Review
Flashy
(Metropolis)
Release Date: 10/21/2008 12:00
Reviewed by Rob Harvilla
Forget Saw V, Grand Theft Auto IV or “The Unforgiven III.” Feast your ears on “Gay Bar Part Two,” a raucous, sleazy, horn-skronking reprise of the classiest song on Electric Six’s 2003 debut. Reborn, the track leads off the sardonic sextet’s fifth album of apocalyptic buffoonery shot through with metal, new wave and disco, all of it hilarious, none of it a joke. Lest the lurid occult-lesbian-fantasy “We Were Witchy Witchy White Women” or the crass single-entendre fiasco “Dirty Ball” give you the wrong idea, sly political subversion abounds here: “Face Cuts” does not advocate rhinoplasty, “Heavy Woman” does not advocate obesity and “Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart” is probably not about North Korea. It’s a beguiling mash-up of the Stooges and the Three Stooges, and Electric Six deserve extra credit for rhyming trash can with Tajikistan.

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