You Me At Six, the British once pop punk, now alternative rock band with their third full length album with producer, Garth Richardson (Atreyu, Haste the Day, Rise Against). Frontman Josh Franceschi is one of my favorite lyricists with such clever, hateful, blunt lyrics showing he isn't afraid to say what he means to say. Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes and Parkway Drive's Winston McCall are featured on this album, showing the band taking it up a notch, stepping outside of the pop punk genre. Yet the album still contains the catchiness from time to time that they had in the past two albums, with darker lyrics.
The lead single and opening track, "Loverboy" has a crafty bass intro with such great lyrics, and a great bridge that instrumentally shows their alternative rock side while "Jaws On The Floor" provides catchy and dark verses. "Bite My Tongue" is one of my favorites on this album and the heaviest song that You Me At Six has written to date which hateful lyrics that I love. You know when Oli Sykes picks up the microphone shit is going to go down with the bridge being one of my favorites ever, everything about that song is so good! "This Is The First Thing" shows the band going back to the old with pop punk but taking it down a notch as well just like in "No One Does It Better." The catchiest songs on this album are easily "Little Death" and "Reckless" providing solid guitar riffs. "Little Death" is a song that almost didn't make the album which surprises me because I think its also one of the best on the album. The guitar riffs and the chorus are so good "We are not your lovers, we are not your friends/We are just sinners, we're condemned to death/We are not your lovers, we are not your friends/Fuck what you believe in, cause this is the end" If you were looking for another "Fireworks" from their previous album, well both "Crash" and "Little Bit Of Truth" are twice as good, such masterpieces from the instrumentals to the amazing lyrics. Don't forget about the band taking it up a notch like they did in the beginning of the album, they pick it right back up with "Time Is Money" with catchy verses and the ending Winston McCall picks up the microphone and goes even heavier than Oli Sykes! The acoustic led "The Dilemma" surprises you with the trumpets at the end of the song providing something fresh! The longest track and last track on the album "When We Were Younger" is another slow song that Josh Franceschi nails with the lyrics. "Takes One To Know One" is a bonus track that is another all-around great song!
Sinners Never Sleep is their best album to date, the band stepped it up showing great maturity, jumping out of the pop punk genre. Once again Josh Franceschi continues through every song to write great lyrics. I believe the band can even go heavier and wish they would do that in their next record.
I give this album a 9.1/10
Listen to - Bite My Tongue
Little Death
Crash
Review by - Sean Graham
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