SIX BY SEVEN
THE CLOSER YOU GET
Mantra
4/5
Second Album from Nottingham's extreme noisepop terrorists.
Death, suicide and junk food provide the ingredients for this delicious ice-cream headache of an album. Second time around, Six By Seven place layer after layer of solid concrete guitar noise on the bones of their immense - and now classic - debut single, "European Me". And it hurts.
Constantly on the point of Jesus And Mary Chain-like feedback collapse, Chris Olley and gang somehow manage to hold these dark, fuel-injected songs together. Stand out track "Ten Places To Die" is just colossal.
Kindred spirits of Godspeed You Black Emperor! and Mogwai at their loudest, The Closer You Get is music to die to, and for.
Neil Thompson
Influenced By: Loop, My Bloody Valentine Influenced On: Mogwai, Sonic Youth