Sinners Never Sleep
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| Studio album by You Me at Six | ||||
| Released | 3 October 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2011; Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |||
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| Length | 47:57 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Garth "GGGarth" Richardson, Matt O'Grady | |||
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| BBC Music | (mixed) |
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Sinners Never Sleep is the third studio album by English rock band You Me at Six. The album was released on 30 September 2011 and was released through Virgin Records in the UK, Australia and New Zealand on 3 October 2011. The album was then released in the United States on 24 January 2012. The first and lead single, "Loverboy" was released on 23 September 2011, and was followed by "Bite My Tongue" which was released on 28 November 2011. Their third single from the album, titled, "No One Does It Better" was released on 8 April 2012. The fourth and last single to be released from the album, titled, Reckless was released on 22 October 2012.
The album was recorded in Los Angeles in early 2011 with producer Garth Richardson, known for his production work with band such as Biffy Clyro and Rage Against the Machine. The album was mixed and mastered by long time collaborators Matt O'Grady and John Mitchell at Matt O'Grady's home studios in Woking, Surrey. The album is also to feature guest vocalists Oli Sykes and Winston McCall respectively.
The band set up a five-day countdown timer as a splash page on their website alluding to the release of 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'. The deluxe edition was also released on iTunes LP and featured the bonus track 'Takes One To Know One', the video for 'Loverboy', and the documentary film 'Bite My Tongue'.
You Me at Six had to delay the video shoot for "Loverboy" due to the London Riots 2011. The "Loverboy" video was premiered on 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 22 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 26 September.
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