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Two Tracks From Human Zoo Available To Listen; Help With The Lyrics

You can now head over to https://www.facebook.com/pages/Electric-6/154062438761?sk=app_2405167945 to hear two new Electric Six songs in full, ‘(Who The Hell Just) Call My Phone’ and ‘I Need A Restaurant’.

We’ve also started making a stab at the lyrics on our forum. Why not register, e-mail me for approval, and help correct them?

Lyrics: (Who The Hell Just) Call My Phone

Lyrics: I Need A Restaurant

Worldwide Vinyl Crunch Hits Electric Six “Human Zoo”

According to a series of posts on the Electric Six Facebook page the vinyl for their latest album ‘Human Zoo’ will only be available to buy online and at selected UK gigs until possibly spring 2015 for the USA due to a shortage of capacity in vinyl pressers that has meant the latest album is to be pressed in the UK.

See below for the full posts.

A public service announcement for all Crazies who have interest in Electric Six vinyl…due to circumstances beyond our or Metropolis Records’ control, we will not have vinyl copies of “Human Zoo” available for purchase during our upcoming September/October dates. The short version of the long story is that there are relatively few vinyl pressing plants left in the world and with resurgent interest in vinyl from consumers, they’re all overworked and thus timelines end up getting extended for everyone. In fact, it’s so bad that “Human Zoo” isn’t even being pressed in the US. However, the good news is that you can pre-order the vinyl at the link below, regardless of where you live on this great big planet, and Metropolis will deliver it unto you. We have been assured that vinyl available via mail order will be ready to ship on the release date (October 14).

We anticipate (contingent upon availability) having vinyl at our US and Canadian shows in the spring of 2015. To head off the inevitable questions from Europeans, no, we do not anticipate having them for sale at European shows, so if you’re interested, your best option is to order via Metropolis.

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Crazies of the UK…Electric Six is modifying its message from below regarding vinyl in one key way. Electric Six WILL in fact have a limited amount of vinyl available for sale at its UK shows in November and December. Thank the Worldwide Vinyl Crunch which necessitates production of “Human Zoo” vinyl on your continent.

Is this the artwork for Human Zoo?; Orange vinyl available? Tracklisting confirmed

Music website Storm The Base has uploaded artwork that could be the cover for ‘Human Zoo’, Electric Six’s upcoming album.

It also gives it the code of MET 955 and also sells an orange vinyl, giving the date of release as 7th October 2014.

Finally, it confirms this as the tracklisting:

01 Karate Lips
02 It’s Horseshit!
03 Alone with your Body
04 Satanic Wheels
05 Gun Rights
06 I’ve seen Rio in Flames
07 (Who the Hell just) Call My Phone?
08 I need a Restaurant
09 Worst Movie Ever
10 I’m the Devil
11 Good View of the Violence
12 The Afterlife

For more information visit http://www.stormingthebase.com/electric-six-human-zoo-cd/ and http://www.stormingthebase.com/electric-six-human-zoo-vinyl-orange/

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New tracks announced for ‘Human Zoo’

The following songs have been confirmed on the band’s Facebook page for their upcoming album ‘Human Zoo’.

Karate Lips (Opener)
Alone With Your Body
Gun Rights
I’ve Seen Rio in Flames
(Who The Hell Just) Call My Phone
I Need A Restaurant
Worst Movie Ever
The Afterlife (Closer)

The press release, in full below, suggests the album will include fourteen tracks.

The concept of the “human zoo” has existed in art and literature for centuries, thus Electric Six recognizes and accepts it is not breaking new conceptual ground by naming its tenth studio album Human Zoo. It recognizes and accepts that old ground is being broken. Like teeth.

The first known reference to a human zoo is believed to be from the mid-to-middle 12th century, when the famous Flemish monk Wenslaus De Trappe wrote of his base desires to cage human beings and charge money to display them in humiliating fashion in his classic 14 Trappist Monk Tales. From there, the human zoo concept snowballed and could be found everywhere from Restoration literature (Lord Percy Nutton’s Northumberland Abbey), to Nazi propaganda (Die Mensch Zooiedieschennel) to 20th Century American counterculture (Tal Rosenberg’s 20 Days on Acid – I Am a Pinhole Camera), the last of which where the author famously imprisons his lawyer/traveling companion in a cage and places him at the corner of Haight and Ashbury to stand trial for helping contribute to a bad trip.

Electric Six recognizes the legacy of the human zoo concept and throws its hat into the conceptual milieu with a great deal of respect and humility. We do not seek to define the human zoo, nor do we seek to deconstruct it. We seek to explore it. We seek to expand it. And most of all, we seek to sell it to you.

Electric Six recognizes that when men and women are placed in cages and displayed like animals, a power dynamic is being constructed. The human in the cage has his basic rights discarded, his dignity stripped from him, whereas the human who pays to observe other humans establishes his superiority just by casually standing and watching, choosing to leave whenever he likes. In this same way, Electric Six seeks to put itself on display in such a manner that empowers the listener and debases the band all while making everyone feel like partying.

From the opening track “Karate Lips”, Human Zoo takes the listener immediately into a teenage karate tournament for girls as refereed by Def Leppard. The crunchy guitars hit you in the face like a teenage foot and you immediately remember why you purchased or illegally downloaded this latest Electric Six album.

Like many E6 albums, Human Zoo does not have one defining sound, rather it is a sampler’s plate of the entire history of rock and roll music. Like Motown…now we are doing Motown. “Alone With Your Body” is the feel good necrophilia anthem of the summer and it sees the band embracing this oft overlooked section of our hometown’s musical history.

From there we ramble into the spaghetti-western marching band good times of “Gun Rights”, the triumphant Disnification of “I’ve Seen Rio in Flames”, and into the absurd hip hop of “(Who The Hell Just) Call My Phone”. Thrown in a few classic rockers in “I Need A Restaurant” and “Worst Movie Ever” and you’ve got an E6 album, son!

But it’s not an E6 album until the closer is better than the rest of the record combined. The gorgeous, haunting pop of “The Afterlife” might be the greatest thing the band has ever done. Ever.

Okay we said some stuff, told you some song titles, and threw you a few bones. Come on now, buy the record! Who cares about all that other stuff? Have a go, see what happens! Give it a shot! Human Zoo is available on Oct. 14 on Metropolis Records. Come see Electric Six play in your town this fall on the Some Girls Do It for Love tour. Visit electricsix.com for tour dates.