If you were to judge SIX BY SEVEN'S recent "The Way I Feel Today" album purely on the last single "IOU Love" and now this, you'd momentarily think Nottingham's scariest had (whisper it!) gone soft.
The bigger picture is considerably different, of course, as "The Way I Feel Today" in reality contains probably at least the same quota of fear and loathing as their previous "The Closer You Get."
Nonetheless, the bitter but elegant "All My New Best Friends" is undoubtedly one of the most striking things CHRIS OLLEY and co have recorded thus far, with - hold your horses - strings sliding over a subtle, considered (semi-acoustic!) melody.
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Suspend your disbelief, though, as deeper digging reveals Olley singing the likes of: "the skinjobs never worked and those legs were not her own" or "banged up and depressed." That's far more like it.
"All My New Best Friends," then, is a bitter, but eminently effective, anti-celebrity stab that may well (finally) help pick up larger numbers of disaffected ears out there. (8/10)
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