Sinners Never Sleep
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Sinners Never Sleep is the third full length record from English alternative rock
band You Me at Six
. The album was released on 30 September 2011 and was released through Virgin
in the UK
, Australia
and New Zealand
on 3 October 2011. The first single to be released from the album is "Loverboy". You Me at Six broke the news via their website. The single will have a video which is in the making, artwork has been revealed and the single was released on 23 September 2011. It will released in the United States on January 24th, 2012.
"This song was the first song we wrote for the album, pretty much. We knew as soon as wrote it, with the whole gang vocal-chanting at the beginning, that we wanted that to start off the record. Matt [Barnes]'s bassline is pretty much what the whole song sits around."
"I think it's probably the most summer, good vibe feeling song that we've got on the record. Because of the guitar lines and the verse, it sounds really bright from the word go. It just sounds like a really bright, summery kind of song that I feel you'd listen to in the summer."
"Bite My Tongue' is probably one of the rockiest songs we've ever written. I don't know if this is just me, but it's probably one of my favourite songs just because I really like the energy and I like how raw it sounds at parts, but also, it just sounds pissed off the whole time. Even instrumentally, it sounds quite aggressive. Then, we've got Oli Sykes [of Bring Me The Horizon] on the middle-eight, which really helps to capture that aggression."
"This song will forever remind us of casinos. And it was one of the first songs that we demoed for the album back when we were writing 'Loverboy', so we've had this one for a while as well." - Dan Flint
"Lyrically – just to add – this song is actually a story: the opening line is 'I woke up this morning with a grudge the size of a short story', and then, I go on to tell the short story. It's very short".
"The next song is called 'Little Death'. Funny story about this song, we wanted to call the album 'Little Death' but our label and our management wouldn't let us because it actually means 'orgasm' in French, and they weren't into that. Then, our producer Garth Richardson actually said that when we said that title, it made him think of his daughter, who's only fourteen, being abducted and killed and we didn't really think that was good, if that's what parents thought about it. Oh and It nearly didn't make it on the album, We kinda forgotten about it"
"Crash' is probably going to be the 'Fireworks' of this record I think. The song that people will be able to relate to most when it comes down to relationships and that kind of stuff. It's quite a soppy, ballad-y kind of song, but it seems to be quite popular amongst everyone who has heard it so far. It's quite long as well, so don't get too bored."
"The next song is 'Reckless'. Okay, funny little thing about this song is that originally, it was called 'Don't Hold Your Breath', but, Nicole Scherzinger – she's pretty fit - but she's got a song called 'Don't Hold Your Breath'. Then, we were like, “Okay, we'll call it 'The Best You've Never Had',” but a band called The Swellers called one of their new songs 'The Best I Ever Had' and Beyonce, So we named it Reckless, It's Dan [Flint] 's least favourite track on the album"
"The cool thing I think about 'Time Is Money' is that we all enjoy listening to music that is slightly heavier anyway, so as soon as Max played us this riff, we knew it wasn't gonna be a light-hearted poppy, rocky song. We knew we could only take it in one direction and just thought, why not take it to the heaviest it can go. Lyrically and vocally, we didn't actually have a chorus for the song until we got to LA. We re-wrote the chorus as Dan was tracking his drums, so it all kind of came together. I think that's why it sounds quite natural, and kind of pissed off which is how it's meant to sound." This song was originally called 'Time Is Money And You're Not Paying Me Enough to Listen to Your Bullshit' but the track was re-titled because of their label.
"This song, I'd say is us as a band... if there was ever a You Me At Six song that was heavily influenced by Jimmy Eat World, it would probably be this one. We're all massive massive fans of Jimmy Eat World and I think that's pretty evident during this song. It's definitely one of the songs that came together quite easily and painlessly because we knew where it was gonna go as a song. I remember when we were doing pre-production, we completely re-wrote the middle-eight"
"The next song is a song called 'The Dilemma'. The title of the song was nicked from a film which has Vince Vaughn in it, and is actually about a dilemma where he thinks that his mate's wife in cheating on him. Bit of shinfo, but I thought you should know that I stole it from a film. This song sounds very burlesque-y and we had a lot of fun writing and recording this song, especially when we threw the bass instruments onto the middle-eight.
Max: I personally like the Fonejacker quotes in the song."
"Max: The next song is Terry's favourite. It's called 'When We Were Younger'. This is definitely the most experimental song we've done. We got to work with a guy called Damian who does a lot of programming work for Bjork. It's the longest song as well, at six minutes long, I would say, and it basically just builds up into one at the end.
Dan: It's very different. Some people love it, some people probably don't love it, but it was something that we had to get out of our system. That's 'Sinners Never Sleep.'"
earlier this year with producer Garth Richardson
, known for his production work with band such as Biffy Clyro
and Rage Against the Machine
. The album is also to feature guest vocalists Oli Sykes and Winston McCall respectively. You Me at Six had to delay the video shoot for "Loverboy" due to the London Riots 2011. The "Loverboy
" video was premiered on the 28 August on their YouTube channel. The video continues the Prison theme on this album. On 30 August, Track 4 on the album "This Is the First Thing" was leaked on to Tumblr, although this was confirmed to be a demo version. The "Loverboy" single has three additional tracks which are the instrumental and acoustic versions of the single, also an exclusive B-side titled "Moon Child". On the 22nd of September, You Me At Six played a live session for Radio 1 covering Foo Fighter's songs "Bridge Burning", "All My Life" and "Best of You" as well as "Loverboy
" and a world exclusive live version of Sinners Never Sleep track "Little Death" The song "Jaws on the Floor" was played exclusively on Kerrang!
radio on September 26th. Bite My Tongue, featuring a guest appearance from Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes, will be released on November 28. This was confirmed on the 17th October. On the 19th of October, You Me At Six took to Twitter to announce they'll be shooting the Bite My Tongue video in Los Angeles the same day.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band You Me at Six
You Me At Six
You Me at Six is a British rock band from Weybridge, Surrey. Formed in 2004, the group rose to fame in 2008 with the success of their debut album, Take Off Your Colours, which included the singles "Save It for the Bedroom", "Finders Keepers" and "Kiss and Tell", with the latter two peaking at #33...
. The album was released on 30 September 2011 and was released through Virgin
Virgin Records
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in the UK
United Kingdom
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, Australia
Australia
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and New Zealand
New Zealand
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on 3 October 2011. The first single to be released from the album is "Loverboy". You Me at Six broke the news via their website. The single will have a video which is in the making, artwork has been revealed and the single was released on 23 September 2011. It will released in the United States on January 24th, 2012.
History
The band set up a five-day countdown timer as a splash page on their website alluding to the release of some information about their new release, accompanied by changing images each day. On 1 August 2011 at 1pm UK time the timer expired revealing the artwork, title and track-listing for their 3rd full-length release titled Sinners Never Sleep. Despite having recorded 19 tracks the album has been confirmed to have 12. The deluxe edition will include a film documentary which follows the recording of Sinners Never Sleep' and the bands rise to fame called 'Bite My Tongue'.Songs
You Me At Six's take on their new songs from the album.- Loverboy
"This song was the first song we wrote for the album, pretty much. We knew as soon as wrote it, with the whole gang vocal-chanting at the beginning, that we wanted that to start off the record. Matt [Barnes]'s bassline is pretty much what the whole song sits around."
- Jaws On The Floor
"I think it's probably the most summer, good vibe feeling song that we've got on the record. Because of the guitar lines and the verse, it sounds really bright from the word go. It just sounds like a really bright, summery kind of song that I feel you'd listen to in the summer."
- Bite My Tongue (Ft Oliver Sykes)
"Bite My Tongue' is probably one of the rockiest songs we've ever written. I don't know if this is just me, but it's probably one of my favourite songs just because I really like the energy and I like how raw it sounds at parts, but also, it just sounds pissed off the whole time. Even instrumentally, it sounds quite aggressive. Then, we've got Oli Sykes [of Bring Me The Horizon] on the middle-eight, which really helps to capture that aggression."
- This Is The First Thing
"This song will forever remind us of casinos. And it was one of the first songs that we demoed for the album back when we were writing 'Loverboy', so we've had this one for a while as well." - Dan Flint
- No One Does It Better
"Lyrically – just to add – this song is actually a story: the opening line is 'I woke up this morning with a grudge the size of a short story', and then, I go on to tell the short story. It's very short".
- Little Death
"The next song is called 'Little Death'. Funny story about this song, we wanted to call the album 'Little Death' but our label and our management wouldn't let us because it actually means 'orgasm' in French, and they weren't into that. Then, our producer Garth Richardson actually said that when we said that title, it made him think of his daughter, who's only fourteen, being abducted and killed and we didn't really think that was good, if that's what parents thought about it. Oh and It nearly didn't make it on the album, We kinda forgotten about it"
- Crash'
"Crash' is probably going to be the 'Fireworks' of this record I think. The song that people will be able to relate to most when it comes down to relationships and that kind of stuff. It's quite a soppy, ballad-y kind of song, but it seems to be quite popular amongst everyone who has heard it so far. It's quite long as well, so don't get too bored."
- Reckless
"The next song is 'Reckless'. Okay, funny little thing about this song is that originally, it was called 'Don't Hold Your Breath', but, Nicole Scherzinger – she's pretty fit - but she's got a song called 'Don't Hold Your Breath'. Then, we were like, “Okay, we'll call it 'The Best You've Never Had',” but a band called The Swellers called one of their new songs 'The Best I Ever Had' and Beyonce, So we named it Reckless, It's Dan [Flint] 's least favourite track on the album"
- Time Is Money Ft Winston McCall
"The cool thing I think about 'Time Is Money' is that we all enjoy listening to music that is slightly heavier anyway, so as soon as Max played us this riff, we knew it wasn't gonna be a light-hearted poppy, rocky song. We knew we could only take it in one direction and just thought, why not take it to the heaviest it can go. Lyrically and vocally, we didn't actually have a chorus for the song until we got to LA. We re-wrote the chorus as Dan was tracking his drums, so it all kind of came together. I think that's why it sounds quite natural, and kind of pissed off which is how it's meant to sound." This song was originally called 'Time Is Money And You're Not Paying Me Enough to Listen to Your Bullshit' but the track was re-titled because of their label.
- Little Bit Of Truth
"This song, I'd say is us as a band... if there was ever a You Me At Six song that was heavily influenced by Jimmy Eat World, it would probably be this one. We're all massive massive fans of Jimmy Eat World and I think that's pretty evident during this song. It's definitely one of the songs that came together quite easily and painlessly because we knew where it was gonna go as a song. I remember when we were doing pre-production, we completely re-wrote the middle-eight"
- The Dilemma
"The next song is a song called 'The Dilemma'. The title of the song was nicked from a film which has Vince Vaughn in it, and is actually about a dilemma where he thinks that his mate's wife in cheating on him. Bit of shinfo, but I thought you should know that I stole it from a film. This song sounds very burlesque-y and we had a lot of fun writing and recording this song, especially when we threw the bass instruments onto the middle-eight.
Max: I personally like the Fonejacker quotes in the song."
- When We Were Younger
"Max: The next song is Terry's favourite. It's called 'When We Were Younger'. This is definitely the most experimental song we've done. We got to work with a guy called Damian who does a lot of programming work for Bjork. It's the longest song as well, at six minutes long, I would say, and it basically just builds up into one at the end.
Dan: It's very different. Some people love it, some people probably don't love it, but it was something that we had to get out of our system. That's 'Sinners Never Sleep.'"
History
The album was recorded in Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
earlier this year with producer Garth Richardson
Garth Richardson
Garth "GGGarth" Richardson is a Canadian music producer and engineer. He is the son of renowned Canadian music producer Jack Richardson . Jack was a pioneer of the music recording industry in the 60's and 70's...
, known for his production work with band such as Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro are a Scottish rock band from Kilmarnock, comprising Simon Neil , James Johnston and Ben Johnston...
and Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group's line-up consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk...
. The album is also to feature guest vocalists Oli Sykes and Winston McCall respectively. You Me at Six had to delay the video shoot for "Loverboy" due to the London Riots 2011. The "Loverboy
Loverboy (You Me at Six song)
-Chart performance:-Release history:...
" video was premiered on the 28 August on their YouTube channel. The video continues the Prison theme on this album. On 30 August, Track 4 on the album "This Is the First Thing" was leaked on to Tumblr, although this was confirmed to be a demo version. The "Loverboy" single has three additional tracks which are the instrumental and acoustic versions of the single, also an exclusive B-side titled "Moon Child". On the 22nd of September, You Me At Six played a live session for Radio 1 covering Foo Fighter's songs "Bridge Burning", "All My Life" and "Best of You" as well as "Loverboy
Loverboy (You Me at Six song)
-Chart performance:-Release history:...
" and a world exclusive live version of Sinners Never Sleep track "Little Death" The song "Jaws on the Floor" was played exclusively on Kerrang!
Kerrang!
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...
radio on September 26th. Bite My Tongue, featuring a guest appearance from Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes, will be released on November 28. This was confirmed on the 17th October. On the 19th of October, You Me At Six took to Twitter to announce they'll be shooting the Bite My Tongue video in Los Angeles the same day.
Track listing
You Me at Six
- Josh Franceschi – lead vocalsLead vocalistThe lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
, lyricsLyricsLyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of... - Chris Miller – lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
- Max Helyer – rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
, lyricsLyricsLyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of... - Matt Barnes – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Dan Flint – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
Additional musicians
- Oli Sykes – guest vocalsGuest appearanceIn show business , a guest appearance is a participation of an outsider performer , usually called guest artist , in an event , i.e., the participation of a performer which does not belong to the regular crew In performance...
(on "Bite My Tongue") - Winston McCall – guest vocals (on "Time is Money")
- Jack Howard - Lute (on "When We Were Younger")
- Dean Dobbs - Ukelele (on "No One Does It Better")
Production
- Garth "GGG" Richardson – Co-Producer
- Ben Kaplan - Engineer
- Jack Howard - Co-Producer