Overview
- The album arrived on January 16, three weeks ahead of its planned February 6 release after a previous delay to avoid clashing with a Taylor Swift rollout.
- Britpop is Williams’s first collection of all-new material since 2016 and is framed as the record he wished he had made in the mid-1990s.
- Reviews published today describe a deliberately derivative 1990s pastiche that showcases his theatrical persona and draws mixed assessments of the songwriting.
- Notable credits include Tony Iommi on opener “Rocket,” Chris Martin and Joy Huerta on “Human,” and a Gary Barlow co-write on “Morrissey.”
- Williams’s Long 90s tour is scheduled to start on February 4 at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, where he intends to perform the new album in full.