| Released | 3 October 2011 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | 2011; Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genre | Alternative rock, pop punk, post-hardcore |
| Length | 47:57 |
| Label | Virgin |
| Producer | Garth "GGGarth" Richardson Matt O'Grady Rating  6/10 |
Sinners Never Sleep proved to be the third studio album from Surreys alternative rock band You Me Six. The album was released on 30th September 2011 through Virgin Records once again. The album reached No.3 on the UK charts as it was then also certified Gold in the UK for 150,000 sales, giving it the band's biggest success to date. Increasing in fan base as well as their profits, the five piece band have grown and changed a lot from where they had originally started out.
Knowing to never drop their teenaged boy love heartbreak themes in which they have previously carried out in past albums, the band have carried this on with adapting a more mature attitude to progress further whilst still keeping their very young, adolescent fan base. "Loverboy" portrays this perfectly, opening the album with all of you me at six's strengths. A banging chorus which follows its high, upbeat tempo fits in solidly, as you will find this tune repeat in your head over again, implanting it's mark in your memory forever. Acting on impulse this song, shows the advancement of what was once a teenaged boy relationship into something that's more fun and playful rather than serious, despite covering some heart filled emotional secrets within this album.
The next song "Jaws On The Floor" certainly does leave you breathless, with a matching guitar riff, You Me At Six have done it again, providing a well structured ever changing song. With each verse attacking in its sharp utterance, the chorus juxtaposes with Josh's vocals showing off a more softer side, it's composed so beautifully that the two synchronised with each other, produce a matched bridge.
The third song in, and we have already hit a bump in the road, "Bite My Tongue" is the most pivotal journey from the band as this song was written by lead vocalist Josh, who expressed his feeling about his fellow band members, where it came to the point where the wanted to break up the band due to disputes among each other, a controversial song in which the band are playing about themselves, it does prove to be one of the strongest in the album. "Well in the end what are you without me." this line along with many other just demonstrates his hatred and anger with them as the lyrics follow a hatred theme, truly expressing his raw emotions which we haven't yet seen . To withheld this angered theme, Oliver Sykes appears as guest vocals towards the bridge of the song, screaming swear words at each member, providing a hard hitting tone that sets the mood black, however the song ends with Josh admitted " I can't hate the ones who made me", bringing us back to terms that every other member in the band is just as important as he is and without them he wouldn't be who he is today. This is not the only song in the album where a famous guest vocalist is present as "Time Is Money" is another hard hitting, hardcore side to you me at six, as they have pulled out of their pop punk genre and started to hybrid off with various others, giving them a diverse and progressive sound, improving each time they release an album.
With it's high paced, alternative mood, this song just shows that You Me At Six can pull of such a metalcore/ hardcore genre with the heightened guitar chords repeated over and over again, Winston's breakdown of vocals compresses the song together, making it their heaviest yet effective in the album. Doing well by using two famous screamers to collaborate in two songs, Sinners Never Sleeps may just won over the others.
Coming from such a heightened tension song we then get to "This Is The First Thing" which relaxes us slightly, this album is filled with a lot of filler, clam songs that talk about wanting to be with that someone who has caused so much pain, like this song there are also many others which follow this emotional pattern, targeting a more saddened feel rather than a jealous payback theme you would find in previous albums. The rest of the album is infectious as its bouncy rhythms are sweet in ballad styles, which is highlighted by "The Dilemma, which captures your attention imminently, separating it's self from the rest o the album, this is the one song which is sang in a recall story type, as it opens with Josh in a Cockney accent, building onto a chorus that hides heavy threaded riffs throughout, this song shows off the bands more fun, sarcastic not caring side as it is shown to be a joke, further making it lovable all the same.
"No One Does It Better" is another sad ballad style which follow "Crash" a more heightened song along with " A Little Bit Of The Truth"
Now I want to talk about each one separately as I do feel that they are importation contributions to the album, the overpopulated themes of sorrowful ballads just show the unluckiness in which the band have experienced with girls and common problems.
Pulling out of their teenaged boy way of dealing with them, YMAS have shown a more mature stratified way in expressing how they feel and focusing on the more happy times they had when in a relationship. Songs like these just make you feel warm inside, reminiscing on your own happiness and what you once had, feeling nostalgic and seeing your past experiences in a more positive mindset.
Crash takes the once pumped up heavy guitar riff and slows it down to form a base platform for Josh to sing on with his beautiful harmonized voice. Building up on layers, Crash does this with each verse, pre-chorus and then finally exploding in its main chorus where his vocals are heighten to the max, making an overwhelming blast filled with anger and passion that you can feel, matches your inner thoughts.
"But when I looked at here I thought of only you" Still playing on these, unresolved feelings, "Just crash fall down" has a much memorable lyrical pattern as they are so simple, yet so strong once stuck in your mind, describing how sometimes you just want to be with the person you once loved, hoping that things would go back to how they were, the song has hopefully spirits which gain the audience to not feel embarrassed about these emotions by letting them out in a song.
" A Little Bit Of The Truth" pushes forth a more present happiness, as we have reached an end to this troubled journey and we now have Josh expressing his current feelings, finally like at the end of a fairy tale we are restored to our happiness in that one person who has made us feel "invincible" this song is simply placed to just show that all in one song.
Progressing on to their past, "Little Death" carries on the heavy guitar riffs along with the quiet banged drums which get it's glory to shine in the later chorus. Banging out at full blast, the powerful choruses are back and stay, using their talent for producing such mind blowing, head banning tunes, this album is filled with many variants of them. Right till the very end this song carries on it's hard rock vibration as it draws to a very short close. Keeping hopes up high, "Reckless" corroborates to provide a captivated ending to the album, with just a few songs left this is the feel good, gig song which gets the crowd pumping. As in it's name the song is just about being reckless and not caring, having a good time with your friends and remembering that not everything is serious, reminding us back of our childish tactics, this song has provided a constant bounce whilst listening to it, as I have found it hard to stop myself from moving along to it's infectious beat.
Much appreciating this song is banged right at the end of the album, it molds the rest of the album, making it a little bit less mush and serious, with it's over-powerment of moshing beats, Reckless will prove to lift up everyone's spirits.
Taking over a whole new feel and atmosphere, "When We Were Younger" just puts your mind back in place to the more serious, reef tone. Ending the album off with such a downbeat song is tricky to do, however with the mix-up of various feelings, it proves to work as it's not completely sedate as Josh, once again stunned us all with his hauled, stepped up vocals that reach a native quiver in the room. This song still gives me chills, as it's a little flashback of when you were younger, remembering all these things that you got told but never thought you would experiences, talking about a journey of growth this song is vital to the album as in each one we have taken a level of progression to the band which we are finally meting here, that they have now grown up into young mature adults.
The stunned powerful "Ooooooooooo"'s indulge a thoughtful insight to their much complex minds, almost making you feel these same painful memories they are recalling.
Once again YMAS have brilliantly composed an album which strays a little more form their original path, yet still interacting old themes with revisiting new ones and combining them to make mature, advanced songs. I can say that their fans still would be happy, as well as gaining many more new ones, this band certainly do know how to use their music to their advantage, finishing 2011 with another brilliant album.
The only reason in why I gave it a lower rank than the previous two is because of its modern adaptation in which they are trying to please a mass audiences rather then a niche, old fan base, I can see the troubles it may cause with losing fans over their new genre sound, yet still slightly keeping their old style, YMAS have gown up and most of their fans still haven't which is the problem not the albums.
Knowing to never drop their teenaged boy love heartbreak themes in which they have previously carried out in past albums, the band have carried this on with adapting a more mature attitude to progress further whilst still keeping their very young, adolescent fan base. "Loverboy" portrays this perfectly, opening the album with all of you me at six's strengths. A banging chorus which follows its high, upbeat tempo fits in solidly, as you will find this tune repeat in your head over again, implanting it's mark in your memory forever. Acting on impulse this song, shows the advancement of what was once a teenaged boy relationship into something that's more fun and playful rather than serious, despite covering some heart filled emotional secrets within this album.
The next song "Jaws On The Floor" certainly does leave you breathless, with a matching guitar riff, You Me At Six have done it again, providing a well structured ever changing song. With each verse attacking in its sharp utterance, the chorus juxtaposes with Josh's vocals showing off a more softer side, it's composed so beautifully that the two synchronised with each other, produce a matched bridge.
The third song in, and we have already hit a bump in the road, "Bite My Tongue" is the most pivotal journey from the band as this song was written by lead vocalist Josh, who expressed his feeling about his fellow band members, where it came to the point where the wanted to break up the band due to disputes among each other, a controversial song in which the band are playing about themselves, it does prove to be one of the strongest in the album. "Well in the end what are you without me." this line along with many other just demonstrates his hatred and anger with them as the lyrics follow a hatred theme, truly expressing his raw emotions which we haven't yet seen . To withheld this angered theme, Oliver Sykes appears as guest vocals towards the bridge of the song, screaming swear words at each member, providing a hard hitting tone that sets the mood black, however the song ends with Josh admitted " I can't hate the ones who made me", bringing us back to terms that every other member in the band is just as important as he is and without them he wouldn't be who he is today. This is not the only song in the album where a famous guest vocalist is present as "Time Is Money" is another hard hitting, hardcore side to you me at six, as they have pulled out of their pop punk genre and started to hybrid off with various others, giving them a diverse and progressive sound, improving each time they release an album.
With it's high paced, alternative mood, this song just shows that You Me At Six can pull of such a metalcore/ hardcore genre with the heightened guitar chords repeated over and over again, Winston's breakdown of vocals compresses the song together, making it their heaviest yet effective in the album. Doing well by using two famous screamers to collaborate in two songs, Sinners Never Sleeps may just won over the others.
Coming from such a heightened tension song we then get to "This Is The First Thing" which relaxes us slightly, this album is filled with a lot of filler, clam songs that talk about wanting to be with that someone who has caused so much pain, like this song there are also many others which follow this emotional pattern, targeting a more saddened feel rather than a jealous payback theme you would find in previous albums. The rest of the album is infectious as its bouncy rhythms are sweet in ballad styles, which is highlighted by "The Dilemma, which captures your attention imminently, separating it's self from the rest o the album, this is the one song which is sang in a recall story type, as it opens with Josh in a Cockney accent, building onto a chorus that hides heavy threaded riffs throughout, this song shows off the bands more fun, sarcastic not caring side as it is shown to be a joke, further making it lovable all the same.
"No One Does It Better" is another sad ballad style which follow "Crash" a more heightened song along with " A Little Bit Of The Truth"
Now I want to talk about each one separately as I do feel that they are importation contributions to the album, the overpopulated themes of sorrowful ballads just show the unluckiness in which the band have experienced with girls and common problems.
Pulling out of their teenaged boy way of dealing with them, YMAS have shown a more mature stratified way in expressing how they feel and focusing on the more happy times they had when in a relationship. Songs like these just make you feel warm inside, reminiscing on your own happiness and what you once had, feeling nostalgic and seeing your past experiences in a more positive mindset.
Crash takes the once pumped up heavy guitar riff and slows it down to form a base platform for Josh to sing on with his beautiful harmonized voice. Building up on layers, Crash does this with each verse, pre-chorus and then finally exploding in its main chorus where his vocals are heighten to the max, making an overwhelming blast filled with anger and passion that you can feel, matches your inner thoughts.
"But when I looked at here I thought of only you" Still playing on these, unresolved feelings, "Just crash fall down" has a much memorable lyrical pattern as they are so simple, yet so strong once stuck in your mind, describing how sometimes you just want to be with the person you once loved, hoping that things would go back to how they were, the song has hopefully spirits which gain the audience to not feel embarrassed about these emotions by letting them out in a song.
" A Little Bit Of The Truth" pushes forth a more present happiness, as we have reached an end to this troubled journey and we now have Josh expressing his current feelings, finally like at the end of a fairy tale we are restored to our happiness in that one person who has made us feel "invincible" this song is simply placed to just show that all in one song.
Progressing on to their past, "Little Death" carries on the heavy guitar riffs along with the quiet banged drums which get it's glory to shine in the later chorus. Banging out at full blast, the powerful choruses are back and stay, using their talent for producing such mind blowing, head banning tunes, this album is filled with many variants of them. Right till the very end this song carries on it's hard rock vibration as it draws to a very short close. Keeping hopes up high, "Reckless" corroborates to provide a captivated ending to the album, with just a few songs left this is the feel good, gig song which gets the crowd pumping. As in it's name the song is just about being reckless and not caring, having a good time with your friends and remembering that not everything is serious, reminding us back of our childish tactics, this song has provided a constant bounce whilst listening to it, as I have found it hard to stop myself from moving along to it's infectious beat.
Much appreciating this song is banged right at the end of the album, it molds the rest of the album, making it a little bit less mush and serious, with it's over-powerment of moshing beats, Reckless will prove to lift up everyone's spirits.
Taking over a whole new feel and atmosphere, "When We Were Younger" just puts your mind back in place to the more serious, reef tone. Ending the album off with such a downbeat song is tricky to do, however with the mix-up of various feelings, it proves to work as it's not completely sedate as Josh, once again stunned us all with his hauled, stepped up vocals that reach a native quiver in the room. This song still gives me chills, as it's a little flashback of when you were younger, remembering all these things that you got told but never thought you would experiences, talking about a journey of growth this song is vital to the album as in each one we have taken a level of progression to the band which we are finally meting here, that they have now grown up into young mature adults.
The stunned powerful "Ooooooooooo"'s indulge a thoughtful insight to their much complex minds, almost making you feel these same painful memories they are recalling.
Once again YMAS have brilliantly composed an album which strays a little more form their original path, yet still interacting old themes with revisiting new ones and combining them to make mature, advanced songs. I can say that their fans still would be happy, as well as gaining many more new ones, this band certainly do know how to use their music to their advantage, finishing 2011 with another brilliant album.
The only reason in why I gave it a lower rank than the previous two is because of its modern adaptation in which they are trying to please a mass audiences rather then a niche, old fan base, I can see the troubles it may cause with losing fans over their new genre sound, yet still slightly keeping their old style, YMAS have gown up and most of their fans still haven't which is the problem not the albums.
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