Years & Years Nominated For The Brits Critics' Choice Award

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Years & Years continue to gain tastemaker support going into 2015, featuring on the BRITs Critics' Choice shortlist, the 2015: Observer Critics' Tips list and the MTV Brand New 2015 shortlist.

Newly signed Franco-Cuban twins Ibeyi have also topped the 2015: Observer Critics' Tips list whilst Saint Raymond joins Years & Years on the MTV Brand New 2015 shortlist.

Bassist Mikey Goldsworthy and synth player Emre Turkmen first started what would eventually become elegant dance-pop practitioners Years & Years, they were missing a vocalist. As chance would have it Goldsworthy overheard the dulcet tones of actor Olly Alexander (you’ll recognise him from Skins and Stuart Murdoch’s film God Help the Girl) warbling his way through the Fugees’ Killing Me Softly in a friend’s shower and asked him to join the band. The earwigging paid off because it’s Alexander’s gorgeous, featherlight vocals that have dominated their output so far; from the keening Traps and clap-heavy Real (both released via respected French label Kitsuné) to the yearning, Disclosure-esque swirl of this summer’s bouncy Take Shelter and 90s house-indebted new single Desire. Now signed to Polydor, and with a nomination for the Brits Critics’ Choice under their belts, catchy, soulful dance pop with an undercurrent of melancholia is in very safe hands indeed. MC!