Yungblud has shared his thoughts on his upcoming Britpop-inspired album, saying he has “never felt more clear or been more proud to stand by anything” he has made.
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On Friday (March 14), he will be releasing a nine-minute single titled ‘Hello Heaven, Hello’ next week. The Doncaster-born musician has been teasing a new era recently. His bio on the page now reads the same, and the only other thing listed is a link to his website, which gives fans the option to sign up for updates.
Now, Yungblud has shared his thoughts on his next album – saying he has never been more proud to stand by anything he has made before.
“4 years in the making and it all begins Tuesday,” the post starts. “I’m happy, healthy, nervous, terrified all at the same time, but I have never felt more clear or been more proud to stand by anything I have ever made. we did exactly what we set out to do. this album is an adventure and I want you to close your eyes and get lost in all nine minutes and six seconds of its opening.”
Back in December, Yungblud, real name Dominic Harrison, spoke to NME to share more details about the projects in the works – exclusively announcing that he had a “double album” on the way.
“The new album centres around the idea of self-love and self-reclamation that allows people to feel seen, and emit this light. You can be seen for who you truly are, no matter where you’re from or what you believe… That’s what I needed to write an album about,” he said.
Last March he spoke to NME to give the lowdown on his next album, calling it Britpop-inspired. He named the likes of Oasis, The Verve, Primal Scream, My Chemical Romance, David Bowie and Madonna as inspirations.
Harrison noted that the mantra of the record would be “Come together, look each other in the eye, be human”, as opposed saying “Fuck you, this is the world we’ve got to get to”.
Doubling down on the status of the record as a concrete concept album, he went on: “It’s a ’Tommy’, it’s a ‘Quadrophenia’ [The Who]. It’s ‘A Night At The Opera’ [Queen]. It’s a ‘Black Parade’ [My Chemical Romance]. It’s an ‘Urban Hymns’. It’s a thing that’s intended to be listened to from start to finish, and it’s pushed me harder and made me gut myself harder than anything before.
“We locked ourselves in a studio in Leeds and just felt. We shut the world out instead of asking, ‘What’s popping on this?’ ‘What’s the state of art’ or whatever. Fuck that. Could this album have been written 50 years ago? Could this album be written in 50 years time? Fucking everything else. It just is.”
In other Yungblud-related news, the second instalment of his own festival, Bludfest, will take place this summer and see appearances from Chase Atlantic, Denzel Curry, Blackbear and former NME Cover stars Rachel Chinouriri and Peach PRC. Visit here for tickets to Bludfest 2025.