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The song landed at number two on the - where else? - UK charts, and now they’ve released an album as Electric Six, Fire, which of course, includes “Danger! High Voltage”. This history seems a little more believable: The band formed in Detroit in the late ’90s under the moniker the Wildbunch (a name they were forced to change to Electric Six when the Massive Attack crew came calling for it), released a handful of shitty albums, then finally struck gold in 2001 when “Danger! High Voltage” found its way onto 2 Many DJ’s As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pmix CD. None of this actually helps determine how good an album Fire is, but hey, it’s funny, and it’s shines some light on what kind of deviants we’ve got on our hands. For instance, Valentine “bears some symptoms of schizophrenia” (this may be true: his voice runs from joky-sexy growl to full-blown falsetto), while Rock-N-Roll Indian “may have been raised in the wild, and by monkeys”. The band bio notes that the group was formed, boy-band like, based on their individual psychological profiles.
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If nothing else, the E-6 have a kickass sense of humor. With a mountain of hype built largely on the UK chart success of the Jack White-aided two-year-old single “Danger! High Voltage” (see more below), the Electric Six - bassist Disco, drummer M., rhythm guitarist Surge Joebot, lead guitarist Rock-N-Roll Indian, keyboardist Tait Nucleus and lead singer Dick Valentine - are ready to start anew a stateside battle among critics on the merits of irony rock. AWK’s quasi-ironic I Get Wet alienated as many critics as it won over and the E-6 are bound to be no different. The bad news: They’re this year’s Andrew W.K. First, the good news: They’re this year’s Andrew W.K. Depending on your point of view, there’s some good news and some bad news about Fire, the sleazy, glammy, garage-y, disco-ey and otherwise batshit-insane album from Detroit-based band Electric Six.