Digipak Analysis

You Me At Six - Digipak

Opposite are images of You Me At Six's third album 'Sinners Never Sleep'. The digipak contains a CD, a DVD, a booklet with all of the lyrics in and individual mugshots of all of the band members, as well as the front and back covers and the inside panes. The theme of crime is continuous within the digipak not only have you got the mugshots and the front cover image of a woman holding up a mugshot board, there is also  identification paperwork for each band member on the inside panes of the digipak. This links with one of their songs on the album called 'Loverboy' which is set in a prison interrogation room. All of the images in the digipak are black and white with a sepia tint and there is no colour. The sepia tint contrasts with the music and genre as they are an alternative rock band and their music is quite fast, however the black and white colour scheme is redundant in a band of this genre. Almost all of the text in the digipak is capitalised, this gives it a formal appearance which supports the law enforcement theme. However the lyrics are in a font similar to that of a typewriter, also the layout makes them appear to be set out as old fashioned criminal reports which links with the sepia images.

There are many redundant features to this digipak for example the list of tracks on the back, the booklet listing lyrics and the thank yous at the back, the images of the band with the lead singer in the centre at the front and the CD. However there are some entropic features too such as the DVD, it is not very common for a DVD to be included and the mugshots of the band. It is very rare for a band to continue a theme to this extent.