Years And Years; All For You.

Olly Alexander and Years and Years have released another video to go along with the latest track from Palo Santo to be released as a single. The track is All For You and it sort off picks up from where the last one left off. This one is slightly darker and suggests more complex themes as the lead characters humanity in the robot city either slides towards duplication or replication. I have heard it said that copying is the highest form of flattery but a logical extension to copying is questioning the need for an original once a copy exists, with replication on a massive scale a logical conclusion. Would an artificial lifeform attempting to replicate an emotional response feel an emotional attachment to anything it could do for itself..
             Its a great track, Years And Years making it all seem so easy at this point. Creating music that resonates on different levels. Ollys voice continues to mature as does his mastery of lyrics. Realistically playfull and emotional at the same time. He makes me feel like a hand made man learning to appreciate emotions.
              The world of Palo Santo reminds me of the world of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs. I know they are musically worlds apart as are the decades the respective music was created in, yet I find myself loving both for almost the same reasons. Olly alexander is like the young David Bowie in so many ways. He is a multi talented performer, he sings and writes and plays his own music, he acts and moves like a professional dancer, with the amorphous ability of the self taught.
                He is a bright light shining in a dark old world.