Single Review by Mark Bayross
NEW YEAR is taken from Six By Seven’s critically acclaimed second album, THE CLOSER YOU GET, and serves as an effective introduction to any late-comers to the band. NEW YEAR is a blast of corrosive guitars and taut melody, a reminder of days of old when British indie music was more than just whiny losers trying to sound like the Beatles.
It’s backed by the Smashing Pumpkins-esque SLEEP, a sonambulant strum that sounds both understated and epic in that Billy Corgan kinda way, and the instrumental STONED IN HAWAII, whose drums and guitars steadily build into a torrent of rhythm and feedback, before winding down like a broken jet engine.
All in all, superb.
