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Artist: Six by Seven
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5024545299427
ASIN: B0002WS490
Release Date: 2004-09-28 |
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Not their finest hour.......2006-03-12
The first three Six By Seven albums are all brilliant, but 04 was their poorest to date at the time. It's not that there isn't good stuff here - in particular, 'Bochum' is a vivid, dizzying rush that rides along on an almost Balearic beat and soaring major chord synths. The album divides into two rough types of track - those that are pretty primitive, crushing rockers, and those that branch out in a more electronica-influenced direction. In both categories, there are successes and failures. In the former, 'Ocean' is a tidal wave of gigantic proportions, bouncing along on a disorientating, Oriental synth line, while 'Sometimes I Feel Like...' revisits the sound of the first two albums but with more crushing intesnity that ever before. However, at times the tracks get everday and Six By Seven by numbers - in particular, 'Catch The Rain' and 'Say That You Want Me' offer nothing new.
On the more electronic side, opener 'Untitled' is the kind of building opener we've come to expect, but with new enhancements, and 'There's A Ghost' is a gorgeous sea of feedback and wistful meldoies. But pointless electronic interludes feel like filler, and aren't done with particular skill. Worst of all perhaps is 'Ready For You Now', presumably the attempt at the big single, but instead a thuddingly boring song with a lazy melody that sounds worryingly similar to DJ Otzi's 'Hey Baby', except encased in an absurd arrangement that sounds like a Six By Seven parody. Not even the production of Dave Fridmann can revive it.
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- Soul Fishin' ~ Mad Hattie
- Extended Versions ~ Steve Miller
- It's All Up Now: Anthology ~ Fruupp
- Good Dreams ~ The Pillows
- Il Baccio ~ Grandpa's Ghost
- Walk With Evil ~ Trophy Husbands
- Imagined Oceans
- Shangri-La
- Strangeitude ~ Ozric Tentacles
- Star's End ~ David Bedford
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