Nite Songs

  "Like Jimmy Carter, like electric underwear/A canny idea that never had the chance to go anywhere..."  - Electric Six  - Jimmy Carter One thing you find when you're putting SFTJ's together, especially for the years where your memory's a bit...erm, waxed shall we say, is that you often find yourself having to move the timelines you thought were correct around in your head a bit. For example, as we move on to 2003, I'd kind of had it in my head that the garage rock revival headed up by the Strokes and the White Stripes had already started to peter out the previous year. Looking at some of the entries we've got coming up in the next few weeks, I may have remembered that slightly wrong as there's definitely a few bands who fall into that category coming up in the near future. For this entry though, we're moving west from New York to Detroit. Electric Six were one of a number of bands who broke through in 2003-04 sort of time thanks to Jack White'...

  It's rare that a year passes without us getting sent an Electric Six album to review but perhaps unsurprisingly given the pandemic, 2020 was indeed that year. So to make up for lost time, the band are putting two albums out this year with this covers album to be followed before the end of December by an album of originals. As with a lot of covers albums, this is very much a mixed bag. Sad to say that unfortunately there's a fair few clunkers on here - Dick Valentine's voice really doesn't suit the group's covers of Fleetwood Mac's Little Lies  or the Jam's That's Entertainment  leaving them both as being somewhat painful on the ears while their takes on INXS' Don't Change  and Talking Heads' Slippery People  are just dull frankly. Most disappointing though is their cover of Kiss' Strutter  which should have been an open goal for E6 but just completely lacks the punch of the original. There are also re-recordings of Danger High Voltage  ...