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'The Way I Feel Today' is the third album by the Nottingham-based group Six By Seven. Like their second album, 'The Closer You Get' (which contained the memorable line "If you eat junk, you become junk"), their new offering is an angry one. Chris Olley fulminates against everything and everyone. Even listening at home, you have to hide to avoid the spit that leaves Olley's mouth with every bitter word that just couldn't be sung any other way but shouted out furiously.
Contrary to 'The Closer You Get', you'll have to wait three songs to enter the real storm, and this time it's even stronger. But the signs are there from the first song on. 'The Way I Feel Today' starts off with the heavy build-up of 'So Close'. "You know they really screwed you up before you tumbled down," Olley welcomes you to his pessimistic world. The second song, though, is the most poppy tune ever written by Six By Seven, the single 'IOU Love', which contains a catchy loop of a German flute. It's a beautiful declaration of love, while staying true to the typical tension-laden sound of the band. After the acoustic-based 'All My New Best Friends', the easy ride ends. 'Flypaper For Freaks' hits you like a frontal collision, cuts you like a knife when you least expect it. From now on you're up against the wind. What follows is punk in the tradition of early-day Hüsker Dü ("Speed is in / Speed is out."), techno beat noise ('Karen O') that makes a nervous wreck out of you, and existential questioning in the slower 'American Beer', which concludes with the redemption of love: "Nobody told me it would be like this / Nobody showed me how to care / What better time than a time like this / To show you all the love I have." There's also plenty of anger and disgust in 'Cafeteria Rats' ("He's a fucking disgrace.") and unlimited self-criticism in 'Bad Man' ("I let a sister go through hell / I let a mother lose her son."). The necessity that lies in these songs seems to suck up all your energy, leaving you tired and weakened.
'The Way I Feel Today' is a continuation of the sound of the second album, but has the energy of one of the band's live performances. While 'The Closer You Get' was a traditional studio album, this one catches the band playing live in the studio. It gives the record a more organic sound, but the band still is unwilling to compromise. This r'n'r machine again manages to make the sharp repetitive structures still sound melodic, rich of colour, and overwhelm. There's no way of escaping. Punk blood is rushing through the veins of Six By Seven; its heart is pounding like that of a mad man, and this underrated band should get the credit it deserves. Forget the hype, stop following the crowd, think for yourself... It's dirty, it's tough, it's honest. This is what rock'n'roll is all about.
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