Years & Years havenโt released a single since Olly Alexander debuted as a solo artist with โNight Call.โ

Years & Years, musician and actor Olly Alexanderโs solo pop act, is no stranger to heartbreak in all of its forms. Itโs that knowledge that prepared him for his performance on DJ Regardโs current hit, โHallucination,โ a bouncy club track in which the vocalist warns off chronic heartbreakers.
Years & Years sternly tells his target, โDonโt attempt to dazzle me, I know youโre trying to harm me again / You appear like a vision, but now Iโm begininโ to see through the haze / Donโt be so phony, oh, oh (Oh) / Your love is a hallucination,โ letting him know heโs on to his shenanigans.
Night Call, the latest Years & Years record and Alexanderโs first full-length CD since the pop duo transitioned from a quartet to a solo act, unwittingly expands on the lyrical and conceptual realm of โHallucination.โ The album, which was mostly influenced by dance musicโs escapism, looked at desire through the prism of taking control rather than allowing oneself to be heartbroken.
โIn this โ in the music โ my shadow self emerges. โIโve been writing a lot of love songs where I felt absolutely stomped and, like, I just wasnโt interested in writing songs like that,โ Alexander said of the album to NPR. โI didnโt fall in love like that anymore, and there was a lot of pressure in relationships when I met someone who was so โ it was like, what am I going to be?โ What are your plans for the future? โHow are we going to get through this?โ says the narrator.
โI really wanted to just play around with those expectations and write songs where I tried to emphasize having fun in the studio, just portraying this persona who wasnโt scared to be a little bit out there,โ he continued.
Stream or purchaseย Night Call.