For those unaware, today, You Me At Six are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of their milestone U.K. Gold certified album, Sinners Never Sleep (UMe) with the first ever vinyl pressing, including an expanded color vinyl 3LP set featuring the entire album, the 2012 The Final Night Of Sin At Wembley Arena album, and a third LP of unreleased rarities.

Alongside this will be the standard 12 track album on 1LP (being reviewed here today), digital, and a 3CD deluxe package with previously unreleased bonus material.

Released by Virgin Records on October 3rd, 2011, Sinners Never Sleep reached No. 3 in the U.K. album chart on its release, selling over 182,000 copies and cementing You Me At Six as one of the most important and influential bands in U.K. alternative rock.

Songs like “Loverboy” and “Bite My Tongue” (ft. Oli Sykes) proved transcendent and genre-shifting classics. Created when You Me At Six were barely out of their teens, ”Sinners Never Sleep” was applauded for and fueled by heroic hooks and towering choruses, lauded as the heaviest album they had ever made both sonically and lyrically at this point in their career.

Side A:
A1. Loverboy
A2. Jaws On The Floor
A3. Bite My Tongue
A4. This Is The First Thing
A5. No-one Does It Better
A6. Little Death
A7. Crash

Side B:
B1. Reckless
B2. Time Is Money
B3. Little Bit Of Truth
B4. The Dilemma
B5. When We Were Younger

Produced by Garth Richardson (Biffy Clyro, Rage Against the Machine) and with guest appearances from two of the metalcore scene’s most notable front men, You Me At Six’s third album, Sinners Never Sleep, suggested (and rightly so) that the Surrey quintet were keen to distance themselves from their punk-pop boy band label.

Thus the follow-up to their 2010 breakthrough, Hold Me Down, does indeed contain two of the heaviest tracks they’ve recorded, with Bite My Tongue, an aggressive slice of crunching metal featuring the vocals of Bring Me the Horizon’s Oliver Sykes, and the intense, Pendulum-esque riffs and thrashing beats of Time Is Money, which also includes the demonic howls of Australian metalcore outfit Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall.

But elsewhere, Josh Franceschi’s emotive tones quiver over a number of more palatable, radio-friendly offerings, the majority of which bear the hallmarks of several bands from across the pond, whether it’s Jimmy Eat World on the lighters-in-the-air ballad Little Bit of Truth; Panic at the Disco on the theatrical emo rock The Dilemma; or the Goo Goo Dolls on the chiming guitars and sweeping strings of soft rock anthem Crash.

The latter, in particular, may not have done anything to help their credibility-chasing cause, but the album is always much more convincing when it plays to its melodic strengths, as on the soulful, slow-building finale When We Were Younger, and the ’80s-tinged new wave of This Is the First Thing, than it is when pandering to the Kerrang! masses, as on the formulaic quiet verses/loud chorus formula of Little Death and the gang mentality glam rock of lead single Loverboy.

Indeed, in general, there’s no shame in appealing to a more commercial crowd, and if You Me At Six could have continued to pursue the album’s more mature mainstream moments, instead of trying to prove their rock credentials, Sinners Never Sleep would probably have turned out to be a more consistent affair.

That said, and having replaced buoyant guitars and boy-girl dilemmas with dark themes of religion, parenthood and death, Sinners Never Sleep was a welcomed bridge to grittier side of their material; albeit one adorned with a now-glittering pop-rock handrail.

The newly-expanded 3LP edition now comes complete with eleven ferociously-captured live tracks recorded on their final Night Of Sin 2012 tour at England’s prestigious Wembley Arena, together with two further vinyl LPs worth of ten previously unreleased rarities, this 10th Anniversary fanfare to You Me At Six is as good, and as complete as it gets for every fan of the band; or the genre, or of thoroughly heartfelt and ambitiously-crafted music overall.

You Me At Six are one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Britain. Their 15-year career has seen two U.K. Number 1 albums, four U.K. Gold Records, six Top Ten Albums in the U.K., and 17 consecutive A-List singles on BBC Radio One.

In addition, they’ve sold out multiple U.S. headline tours, with a Number One rock song in the U.K., Australia, and Top Five Rock Radio track in North America.

Following the release of their 2021 U.K. No. 1 album, SUCKAPUNCH, You Me At Six continue to play shows and work on new music.

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