VI (You Me at Six album)

VI
Orange-coloured water merging with purple-coloured water, with a giant white "VI" over the top of the water
Studio album by
You Me at Six
Released5 October 2018
RecordedMay 2018
StudioVADA, Alcester
Genre
Length33:49
Label
Producer
You Me at Six chronology
Night People
(2017) 		VI
(2018) 		Suckapunch
(2021)
Singles from VI
  1. "3AM"/"Fast Forward"
    Released: 6 June 2018
  2. "I O U"
    Released: 10 August 2018
  3. "Back Again"
    Released: 21 August 2018

VI is the sixth studio album by English rock band You Me at Six, released on 5 October 2018 through Underdog Records and AWAL. Within months of releasing their fifth studio album Night People in early 2017, the members expressed a disliking for it and were already working on its follow-up by September 2017. They went on residential studio writing retreats in Reading, Berkshire and Bury St Edmunds, and subsequently met with various producers. Dan Austin was then enlisted, and the band recorded their next album at VADA Studios in Alcester in May 2018. VI is a pop and rock album that incorporates electronic influences, which guitarist Max Helyer attributed to the works of Jess Glynne, Two Door Cinema Club and the Weeknd.

VI received generally favourable reviews from music critics, many of whom complimented the change in You Me at Six's sound. The album peaked at number six in the United Kingdom and number eight in Scotland, as well as charting in Australia and the United States. "3AM" and "Fast Forward" were released as a double A-side lead single in June 2018, followed by "I O U" in August 2018. You Me at Six promoted the album with a headlining UK tour at the end of the year; they opened 2019 with a tour of mainland Europe. They then went on a US tour, and then an Australian tour supporting Bring Me the Horizon. Rock Sound ranked the album within the top 30 of their 50 best releases of the year list.