Electrelane

I bought No Shouts No Calls after reading Nick Southall's constant recommendations. I've never heard anything by them before but I love this album so much and it's a shame I'll never get to see them live. So thanks Electrelane for the great album, and thanks Nick for the recommendation!

I only saw them once around the time of Rock It To The Moon, wish I'd made an effort to see them more recently, they got so much better since that album :(

I've spent almost this entire year abroad, far away from home and this has been the one album that I've come back to, on long train rides and before going to bed. I'm happy that I got to see them one last time and that they are going out on the highest note possible, but as my time in Germany is coming to a close and with the announcement of their hiatus, I can't help but to feel a certain sadness by the coincidence.

I heard it from the valleys, I heard it ringing in the mountains...

such a great band. been relistening to their albums the past 24 hours, and i think No Shouts No Calls is definitely a high water mark for the band, and very likely to make my year-end top ten.

That sounds like damning with faint praise!

how is that in any way *damning*?? i said they are great, i've been revisiting their stuff (all of which i own, and enjoy to various degrees), and that their latest is their best work yet. wtf!

I dunno - maybe you really love many more albums in a year than I do. To me, if a band's high watermark album isn't even sure to make my top ten of the year, that's not particularly high praise, is all!

i can usually find 10-12 albums in a given year that i really, really think are fabulous. this year i have about 12 last i thought about it, and the Electrelane is fantastic, but not quite on the level, say, of my favorite 5 albums of the year. still a great album, but toward the lower end of my top 10, probably.

KRAUTROCK-TINGED INDIES LIKE THE MESSAGE-BOARD GAME.
THEY ALWAYS COME HOME. RIP.

I weirdly don't care much for them in general, but DAMN. People don't love/mention "The Valleys" enough.

the valleys is amazing.

it is

If I love "the Valleys" by Electrelane what else would I love?

This summer we're going to play some festivals, including Field Day in London, and a few gigs. We're still confirming everything, so will be announcing dates soon. It's very exciting for us to be playing together again after more than three years, and we're just sorry that we won't be able to make it to the US this time. At the moment our plan is just to play live this summer, so we hope to see you!

:) :) :) :)

wonderful.

And that Field Day line up is FINE.

what have they done separately in the last four years, besides making my <3 grow fonder?

awesome!!!

:D

One of them had a band, I seem to remember hearing some stuff on myspace or something. The keyboardist maybe? Can't remember what it was called though.

So thrilled that they are back, but crushed about that no U.S. thing

would love to see them. Totally ignored them the first time around.

Saw them open for the Arcade Fire in a theater here and they very nearly blew the headliners off the stage it was amazing.

Seen them live twice and they are GREBT. Hoorays all around!

what have they done separately in the last four years

Bassist Ros Murray has put out a solo(ish) album and a couple of 7"s under the name Ray Rumours.

I am sort of excited here because I've been missing them, but the one time I saw them (before the final lineup, so pre-Ros) was kind of shaky so I don't want to get too excited, but I can well believe they tightened up considerably since that. Especially if ILXors say so!

Mia put out a record with one of The Ex, a guitar improv type thing, was pretty sweet.

Ros is/was? also in Trash Kit. Who are quite fun live.

Trash Kit are excellent if a little one trick and prone to the occasional lyrical clunker. Very Raincoats.

verity has a solo proj. called vera november or something

Played I Want To Be The President last night at our Devon Record Club, went down really well, neither of the other guys knew them except by name. Some cognitive dissonance caused by me mentioning that they then recorded an album with Albini & a choir...

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/01/15/electrelane-the-power-out-2004-no-shouts-no-calls-2007/

I miss Electrelane too.

https://soundcloud.com/verity-susman

I wish I'd got to see them live later in their career. I saw them circa 1st album which is OK but I like the later stuff better.

I did see Trash Kit last year some time. They were good but not the same kind of thing at all.

oh wow, i so need to listen to some electrelane about now.

I totally just listened to that album.

I love the first album, for me Electrelane are one of them select bands that are beyond criticism.

I wish they'd toured the states.

They're great through-and-through although I wish they'd released a whole album in the same genre-study psych style as The Valleys, which is nothing like their other stuff while managing to transcend their oeuvre entirely.

I wish they'd toured the states.

― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:47 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Steve they did! I saw them here in Boston in either 2007 or 2008 and they were amazing.

I feel like they, along with Saint Etienne, Stereolab, and a few others, occupied this tier of "high-brow indie" that was very intelligent and exempt from questioning or critique.

That sounds like you want to critique them?

I wish they'd released a whole album in the same genre-study psych style as The Valleys

That would be an incredible album.

xp no, I adore them!

Good!

one of the fewest bands i love even though they sounds EXACTLY like other bands before them (stereolab and faith healers)

Wow, I'm putting Axes on right this very second!!

"to the east" is all-time

Wow, I'm putting Power Out on right this very second!