Yeah, eclectic with something for everyone. :dance:

 

Funnily enough I was just listening to Markus Feehily's single earlier after Ros recommended a listen. Very different from his Westlife stuff.

Now thats got me excited :dance:

:w00t:

 

:cheer:

Thanks TT

 

I wonder if it was in the main paper.

No it wasn't Sunday. There was a little bit more of that :

 

He also insists that the new music isn’t influenced by anything that is currently in the charts.

 

“I don’t really listen to music that’s out there while I’m writing,” he says.

 

“I don’t want to be influenced. It’s really easy to be, and then it doesn’t seem so honest. I think that’s then unfair on an audience.

 

“I think they know it as well!

 

Thanks for the reviews TT. Really can't wait to hear the rest of the album. :yahoo:

 

Thanks for the bit I missed munchkin. I love how will does his own thing and doesn't look to emulate current trends.

Attitude magazine

 

7/10

 

We're always keen for the success of a Will Young album, since he and we go back a long time, but we were a tad thrown upon first hearing his comeback single Love Revolution. It's a foot stomping, Motown-esque track built upon Tomcrafts 2002 hit Loneliness, which finds Will in much the same territory as he himself was in that same year. Reader, we fretted. But the rest of the album tells a different story.

 

Elsewhere he's writing more honestly, about his own life and loves, following on the same musical path as his previous album Echoes, with that album's producer Jim Eliot (?) - whose work with Ellie Goulding also hints through. Will channels epic synth-pop of Hurts on Brave Man and Like A River, without sounding too try-hard, and both songs are among the most personal lyrically. Joy is a track that recalls Kylie All The Lovers -and with about as much lyrical content - but it's a fun pop song all the same. Thank You is a track that's got the feel of a modern Take That doing some old school Beatles, and it's on point for Will.

 

The album hangs together well, and it's a good solid offering from Will after a couple of years away, but it doesn't smash the mould from which we're used to hearing his music cast. Nevertheless it's become a regular fixture on the Attitude iPod, and we're very happy to see this great British male back on the scene alongside newbies like Sheeran and Smith.

Thanks Ros.

 

Solid review. It does sound as if they are only talking about the sampler. :unsure:

Thanks Ros, like you Gill, wonder if they are reviewing just the sampler they got sent seeing as they have quoted only the 4 songs

 

Love

Di

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Thank Ros its a good review :D

Wonder if Will's done any track reviews or acoustic performances to put online.

From someone who works in PR in Germany

 

http://www.klatsch-tratsch.de/2015/05/12/w...-zurueck/240993

 

New fantastic WILL YOUNG album will be out via Universal Music in Germany on July 10th! @will_young31 #willyoung

 

Sent May 12, 12:00

Edited May 12, 201510 yr by Sunday

Thanks Sunday.

 

Surely he'll go over there to do some promo before then. He hasn't released anything in Europe since the start of his career.

Thanks Sunday.

 

Surely he'll go over there to do some promo before then. He hasn't released anything in Europe since the start of his career.

 

Yes surely he'll have to promote it. Thanks Sunday.

There's an album review from Classic Pop Mag posted on Devoted Facebook page, giving the album 3 stars. Don't know how to bring it over.

Sounds as if they've started advertising the album on TV. :cheer:

 

It's funny how I listen to Will Young last night for the first time in ages and then see his new album advertised on tv today! @will_young31

Guardian Album Review.

 

Will Young: 85% Proof review – ballads of silvery regret and loss

3 / 5 stars

 

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/5/20/1432140394520/Will-Young-007.jpg

 

“I just want a lover,” sang Will Young on a song of that name in 2011. Four years and another break-up later, he’s recorded an answer song. “I don’t need a lover, don’t need another heartache to forgive and forget,” he broods on 85% Proof’s closing track, I Don’t Need a Lover – and this time he’s a long way from the slicked-back funk of the first song. This one is a piano ballad dominated by a vocal performance of silvery regret and loss. It’s a reminder of how good Young can be (and how much he has influenced Sam Smith). His strength as a vocalist is the thread stitching together an album that is otherwise pleasantly all over the shop. The detached synthiness of his last album is supplanted by get-happy R&B clappiness on Love Revolution, and Latinate hedonism on U Think I’m Sexy, but there’s also symphonic balladeering on the Gold and Brave Man – his first political songs, though their pro-individualism message is obfuscated by platitudes about “believing in me”. It’s an album of ups and downs, but secures Young’s position as an artist who’s good to have around.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/...per-cent-review

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Theres one in the times but you need a subscription they give 2 stars

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by Sunday

Must admit to feeling upset when I saw that from the Times but now having read it I believe the guy was always going to find fault. It's a very patronising review, nice guy but.....

 

If it's any consolation he also gave Brandon Flowers 2 *

Must admit to feeling upset when I saw that from the Times but now having read it I believe the guy was always going to find fault. It's a very patronising review, nice guy but.....

 

If it's any consolation he also gave Brandon Flowers 2 *

 

I wasnt thrilled either but you're right, it is pretty condescending. I'd suggest it's more his talent than not upsetting anyone that is the reason he's "still around." :rolleyes:

 

Will Hodgkinson

Published 1 minute ago

Rated to 2 stars

 

In 2002 Will Young won the first series of Pop Idol, the show that paved the way for The X Factor and inflicted Simon Cowell on to the national consciousness. Yet unlike the vast majority of talent show micro-stars who burn brightly on Saturday night televisions before fizzling out, Young has endured. He has done about as well, in fact, as a former Pop Idol contestant could reasonably hope to do.

 

Young has had three No 1 albums, won two Brit awards and sold more than eight million albums. In 2013 he starred in a West End run of Cabaret for which his gleefully malevolent performance as the Emcee garnered an Olivier nomination. He has put his name behind any number of charities. You won’t find many people with a bad word to say about him, which is one of the reasons why he has stayed in the game when so many of his fellow talent show alumni haven’t. And his new album is a concerted effort to make sure it stays that way.

 

85% Proof is a serviceable, sparky pop album of Radio 2-style accessibility: vaguely soulful with lots of piano and orchestral parts to give a sense of emotional swell and Young’s light and unremarkable but pleasantly tuneful voice singing words of love, pain and togetherness. It’s neither shiny and camp nor complex and deep and it falls into a light-entertainment slipstream heading straight towards Terry Wogan’s radio show.

 

“I’m a brave man, running through the rain, not scared to feel the pain,” Young tells us on Brave Man, which, with its backing singers, soaring strings and thunderous drums, recalls the Verve’s 1997 classic Lucky Man but without the overwhelming sense of loss.

He goes into full-on sad mode on Promise Me, which builds from quiet pangs of loneliness into a belting dance anthem. With the right number of flaming sambucas inside you on a Mediterranean holiday this could sound meaningful, but on a cold, grey morning has no impact whatsoever.

 

The most notable thing about 85% Proof is that it doesn’t seem like a modern piece at all, more like an easy listening album by a crooner from decades past; one that you might pick up in a charity shop. In fact, Young is oddly reminiscent of Leo Sayer. Blue is not so different from the curly-haired one’s You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. I Don’t Need a Lover is a cousin of Sayer’s lonesome classic When I Need You, but not as good. Young is one of pop’s nice guys, but this paean to inoffensiveness is not his finest hour. (Out Mon, Island)

 

Thanks Ros.

 

This One little miss found is short and sweet.

 

From today's Daily Star

 

WILL YOUNG / 85% Proof

***

 

" The original OG has become a kick boxer since he left planet pop, but mercifully he's remembered a good tune. Slow brooding tracks including Like A River are more grown up and a refreshing sign this artist is no longer desperate to mimic other chart hits. "

Thanks Ros and Gill for Review up-dates, like the Star review, as for the TImes review..... totally condescending :angry: