Señor Smoke

Infobox Album
Name = Señor Smoke
Type = studio
Artist = Electric Six


Background = Orange
Released = start date|2005|2|14
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 43:02
Label = WEA
Producer = Peters & Peters
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rc6wtr4yklox link]
*Drowned In Sound Rating-10|1 [http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/12400.html link]
*Entertainment.ie Rating|3|5 [http://www.entertainment.ie/reviews/review.asp?ID=3749&subcat=CD link]
*"NME" Rating-10|3 February 16, 2005
*"The Onion" AV Club (B) [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/45664 link]
*Pitchfork Media Rating-10|4.4 [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17418/ link]
*"PopMatters" Rating-10|6 [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/the_electric_six/ link]
*"Prefix Magazine" Rating|2|5 [http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/cds/E/Electric-Six/Se%F1or-Smoke/2015 link]
*Tiny Mix Tapes Rating|1|5 [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/e/electric_six.htm link]
*"The Village Voice" (ambivalent) [http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0532,barthel,66649,22.html link]
Last album = "Fire"
(2003)
This album = "Señor Smoke"
(2005)
Next album = "Switzerland"
(2006)

"Señor Smoke" (2005) is the second album from Electric Six, following "Fire" in 2003. It was released in the UK February 14, 2005 by Warner Music imprint Rushmore Records. Due to complications with Electric Six's former record label, Rushmore did not release the album in North America.

In December 2005, the band announced a new partnership with Metropolis Records that resulted in "Señor Smoke"'s North American release on February 7, 2006.

"Señor Smoke" was ravaged by the UK press upon its 2005 release. However, the response to the album has been much more enthusiastic in America, with several positive reviews, including one from the March 2006 issue of "Blender" Magazine that claims that the album (which received four stars) is so good that " [it] achieves an advance modern medicine has long pursued: it restores virginity."

The album's title honors Aurelio López, a former relief pitcher of the Detroit Tigers. [ [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/22/102318.php Interview: "How Do You Rock So Hard?" — Electric Six] , Blogcritics.org, February 22, 2006, by Tiffany Leigh.] [ [http://www.artrocker.com/articles/interviews/interview2.shtml Electric Six: Interview with Dick Valentine] , Artrocker, by Kaoru Sato.]

Track listing

#"Rock and Roll Evacuation" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/01_hi.rm sample]
#"Devil Nights" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/02_hi.rm sample]
#"Bite Me" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/03_hi.rm sample]
#"Jimmy Carter" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/04_hi.rm sample]
#"Pleasing Interlude I" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/05_hi.rm sample]
#"Dance Epidemic" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/06_hi.rm sample]
#"Future Boys" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/07_hi.rm sample]
#"Dance-A-Thon 2005" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/08_hi.rm sample]
#"Be My Dark Angel" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/09_hi.rm sample]
#"Vibrator" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/10_hi.rm sample]
#"Boy Or Girl?" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/11_hi.rm sample]
#"Pleasing Interlude II" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/12_hi.rm sample]
#"Radio Ga Ga" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/13_hi.rm sample]
#"Taxi to Nowhere" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/14_hi.rm sample]
#"Future Is in the Future" [http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/timeinc/uk/ipcmedia/nme/audio/05/feb/esix/15_hi.rm sample]

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