 
You Me At Six exploded onto the pop-punk scene
back in 2008 with their debut album ‘Take
Off Your Colours’ and from that moment they
have gone from strength to strength and seen their
fan base rise massively over the years, in 2010
they went on to release their second album ‘Hold
Me Down’ which saw the band ditch most of
their pop-punk roots and take on a more mature
rocking sound and now the band are back with their
third studio album ‘Sinners Never Sleep’
which happens to be their most experimental work
so far.
‘Sinners Never Sleep’ is an album
that is either going to make or break You Me At
Six and looking at the fact that the album reached
number 3 in the official UK album chart it is
safe to say that the album has helped to push
the band further into the mainstream and it is
so easy to see why as You Me At Six have simply
rebranded themselves as a straight up rock band
and come back with a new mature look and a bigger
mature sound.
The album opens with the main single release ‘Loverboy’
which happens to be the poppiest moment on the
album, it’s extremely catchy and has one
of the most infectious choruses that I have heard
in a while and it is guaranteed that within seconds
you will find yourself tapping your feet and humming
along until you pick up on the lyrics.
‘Jaws On The Floor’ is quite an rock
and roll anthem which has Josh Franceschi running
the show with his loud and clear vocals, the song
has the kind of vibe that makes you want to be
at one of the major summer festivals stood in
a field singing-a-long whilst drinking a cold
pint of beer.
‘Bite My Tongue’ is a very interesting
track and see’s You Me At Six team up with
Bring Me The Horizons Oli Skyes and it is clear
to say that it is one of the rockiest and edgy
songs that the band have ever written and the
inclusion of Oli Skyes is a bit too little too
late in my opinion but he does ass dynamics to
the song and really does add to the aggression
that You Me At Six would not be able to capture
alone.
‘This Is The First Thing’ see’s
You Me At Six go a little bit stripped back and
takes you on a soppy sounding journey where everything
is executed in such a mellow way apart from the
chorus which sees Franceschi sing that little
bit louder and stronger.
As the album progresses it goes through many different
ups and downs in the way that one song will be
quite laid back in mellow and then the next will
be quite upbeat but lacking the poppyness of their
debut material, for example ‘No One Does
It Better’ is extremely laid back, whilst
‘Little Death’ starts off laid back
but features a massive sing-a-long chorus of “We
are not your lovers, we are not your friends”,
whilst ‘The Dilemma’ picks up the
pace and the album closer ‘When We Were
Younger’ see’s the band go out full
of emotion on such an experimental track.
Overall ‘Sinners Never Sleep’ is a
bit of a mixed album which seems like You Me At
Six are slightly stuck in which direction they
want to head in as a band but you really do have
to hand it to them as when they started out they
had a lot of haters who have now been converted
to You Me At Six fans and there new found mixed
sound has clearly paid off in ‘Sinners Never
Sleep’.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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