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I wish there were more vocals; that might endear them to me more.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

get the last album then. it's perfect.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i've listened to this album once, and moments of it are stunning. the male voice choir stuff towards the end ("i keep losing heart" and seemingly buried in the mix with the banjos and kitchen sinks on the final track) is just joyous.

this:
it's odd that I've lost interest in every other band with this sound I used to like, but Electrelane are still so compelling.

is OTM inna OTM stylee.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

second listen now in progress while i PACK for my HOLIDAY, hurrah.

"two for joy" is the pinnacle of the whole post-krautrock thang. what's it reminding me of? the "aaaaAAAaaaaaAAAAaaaaAAAAAAaaaaahhhh" thing? probably just stereolab, but there's something else.

o wow, the big organ at the end. god, i love this song.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

There's an article on them in the Wire this month. There's a comment where they say something along the lines of "We wanted to deliberately break from the winning formula of our last record" which reminds me a lot of something Mark E Smith would say (and do.)

I feel I am the only who not only loves "Business or Otherwise," but finds it totally hilarious.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

They're playing Glasgow on Monday. I am a bit scared of this "rubbish live" thing. I have no idea how they do the choir thing in concert.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm getting round that problem by not going to see them. too much to do before i go away etc.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

St Tropez tan, yes?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

[pssssshhh] ... gaah, rumbled.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 14 May 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think they were that bad at all when I saw them live.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Were they actively good?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

They were actively good when I saw them live, but that was before they'd done any choir stuff at all - loud chunky 4/4 riffs and big organ noises. They've got a surprising amount of stage presence.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm bummed. not as good as the last one. nothing like "the valleys" sadly

― breezy, Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah this album totally blows

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wait...on second listen i really like it.
the only thing that's fucking it up is the blank spaces at the end of the songs.
those are only on the advanced copies right?

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, each track is supposed to be sequed into the next one.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 21 May 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone have the retail version on slsk?

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 21 May 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

superyawn

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

is that the correct spelling?
cause nothing's coming up when i try to add him to my list.

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(rim shot)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 23 May 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

..............

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Monday, 23 May 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like this album. It is overall a lot better than the Power Out although The Valleys will remain my favourite song by them unless they do something incredible. I think it's definitely a step away from the previous album, less post-punk, more Sonic Youth and Stereolab but not really. I really like the cover art too for some reason.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 23 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

this album is in no way The Power Out, one of the most perfect/gorgeous/rockin albums i've heard in the past couple of years. this seems more like an in-between experiment gone right. "bells" and "two for joy" as openers are equal to anything on power out, and "the partisan" is a fun piece of rock-my-socks-off. then the intrumental stuff is strictly down the line. some of it (the beginning half of "if not now, when?" "eight steps", "atom's tomb," and the amazing closer "suitcase") is just great, while other bits (the second half of "if not now, when", "those pockets of people") are merely mediocre. and then there is the laughable, completely unlistenable "business or otherwise". you can almost make out albini's cackle in the background. what a fuckin piece of garbage, fucks up the whole album. finally "i keep losing heart" is stunning. unmudied lake-type stunning.

so. that's what i think of the album. frustratingly inconsistant, but worth it for the majority of the tracks, which are for the most part excellent. electrelane is a band that seems to consistantly put out music that is proegressive, interesting, and compelleing. and it's pretty and kicks ass alot too.

― rockaction (rockaction), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

is this like... a holocaust album?

― s1ocki, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

I'm learning "I Keep Losing Heart" on banjo!

― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Friday, 7 June 2019 00:25 (six years ago)

I like that song

all four of their albums were spectacular in my opinion

― Dan S, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:29 (six years ago)

^ they rule

― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 7 June 2019 00:36 (six years ago)

I should listen to the first album again. I'd been put off of it by a middling review (probably from AMG), but recently hearing a few isolated tracks from it has been ear-opening.

― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Friday, 7 June 2019 00:44 (six years ago)

This album was always a hit whenever I played it in the bar I worked.

― Yerac, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:49 (six years ago)

unfortunately it's the only one of theirs i own, and one of the records is warped. if i get drunk enough i can convince myself it's mildly psychedelic, but in a normal state it's nauseating to listen to.

― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 7 June 2019 00:50 (six years ago)

lol

― Dan S, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:51 (six years ago)

hard to believe they were so ignored, it makes me suspicious of the whole narrative of the 2000-2009 era

― Dan S, Friday, 7 June 2019 01:09 (six years ago)

I put The Valleys and To the East (other albums) on sooooo many mixes. I don't know why they weren't as big/bigger than Stereolab.

― Yerac, Friday, 7 June 2019 01:13 (six years ago)

*bowing*

― Dan S, Friday, 7 June 2019 01:17 (six years ago)

Was hoping this revive was about a reunion, I think I had a dream about that years ago.

― Eid y’self Fitr (JoeStork), Friday, 7 June 2019 01:52 (six years ago)

You mean in 2011-2012?

― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Friday, 7 June 2019 16:50 (six years ago)

But gods I wish they'd get back together too, I missed all my chances to see them live.

― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Friday, 7 June 2019 16:50 (six years ago)

Good band

― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 7 June 2019 21:03 (six years ago)

I saw them early on, about 2001, but I'd love to have seen them again later - the first album isn't bad but it's my least favourite (which is unusual for me, I'm usually the early-stuff-is-better guy)

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 7 June 2019 21:09 (six years ago)

Axes is my favourite of theirs because it's so, like, audacious in its structure

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 7 June 2019 21:29 (six years ago)

The series of instrumentals into the Cohen cover is one of my favourite sequences on a rock album

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 7 June 2019 21:29 (six years ago)

So in between "Bells" and "The Partisan"?

Serious question: is the album title supposed to be the plural for axis or ax?

― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:23 (six years ago)

Ya. I guess it's a lot of instrumentals! I love this approach. I think the title means both

― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 8 June 2019 21:07 (six years ago)

'business or otherwise' is one of the genuinely most out-there compositions by a uk rock band in living memory

― imago, Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:52 (six years ago)

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