If you’d never cast a curious eye over the sleeve notes, nor ever come into brief contact with You Me At Six it would be easily to ingenuously think that this Surrey based quintet were rooted and spawned from the depths of America’s emo conveyor belt. The chugging structures, shouty choruses, melodramatic heartstring pulling attempts of ‘There’s No Such Thing As Accidental Infidelity’ and ‘Take Your Breath Away’ do nothing but grate like nails scaled down a black board. This, their second album, exhibits its angst rock on its sleeve with pride and is as potent as the acne that frequents their audience’s faces it will attract, no doubt in bulbous proportions. And just like the readily erupting faces of spotty teens at their shows, eventually they will dry up and comprehend it was just a chapter of their adolescence. In turn, wholly never having to endure this flagrant-less congealed depression pill of an album.

You Me At Six - 'Hold Me Down', 5.3 out of 10 based on 4 ratings

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