Six by Seven Sign to the First Time

So, you ask, what does all this mean for a fan like me? Not a damn bit, I answer. You can still pick up the Brit quintet's pan-pocolyptic spacescapes pretty much anywhere. It's all the stuff that happens before you purchase those dank records that's different, and the first release to get the new pre-coital once over is the Six's fourth, 04 set to street on August 16.

Recorded and mixed by Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, with the aid of Tim "Death in Vegas" Holmes, 04 has been heralded as a return to form for the band, a record wrapped in shimmering electronics, flanked by walls of My Bloody Valentine syrup and distortion.

"We had built our own studio and were getting some interest off labels, especially as Dave Fridmann was interested in producing us," said singer/guitarist/electronic manipulator Chris Olley. "I remember going down to our studio and suddenly we realized we had about 25 songs to put the album together with. We wanted the record to have a feel to it whereby it flowed and also had some instrumental bits on it that would perhaps stretch the idea of what the band was about with those people that took us for a guitar rock band. It was interesting combining electronic sounds with the band but I think the album still is more of a rock album."

Tracklist:

01 Untitled
02 Sometimes I Feel Like...
03 Ready For You Now
04 Ocean
05 Say That You Want Me
06 Lude I
07 There's A Ghost
08 Catch The Rain
09 Bochum (Light Up My Life)
10 Lude II
11 Leave Me Alone
12 Hours
13 She Didn't Say
14 Pretty Baby

* Pitchfork Review: <a