Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey St. between Bowery & Chrystie St.
Friday, October 28, $18-$20, 8:00
212-533-2111
www.boweryballroom.com
www.electricsix.com
Leaning more on the synth-heavy dance rock that has long made them a party-band favorite— who doesn’t love “Gay Bar”? — genre-melting Detroit funk-pop rockers Electric Six are back with an explosive new disc, Heartbeats and Brainwaves! (Metropolis, October 11, 2011). Their eighth studio album oozes hot sex, rife with single and double entendres while channeling Nick Cave, Prince, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne, and even Phil Collins. “Bodies bouncing on the floor / Everybody getting’ wild / Gonna show my dirty style / You better show me what that body’s for / You’re born to beguile / Hit the volume on your dial / Yeah, the dime is dropping on ya,” bandleader Dick Valentine sings on “It Gets Hot,” while on “Interchangeable Knife” he proclaims, “I’m gonna make you howl like a trailer-park wife / on the first day of her new life.” On “The Intergalactic Version” he might repeat “We write the same song over and over again,” but that is far from the case, with all six band members — vocalist Dick Valentine, drummer Percussion World, guitarists Johnny Na$hinal and the Colonel, bassist Smorgasbord, and synth master Tait Nucleus? — contributing to the songwriting process, which ranges from demonic goth rock and raucous heavy metal to ’80s MTV power pop and bootie-shaking funk. Electric Six brings its high-energy Hello, Destructor!!!! tour, named for a line in “Hello! I See You!” (“Hello, destructor! I’m yours for the destroying”), to Bowery Ballroom on Friday night, with Kitten and New York Rivals also on the bill. Perhaps Valentine says it best in this piece of promo copy about Heartbeats and Brainwaves!: “It manages to be so entertaining that you completely forget that your limits of time/space comprehension render you completely unable to answer why you are really here.”