Karma Is A Big Mean Animal Looking For Its Next Meal

Electric Six “One Sick Puppy”

Dick Valentine has mentioned in a few recent interviews that his method for writing the lyrics for the Kill album was to build a stockpile of lines and then later on work them into songs. This is a fairly standard approach for lyric writing, but the result here is like a musical equivalent of a Dick Valentine Twitter feed. He’s always churning out bitter one-liners and grotesque absurdity, but songs like “One Sick Puppy” feel violent, overloaded and disconnected, a free-associative stream of cynical jokes and pithy disgust set to a slashing rhythm. This could be the band at their darkest, dialing down narrative and empathy, and diving deep into disappointment, aggression, and hopelessness with a maniacal grin.

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