Communion
The British dance pop trio Years & Years’ debut album marries thematic precision with the broad kinetics of anthemic pop songwriting, mingling self-loathing and doubt with a redemptive, near-bloody-minded push to prettiness and uplift.
Years & Years aren’t pioneers, but working with what they have, they’ve delivered a collection of pop tunes that should light up 2015.
It’s fine swapping authenticity for state-of-the-art pop but the band need to still that bleating heart…
The winners of this year’s BBC Sound of … poll seem not to have an original idea in their heads – but that’s hardly likely to hold them back
Although the synth-pop trio lack invention, they are extremely effective, says Helen Brown