20 Juin YUNGBLUD – Idols (EN)
YUNGBLUD makes his powerful return with Idols, his fourth album. A return to his roots, to the essentials, to that inner urgency that has always driven him.
After the international success of his previous record YUNGBLUD, which topped the charts around the world, Dominic Richard Harrison took a step back. He observed. He healed a little. Then he came back.
On March 18th 2025, a single photo posted on his social media set the tone — or rather, the absence of tone: a sober, almost silent, black-and-white image revealing a transformed silhouette. More mature. More vulnerable. The track Hello Heaven, Hello, the album’s first single, accompanied the image — a song that breaks the rules of the music industry.
Idols is, as he puts it, an “honest” album. Honest in its pain, and in its softness too. YUNGBLUD explores solitude, anger, faith, love, and loss. He returns to his earliest influences — alternative rock, grunge, and sentimental punk — with a more refined and introspective energy. Less provocation, more confession. This album isn’t YUNGBLUD — it’s Dom, through YUNGBLUD.
Each track resonates like an open letter to his generation. Some songs make you want to scream the choruses in a stadium. Others whisper secrets you thought only you carried. There’s fire, but there are also tears. There’s life — in its rawest form.
With Idols, YUNGBLUD isn’t trying to please. He’s trying to speak the truth. And he does so with disarming intensity.
Every song flows into the next, a continuation of what came before. Idols opens gently, with an introduction in which Dom simply lays bare everything that went into making the album.
Musically, YUNGBLUD returns to his core: visceral rock energy, raw guitars, a voice always on the edge of breaking. But there’s more. More texture. More maturity. YUNGBLUD‘s album is shaped by bold, embraced influences — Bowie, Blur, Queen, Oasis, Duran Duran — reimagined through a modern sensitivity and a near-theatrical sense of staging. Some songs feel like film scores, so cinematic are the arrangements. There’s a clear will to narrate, to evolve, to breathe. A coherence in every track.
The beating heart of the record lies in a constant tension between rage and vulnerability. The anger we once heard in Hope for the Underrated Youth is still there — but now it’s more controlled, sometimes channelled through strings, sometimes through stripped-back piano. Songs like Idols – Part 1 pay tribute to lifelong heroes while asserting a distinct voice. Zombie is perhaps the most emotional track on the album — a ballad about addiction and loss, sung like a farewell letter.
Other tracks, like Change or Ghosts reveal a new Dom, who enjoys exploring, playing, evolving. You hear echoes of 70s and 80s British rock, but also a desire to lead the audience into a collective trance. GHOSTS is made for the stage: a Freddie Mercury-like build-up, written to be screamed by thousands of voices. It’s no accident: Idols is also an album made for live shows, designed for Bludfest and the upcoming tour.
But it’s in the last minutes of the album that the emotion reaches its peak. Idols – Part 2 and Supermoon offer a gentle exit, a tender and melodic introspection, between a piano ballad and rock opera. The voice becomes rounder, calmer. More grown-up. We leave the turmoil for acceptance.
The album ends as it began: with orchestral ambition, with the breath of a rock opera. Supermoon is grand without being pretentious. The arrangements are expansive, the vocals soar, the guitars rise. Somewhere between Queen and Placebo. It’s a goodbye song — but not a final one. One last crescendo, like a promise: even in the dark, there will always be a light.
Idols doesn’t try to be perfect. It’s a raw album — it screams, it dares, it weeps, it grabs you by the gut. It carries that rare feeling of timelessness. YUNGBLUD offers a deeply personal piece of work, shaped like a staged diary — a blend of confession and love letter to his influences. Idols is not just an album. It’s a full-fledged body of work with true continuity. It marks a turning point in his career: the moment he stops hiding behind colors to fully embrace his inner light — however unstable it may be.
An album that vibrates, bleeds, disturbs, and liberates. It doesn’t seek to please, but to speak. And that’s exactly what makes it so precious. YUNGBLUD may never have been closer to himself. And paradoxically, never so universal.
TRACKLIST :
Hello Heaven
Idols Pt.1
Lovesick Lullaby
Zombie
The Greatest Parade
Change
Monday Murder
Ghosts
Fire
War
Idols Pt.2
Supermoon
Editor’s note : 10/10
His favourite titles : Change , Zombie , War
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