Metro Times, April 30, 2025
I Lost Control (of My Rock & Roll) 7inch

Garageadelica

Leading this super subrock group of Wÿtchÿker and Rocket 455 members, Electric Six (formerly The Wildbunch)'s Jackson Pounder and his coven of lo-fi mystics parade through the transistor world of Syd Barrett hallucinations with all the awe-struck terror and majesty of a failed space probe, hurtling deeper into oblivion on its own doomed kinetic energy. Shambolically triumphant, Electric Six (formerly The Wildbunch) pays homage to the Barrett/Captian Beefheart/Roky Erikson school of rusted but dusted sonic troubadors with tilted arrangements and wide-eyed confidence. "Don't Be Afraid of the Robot" says it all: acid-fried cold war ominousness just one hit from stoned paranoia; Spencer seethes like a madman, the band mixes dirty needle leads over a shrewd garage shimmy. Anything more out there'd already be on the Hale Bopp Express. Beam up, turn out, tune up.


Hobey Echlin