This album is totally offending my lobes. Every note is, to paraphrase Bill Hicks, like a turd falling into my drink. This is the sound of a high-velocity band that have crashed at top speed into a brick wall, and yet are still trying to put-put their way out of the scrapyard, and leaving a cloud of noxious black smoke everywhere they go. Difficult second album? In a way. In that it's difficult to listen to it without smashing your CD player to make it stop.
With this record Electric Six have completely worn out their welcome and revealed themselves as the sub-standard rock 'n' roll pastiche/ cabaret act we all hoped they weren't. The songs are tired and half-finished, with none of the virulently catchy greatness of the earlier singles. The sounds are cliched and basic. The jokes aren't funny at all. The vocal is bombastic and brash, shouting loud but saying nothing, and it's making me want to take this CD out of the player and throw it out of the window.
So that's exactly what I'll do. If you're walking around Dalston and you see it on the pavement, try not to get any on your shoes.
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Obviously I should steer clear of the 2nd album!
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Gotta be the most impressive career collapse of recent years, no? From headlining Brixton to playing Islington Academy in the space of a year...
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I had a listen. It's very very bad.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha! You really are that sad!
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Let's all agree with the reviewer like sheep, baaa baaa. Get an OPINION ladies
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Then I heard this album and deleted the rating.
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I will be avoiding the second album, though - especially if it's as bad as all that. Because I don't want it to taint my mind and make me unable to listen to the first album without feeling dirty, and because... well... unless the second were a massive progression and way, way better than the first with different things to recommend it, I don't actually need two Electric Six albums in my life. I just don't.
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File under: Presidents of the USA, Goldie Lookin' Chain. Fun debuts all. PUSA and Electric Six so far have made the mistake of making a follow up...
(OK, I know technically GLC have had about a million albums but...)
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i'll let you know.
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best.
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hmmmmm
you could sort of see this coming couldn't you? Given what was on the first album
wtf
I actually really like this, and not only because of the fact that no-one else seems to (though upon finding out it was massively hated I've started playing it louder).
Jimmy Carter, Dance Epidemic, Devil Nights and Future Boys are songs I want to listen to again and again. This is a singles band for God's sake.
As an album I'll admit it's not fantastic, it stalls at the start and then loses interest about 6 or 7 tracks through, but that chunk is still shit hot. And the Radio Gaga cover, whilst not particularly innovative, is still entertaining.
The Pleasing Interludes make me laugh as well.
All in all, hate it if you like, but don't just say now about the band what you wanted to but couldn't when they were popular and destroy a decent, lighthearted disco-style album. It's not amazing, but it does deserve to be bumped up about 4 stars.