Or in Electric Six’s case, you just plug them in and dance along with them. With their sixth album, KILL, Electric Six have stopped avoiding their past, gleefully re-entering the nuclear disco of their debut album FIRE, albeit with the wisdom of seven years under their belts. Giving themselves permission to sound like their first album allowed Valentine and his crew to go into the studio with nothing off-limits. That doesn’t mean that it made KILL a seven-year rehash of FIRE by any means it just gave them a more complete pool of ideas from which to draw inspiration. The fact that both albums’ titles are a single word is not coincidental. And like FIRE, KILL seems to sum up the attitude of the album: loud and aggressive.ĭespite proposing several titles for the newest CD, including Sign of the Beefcarver as reported in a Popshifter interview with head Six-man Dick Valentine, the group returned to their initial method of choosing their title from the word that stands out the most in their lyrics.
In fact, KILL is louder and more aggressive than E6 have been in quite a while.
