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Dizzy may have faced a chilly reception in Sweden, but it sounds fresh and exciting on the former Years & Years singer's new album, Polari, which comes out on Friday.

If you're not familiar with the origin of the title, Olly explained it to me like this: "Polari is kind of considered the lost language of gay men, who would use it to communicate with each other in secret when homosexuality was criminalised. So it's got a really beautiful, rich history, which I found so inspiring whilst I was making the music."

Bona Palooza translates as "good gathering" with "bona" deriving from Polari - a centuries-old slang language used by some gay subcultures.

It was called Polari, a code of sorts used by gay people, convicts and traveling entertainers to help them make community in the 18th and 19th centuries.

According to Paul Baker, a linguist at Lancaster University in England, the word can be traced to Polari, “a secret form of language, used mostly by gay men, which flourished in the early 20th century” in the United Kingdom.