The forthcoming album "Light It Up" – out on 9 August – is Will Young's return to "joyous pop". The 10-track collection sees the acclaimed singer-songwriter team up with new collaborators, pHD, the Scandinavian pop production/writing duo who has worked with Little Mix. He also reunites with Andy Cato of Groove Armada and long-term writing partners Jim and Mima Elliot (who worked on Will's defining album, "Echoes").

 

1. Falling Deep

2. Light It Up

3. Feels Just Like A Win

4. Midnight

5. Me Without You

6. The Worst

7. No Man's Land

8. Talk About It

9. Everything But You

10. I Won't Let You Down

 

Lead Single: "Falling Deep"

 

 

Love this lead single and the album being 10 tracks isn't bad but making people wait nearly 4 months for said 10 track album is pretty ridiculous 

Oh, I'm so excited for this!

I'm excited!

wish it was longer but i have pre-ordered the CD 

Don't like it 

"Midnight" drops this Friday 

 

On 6/3/2024 at 11:59 PM, Yog said:

"Midnight" drops this Friday 

 

Oh this one is much better than the last single  

 

but not me just finding out he released an acoustic version of "Falling Deep" on Youtube weeks ago

(I've always preferred acoustic versions of his songs to the official ones tbh - still rewatch those Christmas performances back then from time to time)

8 hours ago, HealerKirby said:

Oh this one is much better than the last single  

That's good to know 

Midnight >>>>>>>> Falling Deep

 

Light It Up is cute.

 

But Midnight and Falling Deep were miles better.

3 hours ago, TheseThingsHappen said:

Light It Up is cute.

 

But Midnight and Falling Deep were miles better.

It's giving old school WY essentially his first two albums, it's enjoyable but kind disjointed compared to the last two tracks 

I like this, much better pop album than Lexicon and will definitely saving the best tracks for the full release..

 

Feels Just Like A Win
Me Without You
Talk About It (this needs to be an single, bop) 
Everything But You 
I Won't Let You Down 

Are the highlights.
 

Edited August 9, 20241 yr by Yog

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Radical Pessimism said:

 

 

 

 

This album is pretty damn good but too short 

On 8/10/2024 at 1:56 AM, Yog said:

This album is pretty damn good but too short 

It's my favorite album of this year so far, and I like most of the songs,

but i must say that the title track doesn't fit the album. Thoughts? 

22 minutes ago, Radical Pessimism said:

It's my favorite album of this year so far, and I like most of the songs,

but i must say that the title track doesn't fit the album. Thoughts? 

It really doesn't but that's only negative about the album 

#2 new in UK mids 

I've loved Will's last few albums but I'm really struggling to connect with anything this time. 

Maybe it's the absence of Richard X...

3 hours ago, mickeyderon said:

I've loved Will's last few albums but I'm really struggling to connect with anything this time. 

Maybe it's the absence of Richard X...

I can understand, Richard X truly understands what an Will Young should sound like tbh, I think Will just wanted to stretch his artistic visions hence the switch up.

I only liked Echoes from him, should I even bother with this one?

1 hour ago, NoAngelus said:

I only liked Echoes from him, should I even bother with this one?

Yes, it's a pretty solid pop record tbh just not good as echoes but better than Lexicon 

14 hours ago, Yog said:

I can understand, Richard X truly understands what an Will Young should sound like tbh, I think Will just wanted to stretch his artistic visions hence the switch up.

Yeah it's clear he wanted to work with other producers, I feel there are some which would be more suited. As an example think someone like Stuart Price or James Ford would have done a great job.