Señor Smoke is the second album from Electric Six, following
Fire 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 that
resulted in Señor Smoke's 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 Magazine that
claims that the album is so good that "achieves an advance modern medicine
has long pursued: it restores virginity."
