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Review: 'Electric Six'
'Bitch, Don't Let Me Die!'   

-  Album: 'Bitch, Don't Let Me Die!' -  Label: 'Metropolis Records'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '2nd October 2015'

Our Rating:
They just keep on crankin’ ‘em out, do Electric Six. And yeah, fair play to ‘em. I can’t say I’m a fan by any stretch: their cornball whackiosity feels every bit as gimmicky now as during the fifteen minutes their comedy rock schtick found them chart success shortly after the turn of the millennium. But here’s the thing: never mind ‘bitch, don’t let me die’ – they simply refuse to, kicking and screaming their way around one endless tour punctuated by an album every eighteen months to two years.

It’s that kind of work ethic that’s served The fall, and The Melvins, well. They too have had fleeting glimpses of broader commercial success, but ultimately, they do what they do, they plough their own furrow and clearly don’t really give a fuck. They have a healthy enough fan-base to sustain them, and it’s hard to knock that.

My opinion, or that of any critic, isn’t worth a scrap: the fans will love this, the rest of the world won’t even know it’s been released.

But, for what it’s worth, it’s a strong album – at least in parts. Opener ‘Drone Strikes’ sounds like ABC covered by AC/DC, and sets the tone for a scuzzed out, snarling blast of sweaty rock with a keen political edge that melts together classic US and gnarly punk to produce something pretty damn compelling.

If the Springsteen-meets-electropop ‘Kids Are Evil’ lacks musical merit, it still packs some lyrical punches. And herein lies my issue with Electric Six: they undermine their strongest songs with some real dreck, and with ‘Slow Motion Man’ coming on like a power-prog rehash of Rick Springfield’s ‘Jessie’s Girl’ and half a dozen other naff 80s rock efforts.

But, for all that, it’s got enough tunes and enough guts to justify its existence, and it sounds like an Electric Six album. Job done.

Electric Six Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Electric Six - Bitch, Don't Let Me Die!