Album Review: YUNGBLUD – Weird!

It says much about both Dominic Har­rison’s inabil­i­ty to sit still and his over­whelm­ing desire to suc­ceed that, even in a year in which bands have spo­ken about their album releas­es feel­ing like a non-event rather than a jump­ing-off point for their next chap­ters, his pres­ence as YUNG­BLUD has at times felt almost omni. And every­thing he’s done has been big, loud and colour­ful. He was a giant robot in the video for his guest spot on Bring Me The Hori­zon​’s Obey. He’s just teamed up with alt.rap super­star Machine Gun Kel­ly. Every video he’s dropped — cot­ton can­dy, straw­ber­ry lip­stick — has gone mas­sive and felt notably at odds with the iron grey mis­ery into which they’ve been released, while his ded­i­ca­tion to cre­at­ing a com­mu­ni­ty with hi...