Album reviews: Olly Alexander gets serious on his latest outing

This week, Olly Alexander’s Years & Years are back with a blend of the carefree and the reflective. Plus we review Dublin band Silverbacks’ second album, and Janis Ian announces her final record

Olly Alexander continues with the sprightly electro-pop that has made Years & Years such a success over the past seven years

Electro-pop: Years & Years, Night Call (Polydor)

Now the sole remaining member of what began as a trio, Olly Alexander continues with the sprightly electro-pop that has made Years & Years such a success over the past seven years. On the face of it, there is little difference between Night Call and previous albums – the music jumps and bumps, the arrangements swerve and sashay – but dig deeper and you can detect a sequence ...