Yungblud on his new album: “It’s that thing in your stomach when you listen to Oasis, The Verve, Bowie, Suede or Madonna”
20.03.2024 - 14:55
/ nme.com
Yungblud has spoken to NME to give the exclusive lowdown on his “positive” new Britpop-inspired album – which he compared to the likes of Oasis, The Verve, Primal Scream, My Chemical Romance, David Bowie and Madonna. Watch our video interview with the artist below.The pop-punk provocateur was speaking to NME to launch his new festival, BludFest – set to take place in Milton Keynes this August.
Yungblud – real name Dominic Harrison – said that he’d recently been taking stock to mark “the end of a chapter” and was in the process of “going into new music, which I can’t wait for you to hear”.“I’m 27 next and for a character like me it’s either death or rebirth,” he said. “This point has been amazing up to now.
I’ll never lose what it’s about in terms of Yungblud and the soul of it – but musically, this next album is something I’ve been working on for two years and it’s a fucking adventure.“It’s a full concept that you can play from start to finish.”Elaborating on the follow-up to his 2022 self-titled third album, Yungblud said: “It’s been made in England. It’s been made in the North, and I flip the narrative where I’ve sung about darkness.
This album is the light. It’s all about getting through it; it’s positive.“It’s that thing in your stomach when you listen to Oasis, or The Verve, or Bowie, or Suede, or Madonna.
It makes me feel like I can get up today. It makes me feel like I’m invincible and that I can do anything – that’s what this new album sounds like.”Yungblud went on to namecheck Stone Roses and Amy Winehouse as influences, along with “everything that has fundamentally done work on my soul”.“Everything up to now has been about your heart and your head and making sure that I’m educated, that I use my voice,” he
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