In an era when a lot of music has scaled back and become overly somber, Electric Six has revived the concept of “more is more.” Their high-energy guitar, shimmering banks of synthesizers and humor — featuring equal measures of tongue and cheek — have reinvented the Rock experience as a contemporary high-energy vaudeville act.
The Detroit sextet’s fifth studio album, the recently released Flashy, is a case in point, running the gamut from the horn-driven bullring Rock of “Gay Bar Pt. 2” (the sequel to their 2003 hit single), the Funk blasting “Dirty Ball,” the Beck-on-Disco thump of “Your Heat is Rising” and the Roxy Music freakout of “Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart.”
Frontman Dick Valentine, the band’s remaining original member, claims there was only one specific goal with the new album. Read a full interview here.
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2008.
