Electric Six. The most reliable act in show business, there was simply no question that each year would bring another Electric Six record. Mayans based their calendar on it.
Migrating birds used the new Electric Six record as a homing device. Small time criminals got four to seven E6 albums with time off for wonderful behaviour.
In a business so fickle, so unreliable, so difficult to navigate, the only constant was Electric Six. There was always an album a year. Until there wasn’t.
Five years has gone by….and Electric Six has heard the chatter. “Electric Six just doesn’t have it anymore.” “Electric Six has really let me down.
Gotye will have an album before Electric Six does.” As we all know, talk is cheap. Bullshit walks.
Now there is a new goddamn Electric Six record ready to go and it’s good, Jack. Real good. Behold! ‘Turquoise’ is here, marking the long-awaited return of Electric Six!
Perhaps the band’s catchiest, brightest album, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole. The pandemic slowed us all down and ripped time into shreds.
It forced E6 to take a little time to look at itself in the mirror. Who did they see staring back? It saw Electric Six. It saw ‘Turquoise’.
Electric Six certainly felt the need to tap into the collective feelings of the time in songs like ‘Panic! Panic!’ and the title track.
The overall vibe of ‘Turquoise’ ranges from the infectious pop of ‘Take Me To The Sugar’ and ‘Staten Island Ass Squad’, to the heavy rock of ‘Child Of Hunger’ and ‘Skywriting’, to the Springsteeny goodness of ‘Units of Time’. Electric Six is a band for all tastes, all times and all sizes.
When a band finally makes an album this exciting, it doesn’t need to do anything else anymore anytime soon ever again. But it will. Electric Six can never die. It’s still the band that does one album a year… if you re-define ‘year’. Which we do.
Electric Six will play a UK/RoI tour in November and December to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their chartbusting debut album, ‘Fire’, which was home to the hit singles ‘Danger! High Voltage’, ‘Gay Bar’ and ‘Dance Commander’. The set will see the entire record performed in its entirety, as well as fan favourites and new songs.
TURQUOISE
TRACKLISTING
1 Take Me To The Sugar
2 Dr. K
3 Hot Numbers On The Telephone
4 Panic! Panic!
5 Turquoise
6 Skyrocketing
7 Born To Be Ridiculed
8 Child Of Hunger
9 Staten Island Ass Squad
10 Window Of Time
11 Units Of Time
12 Five Clowns
13 The Browning Of Her Bones
14 The Wheel Finds A Way
TAKE ME TO THE SUGAR
out 01.09.23
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ELECTRIC SIX
Dick Valentine – vocals
Johnny Na$hinal – lead guitar, backing vocals
Tait Nucleus? – keyboards, backing vocals
Herb S. Flavourings – rhythm guitar
Rob Lower – bass
Dr. J – drums
