Album Review

You Me At Six – Finders Keepers

• 25th May 2009

This forthcoming single from the Weybridge pop-punkers doesn’t mess around, dropping straight into the lip-trembling relationship-themed vocals and delicate guitars. It’s delivered with palpable emotion by frontman Josh Franceschi; emotion being a key concept since “Finders Keepers”, and indeed what else I’ve heard of You Me at Six, is so reminiscent of the glory days of emo (ask your parents, kids) back in the early noughties. You can practically taste the asymmetrical hair and black nail varnish as it launches into the empassioned, driving chorus replete with waily overlapping melodies.

But I’m not having a go, far from it. This is a tight production; singalong, borderline anthemic vocally with well-arranged guitar lines tangling enticingly through the opening verse before pounding away on the sort of chorus I, personally, would have been jumping around my bedroom to five or six years ago. It’s a big enough song to win over plenty more fans and keep You Me at Six on the path to mainstream glory.