Mimicry and Memories
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| Studio and compilation double album by Electric Six | ||||
| Released | March 2015 (online only) | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
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Mimicry and Memories is a double-album by Electric Six with disc one, Mimicry, a covers studio album, and disc two, Memories, consisting of demos, B-sides and rarities by the band. It was funded through a Kickstarter campaign and self-released directly to the campaign's backers.
The band launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $25,000 in order to fund the album. It was successful with a total of $64,977 being raised.
Each member of the band chose a song to cover on the Mimicry portion of the album. Dick Valentine selected "Ah! Leah!" by Donnie Iris, Smorgasbord selected "The Look" by Roxette, Da Ve selected "Buckingham Green" by Ween, Tait Nucleus? selected "I Got the Six" by ZZ Top, Percussion World selected "Do You Love Me? by Kiss and Johnny Na$hinal selected Girl Wants To Be With the Girls by Talking Heads.
One specific pledge reward as part of the Kickstarter campaign was to choose a song to be covered on the album. The four songs chosen by fans through this method were "Turn Me Loose" by Loverboy, "Rockets" by Tomas Ford, "Stuck In a Closet with Vanna White" by "Weird Al" Yakovic and "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" by David Bowie.
As a stretch goal, the project's backers were given the option to vote for an additional cover to be included. The options were "Everywhere" by Fleetwood Mac (which the band were performing in live shows as the time), "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins and "In the Dark" by Billy Squier. "Everywhere" won the vote and was included on the album. Due to the tight vote, a second stretch goal was announced allowing backers to vote for one of the two losing songs to also be included. "Easy Lover" won the vote and was included.
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