Switzerland by Electric Six

Switzerland, Electric Six's third album, hit American shelves through Metropolis Records on September 12, 2006, then rolled out across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The Detroit band had built its name on a gleeful pile-up of punk, disco, metal and garage rock with a new wave sheen, and Dick Valentine, co-founder, lead singer, chief songwriter and the one member who never left, was still the ringmaster, with The Colonel, John R. Dequindre and Percussion World among the stage-named crew behind him.

The band made a point of noting that, for once, no song title mentioned dancing, then promptly reassured fans that drugs, girls, parties and the night still got plenty of billing. Exhibit A is "I Buy the Drugs", which got a video shot on July 1, 2006, premiered on the band's MySpace page in early August and went up as a download on August 15. Coming hot off Señor Smoke, it's the sound of a band flatly refusing to sober up.

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