Echoes is the fourth studio album by British rock band Young Guns. It was released on 16 September 2016 through Windup Records. The album was the band's first release to be recorded without long-time drummer Ben Jolliffe, who left the band a year prior to its release. Two singles were released in promotion of the album, "Bulletproof" and "Mad World".

After releasing their third studio album, Ones and Zeroes, in June 2015, and wrapping up touring in support of it in October, the band found itself at a difficult juncture. After the success of their release Bones, largely based on the immense success of the track "Bones", the band, shooting for even larger mainstream success, instead stumbled; Ones and Zeros had a lengthy, troubled recording time, and the release stalled commercially. The band convened in October to debate whether or not members wanted to go on with the band. The result was near unanimous; all members wanted to push forward full force with the exception of drummer Ben Jolliffe, who instead wanted to focus on his family life at home. The end result of the discuss was for the band to part ways with their drummer of seven years. The split was still amicable for Jolliffe, with the band just releasing a statement that he wanted to move in a "different direction" than the rest of the band. He was replaced by new drummer, Chris Kamrada. Rather than be discouraged by the removal of the member and friend, the band used it as motivation to immediately start work on a fourth studio album.

Contrary to the lengthy two years writing and recording sessions for Ones and Zeros, which was extended due heavy touring and changing of record producers mid-way of the sessions, the sessions for Echoes were far quicker. The bulk of the album was written over the course of an eight-week period spanning from November 2015 to January 2016. The banded started fresh with the material, choosing not to go back to any material written for Ones and Zeros or any other prior albums. Jolliffe's absence did not affect sessions much, as he hadn't previously had much of a role in the writing process.Frontman Gustav Wood and guitarists John and Fraser Taylor were the principle writers, would usually write Jolliffe's drum parts for him in the process. The writing sessions largely operated as they had in the past, with the exception of not having a drummer to do jam sessions to test out ideas in the writing phase. Recording began in February 2016 and ran for a five-week period. The band worked with rock music producer David Bendeth and recorded in the House of Loud studio in New Jersey. The band allowed Kamrada the freedom to record his drum parts as he felt best fit the music, something the band felt helped create a new dynamic between the band in general. While the band expected to be done after the five weeks of recording, upon taking a short vacation, Wood and John Taylor felt inspired to keep going, writing around five new songs. Upon presenting them to the rest of the band, they were generally impressed, choosing to flesh out and record three of the tracks for the album's final track listing. Recording sessions for the album were completed in May 2016.

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