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Six By Seven have been annoyed before by comparisons to Radiohead, and doubtless will be again. However, it is possible that The Closer You Get, their second album, may come to be seen to have the same relationship to their 1998 debut The Things We Make asThe Bends does to Radiohead's nervous and patchy opening shot Pablo Honey. The Closer You Get is an assured, confident and complete record, and sounds very much like the fruition of the fearsome promise that Six By Seven have been exhibiting for some time. Though the mood of the album hardly deviates from beginning to end--this is music as sombre, serious and intense as the shadow-laden cover portrait--Six By Seven find a commendable number of shades within the darkness. "Sawn-Off Metallica T-Shirt" and "England And A Broken Radio" more than live up to the literate biliousness of their titles, and "New Year" is a fine redemptive ballad. --Andrew Mueller
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SIX BY SEVEN The Closer You Get (2000 UK 12-track CD picture sleeve MNTCD1017)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Six. By Seven - The Closer You Get: In the words of Mr Williams from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, the music on this album is "too busy looking good" compared to ANYTHING out there. It's the best thing I've heard since Radiohead's the bends and that's saying something. From the lamenting Eat Junk Become Junk to 100 & Something Foxhall Road, all the songs have a certain subtle violence about them; it's the way they start off soft and end up making your ears bleed in a cacophony of guitars, banging-drums and weird noises. A definite must for anybody's record collection.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Whilst the first Six By Seven album has maybe two top class songs on it, The Closer You get has 5 or 6, and another seems to leap out at me every time I hear it. 'Ten Places to Die' is a slowburning nightmare, that just builds and builds, 'One Easy Ship Away' a tortured ballad from the Radiohead school of gut wrenching, and 'My Life is An Accident' comes to a astonishing climax, as frontman Chris Olley screams the title of the album over and over again. This is very intense and heavy music, owing a whole lot more to Sonic youth, Joy Division and the Velvet Underground, than to Radiohead.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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lyrically, this album is appauling, but don't let that put you off. It's an ear pulverising smash and grab journey, taking at lot from the bands like Mogwai, with the huge crescendos that last the whole song. If you like your music starting off a bit softly, then getting louder and noiser throughout the whole song with no respite, then this is for you.
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