Olly Alexander - Polari

This is pretty phenomenal:


Yes and it makes me nervous about what the BBC have in store for us this year, because he clearly has some good material other than Dizzy and he apparently submitted multiple songs for consideration, with Dizzy being “the unanimous choice.” :zombie:
 
Produced by Danny L Harle :disco:

So it absolutely must have been an option for last year

Danny L Harle has done the whole album. I wonder if it was ready to go then put on ice in May...

Anyway, the new song is absolutely his best work for ages but Archangel was nice too:



And this remix is a upgrade:

 
Ooh now I love Years & Years and Olly's stuff, so will spotify this later and report back

I listened to his 'Happy Place' podcast with Fearne Cotton the other week and he really is sweet and quite vulnerable yet resilient.

Shine and Eyes Shut remain MAGESTIC, as previously said though, I think he is much better as 'recording artist' than live
 
I absolutely love this now. You would have thought he would want to steer clear of another box though:

 
Do I need a trigger warning for GROTTY GROUTING before I click play on that video?
 
It's no Dizzy
I mean it's basically the same
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When We Kiss is wonderful

Although the inference that it would've been better for Eurovision is silly, imo.
 
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When We Kiss is definitely a better song than Dizzy. I think it is stronger melodically and it has more of an emotional pull.

Obviously at Eurovision most of those other issues would still be at play.
 


Decent, though not all the songs are really hitting.

My early favourite of the new stuff is Beautiful, which is a lovely Erasure-esque midtempo - and much better than the song with actual Vince Clarke involvement (Make Me A Man). I like Heal You too.
 
I really like this but I do like this very twinkly kind of pop music. 'Beautiful' is indeed very lovely.
 
That’s probably about right thought isn’t it? I wouldn’t put him as much of a fan base act (relatively), and there isn’t really any traction in the streaming world for him solo in years.
 
apparently this is the last album on his deal so maybe he'll go indie and it shouldn't be a barrier to working with Danny L Harle again. generally he needs better songwriters though.
 
OK I am loving Miss You So Much and several songs are really good actually
 
I was listening to him on a Podcast, think it was the FEARNE COTTON one (!) where he was really honest and said the label said he has one more album with them and they won't renew it, so basically they said he could do whatever he wanted and gave him no direction and very limited budget i presume, so he just did exactly what he wanted as they want to get rid of him and want him to chuck the last albam out, Bless him
 
Poor Olly Alexander (Years & Years) feat. Olly Alexander. It's a lovely album and considerably better than anything I've heard from him in the past.
 
I've not listened yet, and I love Years & Years stuff, I put him with one of the few male artists i'm a fan of (see also Will Young, Elton John, Drake, Justin T and Pink) i'll whack it on later down the gymnasium.
 

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