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Mansun Detail Expanded 'Six' 21st Anniversary Reissue.

9/1/2019

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​Mansun have announced details of a super-deluxe reissue of their hugely ambitious second album, 'Six'.
Originally released in 1998 a little over a year after their No. 1 debut album, 'Six' arrived at the tail end of the Britpop era. A hugely ambitious record that charted in the Top 10, 'Six' spawned four Top 40 singles.​ 
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By Eamon O'Neill.

​Mansun have announced details of a super-deluxe reissue of their hugely ambitious second album, 'Six'.
Originally released in 1998 a little over a year after their No. 1 debut album, 'Six' arrived at the tail end of the Britpop era. A hugely ambitious record that charted in the Top 10, 'Six' spawned four Top 40 singles.​  Available in a number of formats, the set is can be pre-order now, HERE.  

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. 

'Six' has been fully remastered from the original master tapes by Jon Astley (Van Morrison, The Who, George Harrison, Norah Jones, The Rolling Stones). The standard CD comes with a bonus track of outtakes from the Tom Baker recording sessions. The deluxe version of 'Six' comes with a treasure trove of bonus material including one disc of outtakes, demos and rarities and a disc featuring The Dead Flowers Reject - a fan-generated bootleg album featuring favourite B sides from the 'Six' era.

Mansun were Paul Draper (vocals, guitars, studio), Dominic Chad (guitars, piano, harpsichord), Stove King (bass) and Andie Rathbone (drums). One of the most iconic and innovative British bands of the late 90s, they signed to the legendary record label Parlophone (home to The Beatles, Radiohead and Sigur Ros) in 1996. They released three albums – Attack of the Grey Lantern (1997), SIX (1998) and Little Kix (2000) and one posthumous compilation, Kleptomania. Kscope acquired the band’s catalogue in 2017 and are running a thorough reissue series that delves into a treasure trove of previously unreleased audio and visual material. Kscope released Mansun frontman Paul Draper’s acclaimed solo debut Spooky Action in 2017; Draper is currently working on the follow up, due for release later this year. 
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'Six' formats and track listing:
CD - 21st-anniversary CD edition with a 12-page booklet with extra track: Tom Baker isolated vocal session

Vinyl - limited 2x12” 180g heavyweight coloured vinyl edition in a gatefold sleeve.

Deluxe 4-Disc book - three CDs featuring the remastered album in full, a disc of demos, rarities & outtakes, and the b-side album The Dead Flowers Reject. Also contains a DVD featuring SIX mixed in 5.1 surround sound mix (DTS 96/24 5.1 and Dolby Digital AC3 5.1) by long-time collaborator P-Dub; a hi-resolution stereo audio (24bit/48kHz Linear PCM) and all of the album’s original promotional videos. It also comes with a 48-page hardback book featuring  sleeve notes by journalist and long-time fan Paul Lester alongside notes on the album from the band’s Paul Draper (including foreword, analysis of the cover art, track-by-track descriptions for the CD extras and an album overview of The Dead Flowers Reject).  

Disc 1 - SIX (remastered album) 
SIX
Negative
Shotgun
Inverse Midas
Anti Everything
Fall Out
Serotonin
Cancer
Witness to a Murder Part 2
Television
Special/Blown It
Legacy
Being A Girl

Disc 2 - Outtakes, rarities and demos

Disc 3 - The Dead Flowers Reject
What It’s Like To Be Hated 
GSOH
Been Here Before 
When The Wind Blows 
Can’t Afford To Die 
Church Of The Drive Thru Elvis 
I Care 
King Of Beauty 
But The Trains Run On Time 
Check Under The Bed 
I Deserve What I Get 
Railings

Disc 4 - 5.1 surround sound; a hi-resolution stereo audio and all of the album’s original promotional videos
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