Ones and Zeros by Young Guns

Ones and Zeros, the third album from High Wycombe's Young Guns, took the long road: the band spent 2013 to 2015 bouncing between studios, countries and producers, Steve Osborne among the names in the credits, before it finally came out in June 2015 through Virgin EMI and Wind-up. That wandering left its mark. The big alternative-rock frame is still standing, but it's wired up now, with electronic pulses running under Gustav Wood's soaring vocals and the twin guitars of Fraser Taylor and John Taylor, while Simon Mitchell's bass and Ben Jolliffe's percussion anchor it all.

They were chasing the lightning of "Bones", the single that had topped Billboard's Active Rock chart in 2013. None of the six singles here got close, and only the first, "I Want Out", charted at all, but the album itself debuted at number three on the Top Heatseekers chart, well above where Bones had landed.

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