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Years & Years have revealed the video for their new Tove Lo-featuring single 'Desire', along with an open letter on the importance of portraying queer identities in pop cuture. Watch it below.

Tove Lo's guest appearance on the song, which featured on the band's 2015 album Communion, is a new addition - but she doesn't seem to appear in its accompanying video.

It's a somewhat visually overwhelming affair, which ends up with a mass of semi-naked people making out with each other.

In an open letter accompanying the video, lead singer Olly Alexander wrote, "I LOVE POP (obviously) so, why is it that in 2016, a Pop video featuring people expressing their sexuality who aren’t cis-gendered or heterosexual, feel at all unusual or progressive?"

He continued, "Well for a lot of people, it doesn’t- they live and think outside of the societal binary most of us are used to, but for a lot of other people, myself included, it does. It shouldn’t, but it does. I am an openly gay male singer, in a band called Years & Years, we make pop music.

"We’re not the only queer-frontman-led acts nor am I the only openly gay male singer but all that being said there aren’t that many of us and at times I’ve felt real pressure to hide or to limit my sexuality." Read the full statement here.

See Years & Years' full UK tour dates are below.  For tickets and more information, click here.

28/03 Ironworks, Inverness
01/04 Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham
02/04 Apollo, Manchester
04/04 BIC, Bournemouth
05/04 Pavillions, Plymouth
06/04 Oasis, Swindon
08/04 Wembley Arena, London

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