Last seen by dotmusic attempting to destroy the London Scala and all within it by sheer noise terror alone, Six By Seven, are, as ever, on the brink.
After two albums of quite brutal guitar and lyrical emotional execution, the band seem to have been forever running up a 90-degree mountain, their teeth glued together in an amphetamine snarl.
However, after the aforementioned recent show - a gruesome and mainly unpleasant exercise in directionless sonic violence - and the loss of vital but utterly brain-wronged guitarist Sam Hepburn, their future is actually on the line.
'I. O. U. Love' is a stretched to breaking point return to battle, a darker than space organ drone underpinning the moody guitar jangle, engaging flute synth and singer Chris Olly's trademark keening, despairing dispatches. Ultimately though, what the album holds will be far more telling.
