You Me At Six – ‘Truth Decay’

Opening with the aptly named track ‘Deep Cuts’, the eighth studio album from imperishable You Me At Six, ‘Truth Decay’, represents a cathartically anthological retrospective of their journey, through the best part of 20 years in the British rock scene. The direction of an eighth album is somewhat unchartered territory for your average 00’s born alt-rock outfit and, gratifyingly, You Me At Six have used this platform as an ode to their longstanding fanbase, an elevated love-letter and the scene that nurtured and bolstered them to their dizzying chart-topping heights. ‘Truth Decay’ is sprinkled with self-referential sounds, evidently tapping back into their original influences, cherry-picking and then polishing the stand-out elements from their previous re...