Take Off Your Colours

Take Off Your Colours
Studio album by You Me at Six
Released	6 October 2008
Recorded	March – May 2008
Studio	Outhouse, Reading, England
Genre	Pop-punk emo pop
Length	51:09
Label	Slam Dunk
Producer	Matt O'Grady John Mitchell
You Me at Six chronology
Untitled EP (2007) Take Off Your Colours (2008) Hold Me Down (2010)
Singles from Take Off Your Colours
"If I Were in Your Shoes" Released: 17 March 2008 "Gossip" Released: 28 July 2008 "Jealous Minds Think Alike" Released: 29 September 2008 "Save It for the Bedroom" Released: 9 March 2009
Singles from Take Off Your Colours (US edition)
"Finders Keepers" Released: 25 May 2009 "Kiss and Tell" Released: 7 September 2009

Take Off Your Colours is the debut studio album by English rock band You Me at Six, originally released on 6 October 2008 through Slam Dunk Records. After forming in 2004, they released an EP titled We Know What It Means to Be Alone in 2006, and went on a tour with Elliot Minor in support of the release. After releasing "Save It for the Bedroom" as a single to promote their tour, the band gained attention from both independent and major record labels.

Following their tour with Elliot Minor, the writing process for the new album began. Although all the music's writing was credited to the entire band, vocalist Josh Franceschi and guitarist Max Helyer were usually the biggest creative forces among the group, being responsible for songs' concepts. The album was recorded in two weeks at Outhouse Studios in Reading, Berkshire with producers Matt O'Grady and John Mitchell. The band's work resulted in Take Off Your Colours displaying a sound that most critics associated with pop-punk, though this result was unintended. Specifically, the record was noted to sound similar to the work of Fall Out Boy, New Found Glory, and Panic! at the Disco.

"If I Were In Your Shoes", "Gossip", and "Jealous Minds Think Alike" were released as singles to promote the album, the latter of which became the band's first charting song. During the album's recording sessions, "Save It for the Bedroom" was re-recorded, and this version became the album's fourth single. Two more singles, "Finders Keepers" and "Kiss and Tell", later appeared on re-releases of the album. The latter four singles managed to chart, and the album itself peaked at number 25 on the UK Albums Chart. Take Off Your Colours was certified gold in the UK for shipments of 100,000 copies in July 2012.