[TR24][OF] Mansun - Six (21st Anniversary Edition) - 1998/2019 (Jazz)

One of the most audaciously brilliant albums of the ’90s remastered for its 21st anniversary. Includes the hit singles “Six”, “Being A Girl”, “Legacy” and “Negative”. The 1998 album has been remastered from the original master tapes by Jon Astley.
There are 14 tracks on the Demos, Rarities and Outtakes disc, including three outtakes of Tom Baker’s narration on the album. There’s also a completely unreleased song by Dominic Chad, a subliminal hidden track from within Serotonin, Dominic Chad singing Inverse Midas and alternative versions of Cancer and Fallout amongst many other gems.” (Paul Draper)
Released little over a year after their No. 1 debut album, Mansun’s SIX was nothing less than a revelation. Arriving at the tail end of the Britpop era, SIX was a hugely ambitious spiralling, sprawling record that charted in the Top 10 on release and spawned four Top 40 singles.
Concept-driven and spanning myriad genres, SIX was a record out of time made by a band at the peak of their creative powers – a collection of songs that fizzed with ideas and inspirations and fused elements of pop, electronica and progressive rock to Tchaikovsky sample, electronic drums and spooky synth lines. Lyrically, the songs referenced religious scepticism, gender dysphoria, Winnie the Pooh, L. Ron Hubbard, Stanley Kubrick, Orwell, Marxism and that most iconic TV show, the Prisoner. On top of all of that, the record featured a spoken word section from the legendary fourth Doctor Who – Tom Baker. The end result is a 70 minute, twelve-track brain warp, a record that would set Mansun apart from their peers forever.