Listen: Kele Okereke releases duet with Years & Years' Olly Alexander

Okereke has decided not to be coy on the track, as he says so many before him have been in pop songs about love between two men. Okereke chose to work with Alexander to set the “precedent of out gay musicians singing a love song to one another without having to hide behind codes”.

'Grounds For Resentment' is a breezy, romantic duet from Okereke's forthcoming album Fatherland.

Okereke told The Guardian recently “I remember reading something that [Olly] wrote about the use of pronouns in pop music for gay artists that I thought that was very perceptive and intelligent – that the use of pronouns was the last frontier for gay artists. There are lots of gay acts that avoid using the term he when singing about same sex desire. It will just be a neutral term, whereas Olly understands from what I read that there is a long way to go for gay musicians in being able to describe love and desire authentically."

Fatherland is out October 6, with Okereke kicking off a corresponding UK tour.