I've written a few hundred reviews in my time, both live and album but only twice have a reviewed an individual song. One was a review on Led Zepplin IV where all I talked about was "Stairway to Heaven" and the other was "Amarok" an hour long track by Mike Oldfield which is an album in itself but only 1 track. In other words usually when I only talk about one track in a review it's because I think it's special and I think this is exactly what I have on my hands here with Yungblud's "Hello Heaven, Hello".
I'm relatively new to Yungblud so here is a brief introduction. He is a 27 year old singer/songwriter from Doncaster, England. Actual name is Domonic Richard Harrison, he released his debut self-titled EP all the way back in 2018 at 20 years old. I really first started paying attention to him when he did a collaboration with Bring me the Horizon on the superb "Obey". He also did another excellent collob with Avril Lavigne "I'm a Mess" released in 2022. But I never investigated him beyond that until now when I came across "Hello Heaven, Hello" which was released this year on March 18th 2025.
First off, you must know when artists do long songs that excites me. Especially ones who don't normally do it. To me it shows ambition, bravery and adventure. The music industry really isn't set up for longer songs, with radio stations very rarely playing longer tracks and streaming services counting streams for number of times played rather than how long each track is. Then you have the artists live sets where people often go to gigs to hear the popular songs which are often shorter. It's almost a risk to put a longer track in as if some people didn't like it they can lose interest and just go off you. Where as if they don't like one short track, well at least it's short and over and done with quicker.
So how long is Yungblud's epic - to be precise 9 minutes and 6 seconds. The track has 3 noticeable parts and it does look like the song title depicts the 3 sections. With the first section called "Hello", the second section called "Heaven" and the third section called, for the second time "Hello". You may wonder what drew me to those conclusions. Well throughout the whole track Yungblud sings the word "Hello" 130 times and that is mainly in the first part of the song and also in the third part of the song. With "Heaven" mentioned in the middle section.
The first part of the song has this really cool drum beat and the track builds nicely as it goes on. The repetition of "Hello" I imagine might get irritating for some people but I love it. The linking between the end of part 1 and the start of 2 is really good. And part 2 is where Yungblud steps it up a notch and goes into full on rock mode. I've seen the shortened version of this part on Jonathon Ross and it lives up to the hype and Yungblud's delivery in terms of vocals and stage presence shows someone who is ready to fill the boots of rock royalty of the past. There is also a fine guitar solo in this section and just when you thought things couldn't get any better then violins come in and add extra dramatic effect.
Another great transition from part 2 to part 3 and now we have the chill out, outro section of the track. The vocals here remind me of some of The Music's stuff as Yungblud sounds very like Robert Harvey here. Not a bad thing at all. It's a really nice wind down and ends the track well.
What I do wonder is if this is going to be released on an album or not. My guess is yes. But where would you put it on an album? It has a great intro which would start an album well and a great outro which would finish an album well. Another thing I wonder is if he was tempted to make the 3 parts, 3 individual tracks. Because they would make 3 great tracks in their own right. Would the 3 tracks be more successful because they are 3 individual tracks and would be able to have more streams and more radio play. As we have seen already he did make a shortened version of the track for Jonathon Ross excluding the last part altogether. It shows being on that primetime show just what the industry thinks of the track.
Overall, I think this is a classic track and I am glad it's 9 minutes long. I do hope it is on an album and can't wait to listen to more of his stuff, especially what's to come.
