Señor Smoke is the second album from Electric Six

Electric Six

Electric Six is a six-piece metro Detroit-based band that plays what has been described as a brand of rock music infused with elements of "garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal." The band met recognition in 2003 with the singles "Danger! High Voltage" and "Gay Bar", and subsequently recorded...

, following Fire

Fire (Electric Six album)

Fire is the debut album of Electric Six, released in 2003.The album received generally positive critical reviews. Rolling Stone called the album "the summer's most brilliantly demented party record" and Blender hailed the music as "convincingly ferocious"...

 in 2003. It was released in the UK February 14, 2005 by Warner Music imprint Rushmore Records. Due to complications with Electric Six's former record label, Rushmore did not release the album in North America.

In December 2005, the band announced a new partnership with Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres....

 that resulted in Señor Smokes North American release on February 7, 2006.

Señor Smoke was ravaged by the UK press upon its 2005 release. However, the response to the album has been much more enthusiastic in America, with several positive reviews, including one from the March 2006 issue of Blender

Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....

 Magazine that claims that the album (which received four stars) is so good that "[it] achieves an advance modern medicine has long pursued: it restores virginity."

Track listing

All lyrics written by Tyler Spencer except for "Radio Ga Ga"; all music composed by Tyler Spencer except where noted.

1. "Rock and Roll Evacuation" (3:36)
2. "Devil Nights" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (2:56)
3. "Bite Me" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:57)
4. "Jimmy Carter" (3:27)
5. "Pleasing Interlude I" (0:47)
6. "Dance Epidemic" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (2:48)
7. "Future Boys" (3:08)
8. "Dance-A-Thon 2005" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:29)
9. "Be My Dark Angel" (3:17)
10. "Vibrator" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (2:31)
11. "Boy Or Girl?" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:26)
12. "Pleasing Interlude II" (0:27)
13. "Radio Ga Ga
    Radio Ga Ga
    "Radio Ga Ga" is a 1984 song performed and recorded by the British rock band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor‎. It was released as a single with "I Go Crazy" by Brian May on the original B-side and was included on the album The Works...
    
    " (Taylor) (3:55)
14. "Taxi to Nowhere" (1:39)
15. "Future Is in the Future" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:37)

Trivia

• The album's title honors Aurelio López
  Aurelio López
  Aurelio Alejandro López was a Mexican relief pitcher. Over the course of an eleven year Major League career , he acquired the nickname "Señor Smoke" in Detroit due to his Mexican heritage and his overpowering fastball, which had been measured as high as 93 mph.-Early career:Born in Tecamachalco,...
  
  , a former relief pitcher of the Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
  
  .
• "Vibrator" was released as a free download-only single on the 18th of October 2004 to help promote the album. This was later revealed to be a "Download Mix" as opposed to the album version.
• The song "Bite Me" borrows the line "[I] have accountants pay for it all" from the Joe Walsh song, "Life's Been Good".
• The song "Jimmy Carter" humorously borrows the line "Backstreet's back alright" from "Everybody" by The Backstreet Boys.
• The song "Dance-A-Thon 2005" was retired from the band's live performances after 2005, however it returned in 2009 with the words changed to "Dance-A-Thon 2009".
• The song "Dance-A-Thon 2005" reprises the lines "I want to reach into the fire of your heart, I want to program all those beats right from the start, have you ever been to New York City? New York City!" from "Improper Dancing", a song on Electric Six
  Electric Six
  Electric Six is a six-piece metro Detroit-based band that plays what has been described as a brand of rock music infused with elements of "garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal." The band met recognition in 2003 with the singles "Danger! High Voltage" and "Gay Bar", and subsequently recorded...
  
  's previous album "Fire".
• The song "Taxi to Nowhere" originated from the band's days as "The Wildbunch".