Listen: Years & Years – “Eyes Shut”
20 February 2014, 16:45
| Written by
Shea Corrigan
London soul-pop trio Years & Years take it down a few relative notches with “Eyes Shut”, the b-side to the excellently, aggressively upbeat “Real”.
From the old school downtempo RnB backbeat through to the ambient interlude and synth-filled crescendo – and with Olly Alexander’s elegiac croon center stage – Years & Years continue to define their place in the soul-saturated London electro-pop landscape.
Years & Years released their second EP Real on 17 February on Kitsuné and available through iTunes, featuring the eponymous single, a handful of remixes and its equal and opposite companion, “Eyes Shut”.
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