Switzerland (album)

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Switzerland is the title of the third album by Detroit rock band Electric Six.

The album consists of thirteen new tracks. The band commented that:

[...] for the first time, none of the songs have the word "dance" or variation of "dance" in the title. But fear not. We have songs with "drugs" and "girls" and "tonight" and "night" and "louder" and "party" in the title, so we haven't given up on our philosophy just yet.

A music video for the song "I Buy the Drugs" was recorded on July 1, 2006 and was released on their MySpace site in early August. A digital download of the track followed on August 15, 2006.

The album was released on 12 September 2006 in the United States and was followed by releases in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.

Track listing

All lyrics by Tyler Spencer. All musical composition by Tyler Spencer except where noted.

1. "The Band in Hell" – 3:19
2. "I Buy the Drugs" – 3:22
3. "Mr. Woman" – 2:52
4. "Night Vision" – 4:03
5. "Infected Girls" (Peters/Shipps) – 3:29
6. "Pulling the Plug on the Party" – 2:54
7. "Rubber Rocket" (Tait) – 3:37
8. "Pink Flamingos" – 2:42
9. "I Wish This Song Was Louder" – 3:14
10. "Slices of You" (Nash) – 4:17
11. "There's Something Very Wrong With Us, So Let's Go Out Tonight" – 4:23
12. "Germans in Mexico" – 3:01
13. "Chocolate Pope" – 1:02

The Australian release of the album under label Inertia Records contains a fourteenth track, a Midnight Juggernauts remix of "The Future Is in the Future" from the band's album Señor Smoke.

Music videos

Lead singer Dick Valentine stated in an interview that the band intends to record a video for every song on the album, "a lot of them...low budget.", however these plans have not been abandoned. Seven official videos were released:

• "I Buy the Drugs", hosted at YouTube
  • Dick Valentine's commentary on the video
• "Chocolate Pope", hosted at YouTube
• "Mr. Woman", hosted at YouTube.
• "Pulling the Plug on the Party", hosted at YouTube
• "There's Something Very Wrong With Us So Let's Go Out Tonight", hosted at YouTube
• "Rubber Rocket", hosted at YouTube.
• "Infected Girls", hosted at YouTube

In addition to the official videos released by the band, Electric Six also hosted a contest for the best fan video for the first single on the album, "I Buy the Drugs." Several winning videos were posted on the band's MySpace page but have since been removed.

Trivia

• The last 25 seconds of the track "Infected Girls" includes a girl telling the story from "Pleasing Interlude I" (a track from the band's second album, Señor Smoke) in Lithuanian.
• Lead singer Dick Valentine has stated that the name Switzerland was chosen because he had never been there, and hoped that the band would be invited to tour. As of February 2009, Electric Six is scheduled to tour Switzerland in March.
• The album was dedicated to the Swiss tennis player Roger Federer.

External links

• Metropolis Mail Order: album review and track listing