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Will Young, 'Echoes'

 

 

I haven't even finished listening to a full four songs, and I'm already obsessed! Will Young just released ten of his album's tracks in their entirety on his Facebook! They'll be available until his brand new album, Echoes, is released Monday!

 

The album is so perfect! It's electro-disco pop heaven! Young's sultry voice coupled with seductively delicious tones. Boy George comes to mind every time I listen to a song. I suppose the 80s aesthetic is to blame for that.

 

So love that Bev thanks

the bit in italics i could do without :puke2:

 

did you see Will is back at 5 on Amazon :blink:

 

 

Someone posted on Will's face book page that they had downloaded Echoes from German Itunes.

 

 

Someone posted on Will's face book page that they had downloaded Echoes from German Itunes.

 

Edited August 19, 201113 yr by phil3579

He has given another tack to Digital spy! It's Happy now!

 

Exclusive: Will Young unveils 'Echoes' album track about 'growing up'

 

Will Young has unveiled a track from his new album Echoes exclusively on Digital Spy.

 

The singer describes the song, called 'Happy Now', as one about accepting yourself and embracing the wisdom that comes with age.

 

"It's about not hanging on to things that have happened, because I think if you do it shows in your demeanour," he said.

 

"It's about releasing that and just feeling quite content being in my 30s and thinking, 'Actually, it's okay, I don't mind the wrinkles; I'll forego the wrinkles for some wisdom!'"

 

The track is lifted from Young's fifth studio album Echoes, which is out on August 22 alongside his new single 'Jealousy'.

 

The star recently admitted that he was "quietly competitive" about his pop career.

 

Listen to 'Happy Now' below:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a33...growing-up.html

Guardian 4*

 

 

Will Young: Echoes – review(RCA)

 

Caroline Sullivan

 

Incredibly, it's been nearly 10 years since Will Young won Pop Idol, since which he's become a reliable source of decent chart pop. So his decision to enlist producer Richard X and dabble with synths on his fifth album feels like a legitimate move rather than a clutching-at-straws gesture, and he carries it off successfully. The songs are downtempo and spacious, and Young's vocals have a morning-afterish quality that suits him very well – though he occasionally lets loose an affected falsetto he'd have been better keeping to himself. There's something of the Pet Shop Boys' elegant restraint in Losing Myself, and Personal Thunder's lounge-pop encroaches on George Michael territory, but Young stamps his identity on them with vocals that convey the disenchantment of a rich young gay man who's just taken a long look at himself in the mirror. "Classy" is the word that comes to mind all the way through these 13 songs

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/1...g-echoes-review

 

Apparently 4* is the highest the Guardian ever give. They gave the same star rating to Adele.

Edited August 19, 201113 yr by truly talented

Irish Itunes Echoes #6

 

Jealousy #56

 

Echoes seems to have been added to a lot of European itunes. DSurely this means this is the album Will will promote abroad.

Edited August 19, 201113 yr by truly talented

Just looking again at Irish Itunes. Echoes is actually at #4 as their is an ep & compilation above him.

Irish Itunes Echoes #6

 

Jealousy #56

 

Echoes seems to have been added to a lot of European itunes. Surely this means this is the album Will will promote abroad.

Argh!!!! so excited by that news Gill! :cheer: Yes..he will promote abroad i think..I'm sure thats why he's tied up until the end of next year! :yahoo:

Somone on Twitter posted that thier Album arrived from Amazon today! :o I hope Play are on the ball like they seem to be!

 

I can't express how excited Iam by all of this and by the coming year!!. :w00t:

 

This morning's fav tweet goes to.. :lol:

davidlimonlineDavid Lim

#np 'I Just Want A Lover' by Will Young. Can we give this queen the sash and flowers for pop comeback of the year already?

Edited August 19, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

Irish Itunes Jealousy #47

 

UK Itunes Echoes #48

Edited August 19, 201113 yr by truly talented

Has this leaked or something? How have so many heard it already?!

Irish Itunes Jealousy #47

 

UK Itunes Echoes #48

Ooh! :dance:

Gill is Echoes is available to buy on Uk Itunes Midnight Sunday night?

Has this leaked or something? How have so many heard it already?!

Will streamed most of the album on his face book page last night..it's brilliant! :dance:

 

Here..

http://www.facebook.com/willyoung

He has given another tack to Digital spy! It's Happy now!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a33...growing-up.html

 

Loved reading that Bev aw :wub:

so theres only 2 tracks that have not been made available to gbp, good things is i think, going by the clips, is going to be my fave, and i so want it as a single :dance:

the 2 tracks, possibly singles 2 and 3 ???

 

Somone on Twitter posted that thier Album arrived from Amazon today! I hope Play are on the ball like they seem to be!

* sat drooling by my letterbox* so hope we get them today :w00t:

 

Thanks Gill for the Guardian review, i dont think the songs are downtempo :unsure:

 

"Classy"

it sure is

 

Just had post, no Echoes today boo hoo :wacko:

Edited August 19, 201113 yr by phil3579

Ooh! :dance:

Gill is Echoes is available to buy on Uk Itunes Midnight Sunday night?

 

Not sure if it's midnight Saturday or Sunday. Up to 42 now.

 

Irish Itunes Jealousy #47

 

 

jealousy Irish iTunes now #43

 

 

Not sure if it's midnight Saturday or Sunday. Up to 42 now.

 

Thats brilliant up you go Will.

 

is Jealousy ready to download just after midnight early Sunday am

and Echoes ready just after midnight monday early mon am

god am i making any sense :rolleyes:

Thats brilliant up you go Will.

 

is Jealousy ready to download just after midnight early Sunday am

and Echoes ready just after midnight monday early mon am

god am i making any sense :rolleyes:

Yes that's right Phil

Yes that's right Phil

 

:lol: glad someone could understand what i was trying to say :lol:

Thanks Sunday

Have we seen this review from the London evening standard

 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/articl...nd-wretch-32.do

WILL YOUNG

Echoes

(RCA)

****

Ten years after a youthful Will Young sang Blame It on the Boogie to an underwhelmed Simon Cowell, the original and best Pop Idol is still riding high. Echoes, his fifth studio album in a career spawning more than eight million record sales, will be followed by a 23-date UK tour.

 

Here, the 32-year-old (pictured) teams up with in-demand producer Richard X (MIA, Goldfrapp), who brings a playful, dancey quality to the record - a welcome change from the schmaltzy ballads that have characterised too much of Young's output.

 

Lead single Jealousy is a case in point. Pounding piano and bass propel paranoid lyrics about love-gone-bad: even Young's voice - still the greatest discovery of Cowell's talent shows - sounds stronger and surer. Come On takes Coldplay's anthemic beats to the dancefloor, while Losing Myself adds Eighties synths to the mix.

 

Elsewhere, Silent Valentine spends its first two minutes pretending to be an anaemic ballad, before exploding into a glorious pop sing-along.

 

Not everything works. Lie Next to Me's lumbering backing and little-boy-lost lyrics are wearying.

 

But when they're followed by the strutting funk of I Just Want a Lover all is forgiven.

 

There are a few cosier moments later on, presumably to please the old faithful, but Echoes is a daring musical makeover that will win Young many new fans. Myself being one.

RICK PEARSON

 

Edited August 19, 201113 yr by Sunday