The Closer You Get + Peel Sessions (2LP)

Despite heaping praise on Six by Seven's breakthrough second album The Closer You Get, the press seemed confused as to how to categorise them. The band straddled a fine line between post-Brit Pop, British rock and a much edgier kind of punk. Inspired by the Pistols and the Stranglers as well as US bands such as Sonic Youth and Mercury Rev, Six By Seven consciously wanted to write pop songs that would get played on the radio, as Chris Olley explains: "We wanted to fill a gap I think, fill it with the sort of music we would like to hear and buy ourselves; sort of Captain Beefheart doing pop."

The Closer You Get reissue will be presented in all its former glory, without being remastered or tampered with, and will sound the same as it did when it originally came out. The additional LP will be polybagged together with the album. It will feature Six By Seven's third Peel session on one side and various b-sides and other Peel sessions on the other.