black Parade’ [My Chemical Romance]. It’s an ‘City Hymns’. It’s a factor that’s supposed to be listened to from begin to end, and it’s pushed me tougher and made me intestine myself tougher than something earlier than.
“We locked ourselves in a studio in Leeds and simply felt. We shut the world out as a substitute of asking, ‘What’s popping on this?’ ‘What’s the state of artwork’ or no matter. Fuck that. Might this album have been written 50 years in the past? Might this album be written in 50 years time? Fucking every little thing else. It simply is.”
In different Yungblud-related information, the second instalment of his personal competition, Bludfest, will happen this summer time and see appearances from Chase Atlantic, Denzel Curry, Blackbear and former NME Cowl stars Rachel Chinouriri and Peach PRC. Go to right here for tickets to Bludfest 2025.