YUNGBLUD has announced a run of ‘Up Close & Personal’ record store dates across the UK, celebrating the release of new album IDOLS out 20th June 2025.
He will be playing songs off the album stripped back and sharing stories about how the songs were made. Tickets / bundles will be on sale Thursday 29th May at 11am here.
The 12-track offering, recorded in Leeds, is Yungblud’s most ambitious yet. The decision to produce the album just a few miles from where he grew up was made to minimise distractions during the process. Yungblud said “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’ makes up the first part of a double album, with the release date of part two yet to be announced.
Yungblud was joined in the process by producer Matti Schwartz, Bob Bradley on additional production, and guitarist Adam Warrington. ‘Idols’ will be available across a number of formats, including four varieties of special edition vinyl.
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.
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