So after hearing the album Senor Smoke by the Electric Six I was rather dissappointed. Sure, it's kind of hard to top an album with a song called Gay Bar, but the Fire album still had some good albeit gimmicky tracks. Senor Smoke was just... trying too hard maybe? I'm not sure, but I never got into it. Maybe it was because Fire was gimmicky but it was still a fun rock album while Senor Smoke wasn't that catchy and the title track (Radio Ga Ga) was just meh.
So anyways, back the original point of this post before I felt like adding some forced substance. Their new album is actually good (to me at least) and I've found myself listening to it quite often on my way to work (or just now on my way to the liqour store). It has the gimmick that I've come to expect from Electric Six but it also has a decent rock sound to it.
Now though I'm going to have to relisten to Senor Smoke. When I first listened to it I didn't get into it, maybe it will change now, but so far it seems just way too formula driven.
EDIT
So, Senor Smoke isn't "bad", but to me at least it doesn't have any really good hard driving beats. It has some elements of it, but nothing great. And the album does seem to have a lack of honest energy. It also doesn't help that the songs on that album lack for the most part interesting lyrics. After Gay Bar I kind of expected oddly qoutable lyrics.
And I apparently completely forgot about their album Switzerland that came out after Senor Smoke... uh... I guess I'll have to listen to that next.
