Review:'Electric Six' 'I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That'
- Album: 'Restricts Me From Being The Master'
- Label: 'Metropolis records'
- Genre: 'Rock'
- Release Date: '8.5.26.'
Our Rating:
This is the double album re-issue of Electric Six's classic fourth album from 2007, the first time the album has been on Vinyl, I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master is a bit of a mouthful of a title, but a hell of an album. Electric Six are Dick Valentine, Smorgasbord, Percussion World, Johnny Na$hinal, The Colonel, Tait Nucleus and produced by Zack Shipps.
The album opens with Showtime a proper intro to the wonderfully mad world of the Electric Six and everything they stand for, part vaudeville, part glam rock, a soupcon of prog and a touch of punk, a little bit of swing jazz and a few explosive moments and it's Showtime for the Electric Six.
Down At McDonellzzz they have been thrown out at closing time once more, a piano led tale of how they find the after party, what you have to do to carry on having a blast after hours, while hanging out with Electric Six, falsetto vocals and 80's synths, insistent beats and deeply ingrained need to keep having a good time.
Dance Pattern has them trying to figure out if they got the Dance Pattern right or wrong, it all depends on if you fall into there arms tonight or not. The groovy bassline helps you lope around the dancefloor, while shaking your head at the weird come on lines you're fed, they just want to have fun.
Rip It! Go on just steal that music, whatever you do don't pay for a thing if you can Rip It! They are on a cross-country rampage of theft and appropriation, stolen guitar lines and the glorious feeling that the only way to really get on in life is to be a bigger thief than the politicians who claim to be honest.
Feed My Fuckin Habit is honest that they just need more of that stuff, whatever they have to do to get it, they will, guitars explode, they get properly itchy, begging and pleading, that you did indeed Feed My Fuckin Habit like the full of fame junkies they are.
Riding On The White Train going down those lines like you're on a vacuum express, this slows things down a touch, but the urges at the centre of the world they are celebrating, being able to afford to stay on Riding On The White Train as long as they keep selling records and t-shirts, so don't get too sniffy and enjoy this celebration of a powdered life.
Broken Machine is replies to ever blander interview questions, they are bored by the whole rigmarole, they want to have a meltdown, just to get a reaction from that interviewer, who come from the Broken Machine of the mass media corporations. Vocals have an angry intensity, slightly at odds with the taut guitars and video games synths.
When I Get To the Green Building is reflections on a place that's been no fun since 1960, how have things gone this wrong for so long, will these events be televised or hidden. Randy's Hot Tonight he's out having a blast, you really want to see him going for it, getting blasted all over the world in odd scenarios, while partying like you are even hotter than Randy.
Kukuxumushu is the name of Dick's latest conquest. he can pronounce her name, while screaming oh my god at just what she did to him, but he won't give in and write a love song about you, no he won't, instead it will be this off kilter rollercoaster, namechecking loads of his other girlfriends, like he wants to inspire a jealous rage.
I Don't Like You is an urgent garage rocker for the sort of person who always claims everyone loves them, when actually we all hate them, it could almost be about a politician or two, who turn blue or red at the toss of a coin, Dick just wants them to go away and leave him alone with the glam rock guitars keeping him company.
Lucifer Airlines and the Captain made his announcements through a vocoder, they get totally shizzled on the plane, floating in a neo soul world, with funky guitars, like the airline food was laced with Valium and they are all chilled and relaxed, while you fly into Hades once more.
Lenny Kravitz is a speedy glammy song of praise and disgust, for the wonder of Lenny Kravitz and his weird and wonderful career, still not sure if they love or hate him mind, thankfully it doesn't name check him for most of the song, so you can play it and just marvel at how bonkers it is, until they tell us, they can't understand how anyone loves Lenny Kravitz music!!
Fabulous People revolves around a squelchy bassline and dedication to hanging out with the fabulous people so they can earn loads of cash just for being Fabulous People doing Fabulous things all the time.
Sexy Trash are the people they want to be hanging out with this has a wild glammy no wave intensity, to the highs they seek, in the worldwide freak show supported by drugs and Sexy Trash. The album originally closed with Dirty Looks that is a slow ambient coda like they are coming down from a monster binge, eventually the bassist wakes up funkily, in time for you to make love to someone you shouldn't make love too, this gets louder, weirder and just downright freakily like Electric Six really do, no matter how out of place the sultry sax solo might seem, the rhymes keep on coming.
The bonus tracks begin with The Sheik Don't Lie that has a funky edge to this slightly off-centre claim that The Sheik Don't Lie, that seems like it makes far more sense than claiming a American President don't lie.
One is of course still the loneliest number and in Electric Six's hand this has chugging guitars and an air of celebration for being single again, you've stripped all the psychedelic action out of this classic, making this a cool reworking of Three Dog Night's 60's standard.
Randy's Hot Tonight (Demo) is stripped back electro pop perfect for the dancefloor in its dubby way. Lenny Kravitz (demo) is nicely stripped back allowing the lyrics to shine, leading to that perfect reveal of just how much they hate anyone who thinks Lenny Kravitz is the real deal.
The album closes with Its Showtime (Remix-Stage Intro) that is the prefect thing to play on the speakers as you welcome Electric Six to the stage once more, they burn it to the ground, while you all party together, hopefully before this ends, everyone in the room is dancing and cheering as Dick and the boys come out.
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