Brit-pop boy-band McFly have announced their first album in almost 10 years, entitled ‘Young Dumb Thrills’. Today, they revealed details of the upcoming record, and the lead single ‘Happiness’ which will be released this Thursday, 30th July.
On social media, the band posted a picture which is most likely the cover art for the single, along with the caption, “There’s no going back now… ‘Happiness’ will be the first single from our brand new album ‘Young Dumb Thrills’. Listen to Happiness and pre-order the album from Thursday the 30th July!”
There’s no going back now… ‘Happiness’ will be the first single from our brand new album “Young Dumb Thrills”
Listen to Happiness and pre-order the album from Thursday the 30th July!#GalaxyDefenders get ready!
https://t.co/QEBRk4do5u pic.twitter.com/UyrGaCnC7f
— mcfly (@mcflymusic) July 27, 2020
Despite this official announcement being revealed today, there have been numerous hints in the past week, including a video posted yesterday documenting the creation of the album. The news has excited fans after the band spent a long period of time focussing on their own paths – frontman Tom Fletcher has written numerous children’s books while raising his own children with wife and author Giovanna Fletcher. Both guitarist Danny Jones and drummer Harry Judd also have children, and have worked on various projects, while bassist Dougie Poynter formed new band, INK, on 2018.
We’ve kept you waiting long enough… Check the @mcflymusic socials tomorrow morning for a special announcement pic.twitter.com/p2Eoyl9o8M — mcfly (@mcflymusic) July 26, 2020
After their long hiatus from McFly, the band signed a record deal with BMG at the beginning of July, and spoke to BBC about their reunion and new music. Fletcher told them, “There was a strong possibility McFly would never happen again. We genuinely didn’t know how to get back on track.” But, after many years, the band’s manager Matt Fletcher booked the reunion gig at London’s O2, which took place in November 2019. Since then, McFly has been working together non-stop to release ‘The Lost Songs’ and create ‘Young Dumb Thrills’.
‘Happiness’ is the comeback single for McFly, described by the BBC as “an intoxicatingly upbeat crowd-pleaser” and by the band as having a “festival vibe”. Using a sample of a riff from an unnamed South American artist, the song is revealing itself to be a hit with everyone who hears it.
Tom Fletcher looked back on the journey he and the other McFly members have taken, saying, “We’ve spent our whole adult lives being called Tom McFly or Danny from McFly – and part of you desperately wants to justify that that doesn’t define who you are. But the truth is McFly totally defines who we are. It’s in our DNA.”
