With its '70s disco groove, theatrical vocals, sex-obsessed lyrics and camp video complete with illuminating cod-pieces, Danger! High Voltage is straight out of the Rocky Horror guidebook to novelty records.
To dismiss it purely as a joke, however, would be to do it a disservice, even if the band members of this Detroit five-piece do go by such names as "Dick Valentine", "Disco", "Surge Joebot", "M" and "The Rock and Roll Indian".
Danger! High Voltage is as immediate a song as you will hear all year, but a clever one at that as it masterfully manages to blend retro funk, new wave and histrionic rock.
Unsurprisingly, the more orthodox, ragged, sleaze punk B-sides are somewhat less inspired than the main track. Nevertheless, there is more than enough quality here to suggest that the length of Electric Six's impending fame may stretch to substantially more than the proverbial fifteen minutes.
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