Lexicon (Will Young album)

The album has been said to reunite the team who executive produced his 2011 studio album Echoes. Furthermore, the album reunites him with Richard X, who produced his 2011 single "Jealousy", and Eg White, who co-wrote his 2003 single "Leave Right Now". Additionally, it is said to feature a track written by BRIT-award-winning singer-songwriter Tom Walker.{{cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/107493-will-young-announces-comeback-album/|title=Will Young announces comeback album|date=22 March 2019|website=The List}}

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The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. Commenting on Young's decision to release Lexicon with Cooking Vinyl, Elizabeth Aubrey wrote in the review for Evening Standard: "The freedom it has brought certainly suits him. Lexicon has darker, electronic underpinning than anything he’s done before [...] The project sees Young collaborating with other songwriters for the first time since his third album. He has boldly overhauled his sound and stayed true to his pop roots." musicOMH editor Helen Clarke described Lexicon as "a record for wallowing in after a break-up. It’s melodramatic [...] but it mostly feels a bit filler-y. Luckily for him, in the days of streaming and downloads, those opening tracks will be plenty to re-stoke the public’s love of Will Young, and hopefully provide a grounding for his next record. Electro Will is in there somewhere – as 2011's "Jealousy" proved – and we can't wait to hear from him again." Quentin Harrison, writing for Albumism, felt that "loosely defined as a sort of glossary for exceptional language or knowledge, it was wise for Will Young to elect “lexicon” as a designation for an album that manages to look back while moving forward with mature, compellingly rendered pop pieces."

{{Track listing

| headline = Lexicon track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 45:28

| title_width = 21%

| writing_width = 49%

| extra_width = 30%

| title1 = All the Songs

| writer1 = {{hlist|William Young|Jim Eliot|Mima Stilwell}}

| extra1 = Richard X

| length1 = 3:52

| title2 = My Love

| writer2 = {{hlist|Young|Eliot|Stilwell}}

| extra2 = Richard X

| length2 = 3:38

| title3 = Scars

| writer3 = {{hlist|Young|Liza Owen|James Earp}}

| extra3 = Richard X

| length3 = 3:30

| title4 = Get Me Dancing

| writer4 = {{hlist|Claire Anderson|Francis White|Jimmy Hogarth}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|Richard X|Eg White|Hogarth}}

| length4 = 3:43

| title5 = Ground Running

| writer5 = {{hlist|Felicia Adams|Aidan Martin|Sky Adams|Daniel Shah}}

| extra5 = Richard X

| length5 = 3:21

| title6 = Dreaming Big

| writer6 = {{hlist|Miranda Kilbey-Jansson|Elektra Kilbey-Jansson|Hannah Robinson|Liam Howe}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Richard X|Howe}}

| length6 = 4:15

| title7 = I Bet You Call

| writer7 = {{hlist|Gavin Jones|White|Johan Gustafsson}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|Richard X|White}}

| length7 = 2:53

| title8 = Forever

| writer8 = {{hlist|Young|Eliot|Stilwell}}

| extra8 = Richard X

| length8 = 5:22

| title9 = Freedom

| writer9 = {{hlist|James Norton|Richard Philips}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Richard X|Boy Matthews}}

| length9 = 3:32

| title10 = Faithless Love

| writer10 = {{hlist|Thomas Walker|Dan McDougall}}

| extra10 = Richard X

| length10 = 3:41

| title11 = Say Anything

| writer11 = Matthew Marston

| extra11 = Richard X

| length11 = 3:53

| title12 = The Way We Were

| writer12 = {{hlist|James Lavigne|Shah|Jamie Sanderson}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Richard X|Sermstyle}}

| length12 = 3:48

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