YUNGBLUD
Idols II
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Who could have imagined the artist behind ‘Machine Gun (F**k The NRA)’ penning a nine-minute strings-fuelled epic like ‘Hello Heaven, Hello’, which NME named one of the best songs of 2025? ‘Idols Pt. 1’ and ‘Ghosts’ unashamedly channel the guitar work of U2’s The Edge, while ‘Zombie’ – the album’s biggest track – towers like a skyscraper in his discography. For fans of his more colloquial early material, ‘Lovesick Lullaby’ bridges the gap with a ‘Parklife’-esque take on bright Brit-rock.
Although Yungblud deliberately wears his influences on his sleeve, the lyrical crux of ‘Idols’ explores the exact opposite. Harrison reminds himself “All you are is a self-fulfilling prophecy / The production of your own temptation” on ‘Supermoon’, the conclusion to part one. It completes his journey of “self-reclamation”, realising his mind – not the Freddie Mercury posters on his walls – holds the answers to his problems. ‘Idols II’, he warned, “plummets you back down to earth”. So what does life after enlightenment look like for Yungblud?
Exactly where the story left off, with the wispy, fragile opening of ‘I Need You (To Make The World Seen Fine)’: “Pictures of idols / Rise up and fall / Wish you knew it all”. On ‘Idols II’, two of its seven tracks directly revisit songs from part one, including a ’90s makeover of ‘Zombie’ that features The Smashing Pumpkins and their colossal wall of sound. The other, ‘War Pt. II’, flips Harrison’s identity crisis on ‘War’ into the blossoming of a new flower (“Are you feeling inspired? / Are you having the best time of your life?”) in the spirit of ‘Dakota’-era Stereophonics plus orchestral might.