Electric Six - Human Zoo (2014)

The concept of the human zoo has existed in art and literature for centuries,thus Electric Six recognizes and accepts it is not breaking new conceptual ground by naming its tenth studio album Human Zoo.It recognizes and accepts that old ground is being broken.Like teeth.

The first known reference to a human zoo is believed to be from the mid-to-middle 12th century,when the famous Flemish monk Wenslaus De Trappe wrote of his base desires to cage human beings and charge money to display them in humiliating fashion in his classic 14 Trappist Monk Tales.From there,the human zoo concept snowballed and could be found everywhere from Restoration literature (Lord Percy Nutton's Northumberland Abbey),to Nazi propaganda(Die Mensch Zooiedieschennel) to 20th Century American Counter culture (Tal Rosenberg's 20 Days on Acid I Am a Pinhole Camera),the last of which where the author famously imprisons his lawyer/traveling companion in a cage and places him at the corner of Haight and Ashbury to stand trial for helping contribute to a bad trip.