"Eat Junk Become Junk…" the swarming opening tune from this new Six By Seven thing sings the praises that nutritionists have been trying to drive home for years… only we're getting it just served up just a little more directly here on "The Closer you Get."

The stirring follow up to '98's "The Things we Make" is synonymous with scoring that one quick goal and getting a leg up-if you will-on the competition, or getting off to that quick start after being unable to breakthrough in the previous match… though not for lack of trying.

Six By Seven's an amalgamation of this latest modern rock phenomenon that I've been getting quite a pleasant earful of lately-The Go, Vue… notice I'm not saying Radiohead!-only much brasher this time around.

Dripping with amplification and stinging with reverberated echo, the layers of atmosphere that float above the plush seat of the textural guitar drone, makes a transition between edgy pop and driving rock as effortlessly as moving from a standing to sitting position… Traces of Pink Floyd can be heard on the delightfully trippy "New Year" and "One Easy Ship Away" while "My Life is an Accident" and the anxious "Don't Wanna Stop" have them landing back on solid ground, running wildly with a strong inclination toward psychedelic paranoia!

"The Closer you Get" is a highly stylized rock and roll record symbolic of a late 60's trash and jam studio session and early 70's theatrical excess-see "England and a Broken Radio" and the dynamically overwrought "Another Love Song…"

We've got a new record that's light on subtlety, heavy on groove, and pleasantly non-conformist… Dark, dirty and fashionably disruptive yet sometimes uplifting, but only in those welcome moments where its not beating you senseless about the head and shoulders!

Released by Beggars Banquet

Review By Vinnie Apicella