But for sheer scope, challenge, and a shockingly prodigious amount of original ideas, Six is certainly one of the albums of the year. If it ends up as a fantastic, glorious failure that I'll hardly ever play, well, that's virtually irrelevant. And if Attack Of The Grey Lantern was a surprise, an enormously ambitious debut, Six makes it look like a Cast record. This is really a very ambitious record indeed. This time, Mansun throw everything in.
Compromises are shunned.
Bridges are burnt, well and truly. Each song is five songs, melodies battle with myriad counter-melodies, words fly by at incomprehensible speed, and the sounds on this record are really not like much you're familiar with. Scare your parents by playing them this album and telling them, this is what pop sounds like in 1998. But anyway, back to ambition. 80's mid-tempo guitars, before another blast of Bowie and straight into Serotonin, a song about migraines.