Electric Six
It is as predictable as anything that someone asserts will someday happen. The rock and roll band wants to go home. The rock and roll band wants to go back to where it got its start.
To the days when it was insecure about everything and picked unnecessary fights with members of local bands because it thought they were saying something about it. To the days when its own members decided that it was quite possibly the most important band in Detroit…….and what a coincidence, they were in that very same band. To the days when it opened up the NME and thought it might be incredibly meaningful to meet Julian Casablancas.
It is predictable as anything that was ever going to happen at the behest of the predictor. The rock band would never go home. It had seen too much. It had grown older. It had played too many shows in a row, seen too many local openers, traveled to too many countries. The band can never go home. Not to the way it was.
Look at Kirk Hammett. You think Kirk Hammett circa 2009 has anything in common with the Kirk Hammett that played on Kill ‘Em All? Today’s Kirk Hammett brushes his teeth with caviar and does transcendental meditation on top of the Petronas Towers. His best bet is to cut his hair, put on some eyeliner and hope the teacher of his daughter’s suzuki method violin class (and James Hetfield for that matter) doesn’t notice.
Electric Six is a rock and roll band just like Kirk Hammett. They both just want to go home. But they can never go home.
Electric Six is done trying to not sound like their first record Fire. Electric Six wants to sound like their first record Fire. Electric Six wants big loud guitars and fuzz basses intertwined with the occasional r&b jam. However, Electric Six has been to Estonia. Electric Six has been to Chile. Electric Six belongs to a food co-op and Electric Six works out at the gym. Can it really go to that place?
The answer is our sixth album KILL. The answer is yes we can sound like the first album. But we are going to sprinkle it with what we’ve learned. We can go back to the skull-crushing guitars and disco grooves, but they will be cooked in an avant-garde reduction sauce.
With the album opener “Body Shot”, Electric Six says to the listener “We are still Electric Six. We can still effortlessly combine hip-hop and r&b sensibilities with loud guitars and real drums. We can alternate the falsetto and bellowing vocal styles. We are still Electric Six. And we can reach into you and eat your soul.”
But KILL doesn’t rest on any laurels. KILL seeks to boldly and bloodily go where it can go where no go before. Tracks like “One Sick Puppy” and “Waste of Time and Money” tell the listener that guitars will be used and stories will be told. Stories of betrayal and despair and the good times that can only come from betrayal and despair.
The anchor track of KILL is the triumphant “Steal Your Bones”. Electric Six reaches into Fleetwood Mac territory and tells the tale of a man who would clone his way into a young girls heart. Upon hearing the final mix of this song, guitarist Johnny Nashinal remarked, “The video for this track needs to take place on an aircraft carrier!” Were that we would, but alas President Obama has given all of our aircraft carriers to al-Qaeda just like Sean Hannity said he would.
KILL is a rock/dance/pop masterpiece culminating in the smooth nightlife groove of “White Eyes”. Electric Six loves to end its albums on an adult contemporary note. It’s as if Electric Six is saying, “Fuck you, rest of album!!! We are going to end the album with a song that doesn’t sound anything like the rest of you. That’s how we do things in Royal Oak!!!!”
To summarize, Electric Six is releasing it’s sixth record KILL. Electric Six wants to return to simpler times. Kirk Hammett won’t let us.
KILL is available on Oct. 20, 2009 on Metropolis Records. Come see Electric Six on our “I’m Cutting a Fuckin’ Spot, Tony” tour this fall in a town near you.
Discography
| ZODIAC · MET 679· COMING SEP 28 · 1. After Hours 2. American Cheese 3. Clusterfuck! 4. Countdown to the Countdown 5. Doom and Gloom and Doom and Gloom 6. Jam It in the Hole 7. I Am a Song! 8. It Ain't Punk Rock 9. Love Song For Myself 10. The Rubberband Man 11. Table and Chairs 12. Talking Turkey | |
| ZODIAC · MET 679D· COMING SEP 28 · 1. After Hours 2. American Cheese 3. Clusterfuck! 4. Countdown to the Countdown 5. Doom and Gloom and Doom and Gloom 6. Jam It in the Hole 7. I Am a Song! 8. It Ain't Punk Rock 9. Love Song For Myself 10. The Rubberband Man 11. Table and Chairs 12. Talking Turkey | |
| KILL · MET 614· 1. Body Shot 2. Waste Of Time And Money 3. Egyptian Cowboy 4. Escape From Ohio 5. Rubbin' Me The Wrong Way 6. One Sick Puppy 7. Steal Your Bones 8. My idea Of Fun 9. I Belong In A Factory 10. The Newark Airport Boogie 11. Simulated Love 12. You're Bored 13. White Eyes | |
| KILL · MET 614D· 1. Body Shot 2. Waste Of Time And Money 3. Egyptian Cowboy 4. Escape From Ohio 5. Rubbin' Me The Wrong Way 6. One Sick Puppy 7. Steal Your Bones 8. My Idea Of Fun 9. I Belong In A Factory 10. The Newark Airport Boogie 11. Simulated Love 12. You're Bored 13. White Eyes | |
| FLASHY VINYL LP · MET 559V· DISC 1 // 1. Gay Bar Part Two 2. Formula 409 3. Dirty Ball 4. Lovers Beware 5. Your Heat Is Rising 6. Face Cuts 7. Flashy Man | |
| FLASHY · MET 559· 1. Gay Bar Part Two 2. Formula 409 3. We Were Witchy White Women 4. Dirty Ball 5. Lovers Beware 6. Your Heat Is Rising 7. Face Cuts 8. Heavy Woman 9. Flashy Man 10. Watching Evil Empires fall Apart 11. Graphic Designer 12. Transatlantic Flight 13. Making Progress | |
| FLASHY · MET 559D· 1. Gay Bar Part Two 2. Formula 409 3. We Were Witchy Witchy White Women 4. Dirty Ball 5. Lovers Beware 6. Your Heat Is Rising 7. Face Cuts 8. Heavy Woman 9. Flashy Man 10. Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart 11. Graphic Designer 12. Transatlantic Flight 13. Making Progress | |
| I SHALL EXTERMINATE EVERYTHING AROUND ME THAT RESTRICTS ME FROM BEING THE MASTER · MET 508· 1. It's Showtime! 2. Down At McDonnellzzz 3. Dance Pattern 4. Rip It! 5. Feed My Fuckin' Habit 6. Riding The White Train 7. Broken Machine 8. When I Get To The Green Building 9. Randy's Hot Tonight! 10. Kukuxumushu 11. I Don't Like You 12. Lucifer Airlines 13. Lenny Kravitz 14. Fabulous People 15. Sexy Trash 16. Dirty Looks | |
| I SHALL EXTERMINATE EVERYTHING AROUND ME THAT RESTRICTS ME FROM BEING THE MASTER · MET 508D· 1. It's Showtime! 2. Down At McDonnelzzz 3. Dance Pattern 4. Rip It! 5. Feed My Fuckin Habit 6. Riding On The White Train 7. Broken Machine 8. When I Get To The Green Building 9. Randy's Hot Tonight! 10. Kukuxumushu 11. I Don't Like You 12. Lucifer Airlines 13. Lenny Kravitz 14. Fabulous People 15. Sexy Trash 16. Dirty Looks | |
| I BUY THE DRUGS · MET 444D· 1. I Buy The Drugs | |
| SWITZERLAND · MET 438· 1. The Band In Hell 2. I Buy The Drugs 3. Mr. Woman 4. Night Vision 5. Infected Girls 6. Pulling the Plug On The Party 7. Rubber Rocket 8. Pink Flamingos 9. I Wish This Song Was Louder 10. Slices Of You 11. There's Something Very Wrong With Us, So Let's Go Out Tonight 12. Germans In Mexico 13. Chocolate Pope | |
| SWITZERLAND · MET 438D· 1. The Band In Hell 2. I Buy The Drugs 3. Mr. Woman 4. Night Vision 5. Infected Girls 6. Pulling The Plug On The Party 7. Rubber Rocket 8. Pink Flamingos 9. I Wish This Song Was Louder 10. Slices Of You 11. There's Something Very Wrong With Us So Let's Go Out Tonight 12. Germans In Mexico 13. Chocolate Pope | |
| SEņOR SMOKE · MET 400· 1. Rock 'n' Roll Evacuation 2. Devil Nights 3. Bite Me 4. Jimmy Carter 5. The Usual 6. Dance Epidemic 7. Future Boys 8. Dance-A-thon 2005 9. Dark Angel 10. Vibrator 11. Boy or Girl 12. Room Temperature 13. Radio Gaga 14. Taxi to Nowhere 15. Future is in the Future | |
| SEņOR SMOKE · MET 400D· 1. Rock And Roll Evacuation 2. Devil Nights 3. Bite Me 4. Jimmy Carter 5. Pleasing Interlude I 6. Dance Epidemic 7. Future Boys 8. Dance-A-Thon 2005 9. Be My Dark Angel 10. Vibrator 11. Boy Or Girl? 12. Pleasing Interlude II 13. Radio Ga Ga 14. Taxi To Nowhere 15. Future Is In The Future |