Early in 2021, Years & Years — now officially an Olly Alexander solo project — released a cover of Pet Shop Boys’ queer anthem “It’s A Sin.” The cover was recorded in conjunction with Alexander’s starring role in It’s A Sin, the Channel 4/HBO series about the impact of the AIDS crisis on a community of young gay men in London in the 1980s. “It’s A Sin” was such a good fit for Years & Years that our own Tom Breihan had invoked the song when reviewing the project’s Palo Alto album three years earlier, long before they started covering it.