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UK pop icon Will Young today releases his brand new album Lexicon, featuring the huge singles ‘All The Songs’ and ‘My Love’. His critically acclaimed seventh studio album is out now via Cooking Vinyl, available in digital and physical formats.
Stream / buy Lexicon here: https://WillYoung.lnk.to/LexiconPR
Lexicon isn’t what Young calls a “heart-pulling album“, of the kind he’s made in the past; in fact, it’s been filled with fun and freedom: “I revel in the music”. The joyfulness around the making of Lexicon lit a real spark of creativity for Young and in some ways the album provides a sense of new beginnings, of liberation and freedom. “They’re things that could have been in place a lot sooner but they wouldn’t have been able to because I hadn’t got there. It just takes some living. It’s living, it’s having a breakdown, it’s reassembling the pieces, literally, day by day. It’s really hard work,” Young explains. “But then once it’s reassembled, it’s strong.” That strength has allowed him to create a record in exactly the way he wanted to create it.
Lexicon was created partly by reuniting with the team behind his 2011 album Echoes, including producers and songwriters Richard X, Jim Eliot and Mima Stilwell, and also by teaming up with the likes of Eg White (Adele, Florence + The Machine), amazing new talent Boy Matthews (ZAYN, Duke Dumont), Danny Shah (David Guetta, Kylie Minogue) and Tom Walker. Young also teamed up with legendary British photographer and director Rankin for the release of the brilliant videos for both ‘All The Songs’ and ‘My Love’.
Watch the video for ‘All The Songs’
The 40 year old South London local hasn’t spent the time between albums twiddling his thumbs… Young has been working as an active and vocal campaigner for the LGBTQ movement (including the promotion of all-inclusive children’s books on Cbeebies), the second season of his hugely popular LGBT podcast Homo Sapiens, which he co-created and co-presents with filmmaker and friend Chris Sweeney, is now out and he also has a run of live dates booked across the summer, playing Tom Kerridge’s Pub In The Park events (a celebration of the best food and music the country has to offer), as well as shows at Gloucestershire’s Party At The Castle and Leicester Racecourse. In celebration of the release of Lexicon, Will has also confirmed a huge 21-date UK tour, kicking off this October. Starting at Torquay’s Princess Theatre and culminating at Blackpool’s Opera House, the tour includes a show at London’s historic Eventim Apollo. Tickets are on sale now for the following live dates;
23 June Bath Royal Victoria Park – Pub In The Park
6 July Leicester Racecourse
7 July Warwick St Nicholas Park – Pub In The Park
14 July Tunbridge Wells Dunorlan Park – Pub In The Park
15 September St Albans Verulamium Park – Pub In The Park
1 October Torquay Princess Theatre
2 October Plymouth Pavilions
4 October Birmingham Symphony Hall
5 October Ipswich Regent
6 October Southend Cliffs Pavilion
8 October Cardiff St Davids Hall
9 October Brighton Centre
11 October London Eventim Apollo
12 October Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
14 October Oxford New Theatre
15 October Portsmouth Guildhall
17 October Liverpool Philharmonic
18 October Manchester Apollo
19 October York Barbican
21 October Hull Bonus Arena
22 October Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
24 October Sheffield City Hall
25 October Glasgow Armadillo
26 October Edinburgh Usher Hall
28 October Newcastle City Hall
29 October Blackpool Opera House
Will Young has spent the last two decades at the forefront of pop after bursting onto the scene in 2002. His expansive career has culminated in four No.1 and two No.2 chart topping albums, two BRIT Awards and four UK No.1 singles. His new album Lexicon is out now via Cooking Vinyl.
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