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the guitarist is the one & only mia clarke of the wire, I think

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Albini's production on that album is excellent.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

when I saw them the set was driven, I thought all the talk of 'kinesis' and 'motorik' maybe a touch played and journalistic but ws actually quite on-center and accurate.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

last time the played the knit, (not the show a couple of weeks ago), they were amazing.

and yes, the frontwoman is the talent in the band obviously. when she just grabbed the sax and started blowing, i was wowed.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

and yes, tim, they were the headliners. the room was full, sold out even?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

That's cool.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

when she grabbed the sax and started blowing i immediately pictured her in band class playing the clarinet, but then again i think i'm just a h8r.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a shame that the best song on The Power Out is the rather unexemplary "The Valleys", which is nothing like the rest of the album but is one of my fave tracks of the year.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, The Valleys is god.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kinda over postrock really

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yanc3y hits the bullsey back there. I've seen them on four or five occassions, and they've been terminally ungreat each and every time.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, bullseye. Aye, aye.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd go for 'Only One Thing Is Needed' as the track to download: it's the best one to dance to, and the moment when the sax comes in is pretty awesome.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Valleys" is the best song of the year so far. :) And yeah, I hate the drummer, too.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

So the L.A. Weekly has a review of their recent show at Spaceland with the Ex and The Mae Shi, and it says that the bassist of Electralene "collapsed" onstage, cutting their set short at 4 or 5 songs. The writer doesn't really elaborate, except to guess that it was some kind of exhaustion. Does anyone know anything else?!

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

And, on a separate, more selfish note - does anyone have an MP3 of Ted Leo doing "Dancing in the Dark" referenced above? I saw it live and was floored. I was praying it would be on that Balgeary stopgap E.P., but he put on the Jam cover instead...

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Did people on this thread really just imply that songs other than "O Sombra" were the best ones on that LP? Really?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen them on four or five occassions, and they've been terminally ungreat each and every time.

You'd think after time #2 or #3 you'd learn your lesson ...

― gloryinjesus, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

So the L.A. Weekly has a review of their recent show at Spaceland with the Ex and The Mae Shi, and it says that the bassist of Electralene "collapsed" onstage

Oh no! The bassist is a girl who was in the year above me at school. and is a very, very nice person, she is quite tiny though, so maybe that's why.

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

I've been listening to The Power Out a lot the last couple of days. I do think it's a wonderful album, but it reminds me of things, memories of things, so much. No "but" really. Stereolab, yes, but also I love the guitar tone on 'O Sombra' and 'Enter Laughing'. Is it the Velvet Underground's 3rd it resembles?

The other thing is Le Mans and that other Spanish band that aren't Le Mans.

I'm going to see them tonight, anyway, as long as it isn't sold out.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like that Spanish band Le Mans.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, they are good.

btw I like The Power Out a lot more than Stereolab, or at least most Stereolab. It sends me.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"the guitar tone on 'O Sombra' and 'Enter Laughing'. Is it the Velvet Underground's 3rd it resembles?"

Yes! Well, on "Enter Laughing," anyway. Can't quite put my finger on which VU songs this sounds like.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also - this was what was at the back of my mind - 'Firebell Ringing' by the Pastels.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my friends on "Oh Sombra": "This is what the Cranberries would have sounded like if they were, you know, really good." She is right about this in more ways than I can even sort out right now.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sadly, they were unable to play 'Oh Sombra'. Or 'The Valleys' (obv. I guess). Still they were pretty good, until they got too heavy riff on me. Maybe this was Axes stuff.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

One of the best concerts I've been to. I dont think there is anything more beautiful than a massive wall of noise with a crazy piano beat playing in the background. Seriously, this is the most captivating music you will hear and it works *so* much better live.

Mia Clarke is like Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo was 15 years ago. The coolest guitarist in the world. She's like this tiny rock fairy with a guitar that's almost bigger than her. More importantly I must say that I think she's the most beautiful human being I've ever seen. Whenever she'd move the hair that fell over her face and smile shyly(she has a great smile) to the crowd I melted. I think we made eye contact once! I am so completly in love with her and I will never EVER complain when girls go crazy for male rock stars. I get it now! I UNDERSTAND

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Great band. They really are.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Forget to add that I saw them last night.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I still freakin' love Axes. ESPECIALLY "Business or Otherwise," which I find rather charming.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I dont *get* that song, but I still like it. They played it live and Mia was doing really weird robotic twitches when she was making those weird noises on the guitar. It looked and sounded great.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

i listened to "axes" the other day: it just gets better and better. i'm massively pissed off i haven't seen (didn't go to see) them live.

there's another electrelane thread, isn't there? i'm sure i posted on it. hmm.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I raced from the Spoon show to see Electrelane when they came to Philly. Made it just in time to see their set. There were maybe 30 people in attendance; everyone else missed out. One of my favorite albums this year, too.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

I think it is very important that we work out which one of Electrelane is the most attractive.

I have just discovered their album "Axes"... christ, this is great. I was a bit surprised by how straight-down-the-line they were with their up-and-at-em rock sounds, given that I usually expect Wire cover stars to be all noodley and inaccessible. Being straight-down-the-line is a good thing, mind... it's like the rock version of being anti-rockist.

The cover of "The Partisan" is my new favourite tune.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

The drummer is still the weakest link in this band, always seems to plod.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind the drumming, it has a kind of jazzy Dinger-ishness about it, and if the speed changes are unintentional, then the rest of the band certainly locks into them pretty sweetly. I just can't stand the improvised track on Axes. Sure, it's a fair thing to attempt, but the results are awful, and it really spoils the shape of the album.

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

we raced together! i think electrelane put on the better set that night, IMHO.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

i really like this album. i ought to listen to it more often.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Anyone else hear the new album, "No Shouts, No Calls"? Any thoughts?

― el juan (el juan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

How is it? Are there vocals or is it mostly instrumental? I loved The Power Out.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

this one has more vocal songs, though I would still say it is more similar to "Axes" than it is to "The Power Out", don't ask me what I'm basing this on, just me reaction on my first couple listens. I love "The Power Out", but it's starting to sound like a pop album in comparison to their other records.

― el juan (el juan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm psyched for this.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's fucking terriffic.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I need to get back on their PR then.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I still haven't got round to listening to Axes yet. I LOVE Power Out, I do like Rock It To The Moon but it's nowhere near as good IMO. Only ever seen them live touring Rock It, which wasn't all that impressive, but I can imagine they've improved a lot since then.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Axes is big and long and dark. It's excellent, but TPO is probably better. Concise.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I love "The Power Out", but it's starting to sound like a pop album in comparison to their other records.

Definitely: ever since Axes I've been wondering what their plan was on this front, whether they'd come back to being a pop band on the next record, or whether each LP would mix in both modes (which The Power Out mostly did), or find some third way that left the question behind -- no matter what, it seems like a good sign about a band's vitality that they'd have a few different directions they could profitably go in. I'll be interested to hear this one, especially if it fits their trend of getting increasingly, umm, "historical" from album to album.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!

i had no idea a new album was coming out! where have i been? albini on board? what's the scoop? i am wicked psyched to hear this already!

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

may 8 in the us.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

There's way more singing than Axes. But it still sounds more like Axes than Power Out. Quite pleasant.

― pinder (pinder), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

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This is stunning. I love it very much.

― kraudive, Saturday, 19 October 2024 17:04 (one year ago)

Great album

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 19 October 2024 20:12 (one year ago)

five months pass...

This record is really sticking with me. Gradually it dawned on me that "I Have Been Alive" reminds me of Catherine Ribeiro + Alps' "Paix",

― Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Friday, 18 April 2025 17:39 (one year ago)

Very enjoyable live too.

― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 20 April 2025 00:38 (one year ago)

eleven months pass...

New Memorials album out now! Planning to see them in Seattle in May.

― JoeStork, Friday, 27 March 2026 18:26 (two months ago)

Not sure I've heard Verity go the spooky-folk mode of the last third of "In The Weeds" before.

― etc, Saturday, 28 March 2026 19:41 (two months ago)

New album is fantastic. I'll need to listen more but it might be the best record she's ever made.

― kraudive, Thursday, 9 April 2026 19:53 (two months ago)

!!!! that's bold words!

excited to hear this, loved the last one.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 April 2026 19:57 (two months ago)

Aceness of the new album is seconded, a real all-bases-covered banquet for total listener immersion, with a gorgeous sleeve

― technopolis, Friday, 10 April 2026 04:54 (two months ago)

I'm very happy with what I've heard so far of the new album. It seems to expand on what they've done before, while being more accessible and enjoyable.

― giraffe, Tuesday, 14 April 2026 08:13 (one month ago)

words from Mia

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/08/the-sweaty-singular-indie-music-scene-of-early-00s-brighton

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 April 2026 18:05 (one month ago)

FINALLY listening to the new Memorials. Jesus christ is it good.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 14 April 2026 18:08 (one month ago)

one month passes...

I love the new MEMORIALS. Super Cool! Sounds like they much more to give. I wish them the best!

― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 22 May 2026 14:31 (three weeks ago)

debating seeing them saturday

― dan selzer, Friday, 22 May 2026 16:36 (three weeks ago)

I saw them in London recently. It was too loud for me but otherwise good.

― Alba, Friday, 22 May 2026 17:14 (three weeks ago)

this really takes off on the second half. or at any rate, I had bounced off the first few tracks when I gave this a listen a while back, but letting it play on I'm stunned at how good it gets

― rob, Sunday, 24 May 2026 14:10 (two weeks ago)

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