Following the release of Australian bushfire relief charity single Our House (The Mess We Made) last week, You Me At Six's Josh Franceschi has discussed the track in relation to a potential upcoming album, and if the musical stylings of Our House could work their way into more new music from the band.
While You Me's new standalone single adopts a more uplifting tone despite its lyrical warning about climate change ("It’s slapstick a little bit; it’s a dance song, but the mood of the lyrics and what is being said isn’t so much…" the frontman explains), it sounds as though album number seven from the Surrey crew won't follow suit in the slightest; in fact, at this point it shares more in common with their third LP, 2011's Sinners Never Sleep.
“This record is probably the heaviest we’ve been since Sinners – the stuff that’s been put together is the rockiest record we’ve had in a long, long time," Josh tells Kerrang! in this week's issue of the magazine. "So Our House actually couldn’t be further away from it. That, again, is why it’s a standalone single and why we’re using it in the way we are, because it just wouldn’t work with all the other stuff. When [the record’s] right, it will come out, basically. We’re still working towards that. But everything feels good in the camp!”