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Six by Seven is tagged as: indie, alternative, indie rock, shoegaze, rock

Six by Seven are a Nottingham, England based rock band who formed in 1996, specialising in a brand of space-rock that fused the drones, propulsiveness and washes of noise of krautrock with the abrasiveness of punk. They have released six albums, along with several compilations of studio offcuts and live performances. Arriving at a time of stagnating but popular Britpop and Britrock, they were unique not only in sound but also in utilising a saxophonist for texture and in Sam Hempton choosing to attack his guitar strings with a drumstick instead of a plectrum.
The band take their name from the research connected with the Hubble telescope. Sam came up with the name, but he’s told the story so many times that he’s not quite sure if he still remembers the theory correctly! Anyway, it goes something like this… “There was a big debate as to whether the millions of other galaxies in the universe were accelerating away from each other or moving away at a constant rate, or whether they were actually coming back in on themselves. The scientists originally thought that everything would eventually come back in on itself and implode, but what’s actually happening is that they are accelerating away at a rate of Six By Seven.”
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Top 10 Six by Seven Songs
Bochum (Light Up My Life)
Ocean
Catch The Rain
Ready For You Now
Candlelight
There's A Ghost
Untitled
So Close
For You
Eat Junk Become Junk
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Top 10 Six by Seven Albums
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The Closer You Get
The Way I Feel Today
The Things We Make
All The Way From Forest Fields And Back
If Symptoms Persist, Kill Your Doctor
Left Luggage at the Peveril Hotel
Artists, Cannibals, Poets, Thieves
Club Sandwich At The Peveril Hotel
So Close
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