Normally this would lead to a lack of overall artistic cohesion, even though one might expect each band member’s contribution to be especially dense with inspiration.Īlas, nothing here will find a home in your next party’s playlist. Some triple-dipped, which resulted in a 14-track final product. Heartbeats and Brainwaves was written in an unusual way - Dick Valentine asked each of Electric Six’s members to write at least two songs.
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And the song’s chorus, though catchy, certainly doesn’t approach the greatness of earlier Electric Six earworms.
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Instead, it adds up to a muddled montage of imagery. Valentine croons, I’m never good at saying the right things / sometimes I say too much / sometimes I feel like a puppet with no strings / desperate and dying for your touch.īut this potentially interesting love song is so drenched in the mandatory manly non sequiturs it utterly fails to tell a cohesive story. Take, for example, the second track, “French Bacon.” This tells a tragic story of two people, the narrator and a nameless girl, who are tangled in a contradictory relationship: a painful attachment they both need. What results is an unfortunate compromise, a muted-sounding rendition of its older dumb-but-fun style that is at best unevenly enjoyable. In Heartbeats and Brainwaves, Electric Six tries to extricate itself, but also can’t quite pull itself away, from the now-worn unabashed manliness of its early days. Electric Six is older now, and evidently getting tired of the testosterone rock trimmings that long underpinned its popularity.
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This is surprising for a band that once reveled in dumbness. At one point in the track, frontman Dick Valentine sings I’m the king of the submarines / making terrible music for teens. Heartbeats and Brainwaves’ opener “Psychic Visions” seemingly constitutes an admission of wrongdoing.