Yungblud announces new album "IDOLS" set for release on the 20th of June. | Album Reviews & Releases

Yungblud surprised fans with the social media announcement today for the release date of his new album “IDOLS“.

“IDOLS” makes up the first part of a double album, with the release date of part two yet to be announced.

This is Yungblud’s fourth studio album. His last two albums went to number one in the UK and broke into the Billboard Hot 100. His back catalogue has accumulated an astonishing 6 billion streams globally.

Idols boasts 12 new tracks and is Yungblud’s most ambitious album yet. The decision to produce the album just a few miles from where he grew up was made to minimise distractions during the process.

Dom stated “I wanted to make a project that didn’t focus on singles or anything else except feeling and world-building… A project with no limitations.”

“IDOLS” is produced by Matt Schwartz with Bob Bradley on additional production and guitarist Adam Warrington.

On ‘IDOLS’, Yungblud explores the theme of hero-worship; how we look to others for validation, often putting others’ lives on a pedestal at the expense of the richness of our own experiences. Yungblud says, “We turn to others for an identity before turning to ourselves. Self-belief, self-reclamation, self-evolution and change. As we grow up, we lose our belief in magic and mystery. We begin to rationalise everything; our cage walls build up.”

He added, “We compare ourselves to 15 different people before we’ve even had our breakfast”.

Yungblud describes the album as, “A love letter to self-reclamation… to rock music… [and] to life; in all it’s f*cking madness.”

News of the album follows the release of a bold new single, ‘Lovesick Lullaby’, which came out on Friday 25th April alongside a stylish music video shot by Charlie Sarsfield. To celebrate, Yungblud spent the evening behind the bar at the iconic Hawley Arms in London, serving drinks to a packed crowd. ‘Lovesick Lullaby’ marks Yungblud’s second single since his return in March with the nine-minute, six-second epic ‘Hello Heaven, Hello,’ which debuted as Jack Saunders’ Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1.

At his surprise Scala gig last month, the artist treated fans to unreleased tracks from the album. Introducing “Zombie”, he revealed, “This song was written initially about my grandmother going through serious injury and trauma. It’s about the feeling of deterioration and ugliness – shutting the world and the people we love out, out of the fear of becoming a burden or an embarrassment.”

We may hear a full run through at this year’s Bludfest as the album is released the day before the festival.
Speaking about his motivation behind the festival and its affordable price point, Yungblud explained, “It needed to represent a new idea and a new generation. Gigs at the minute are extortionately expensive”.

This year is shaping up to be a very exciting year for Yungblud and his fans. We’re really looking forward to the new album release and also Bludfest!

‘Idols’, the album by Yungblud, is out on 20th June via Locomotion/Island Records.

‘Idols’ will be available across several formats, including four varieties of special edition vinyl.

‘Idols’ full tracklisting: