Electrelane

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!

more head nods for the band and "To the East." Although they epitomize Music From the Mid-00s to me. For whatever reason they were easily fossilized.

i think that now, that Stereolab, faith healers etc are more or less part of music history, it's easier for me to love electrelane

this is for all you Valleys fans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtbjvQbLd6s

so special

I've been rediscovering electrelane lately too. Axes is incredible

Yep.

My favourite 00s rock band!

So good. They reunited a few years back but never made it North America which made me very sad. I saw them twice back in the day, but I didn't realize how much would be lost.

I'm gonna put on Axes too!

I have been falling in love with this band over the last few months. I listened to No Shouts around three years ago and didn't think much of it. Earlier this year I heard The Valleys and was blown away so I gave The Power Out a shot, I clicked with that album straight away. I decided to give No Shouts No Calls another go and of course I loved it the whole way through. I have Axes ready to go but I know it's supposed to a bit more hard work, excited to hear it though. I feel like I'm discovering a new favourite band!

Axes was aces, I should investigate the rest of it

To save you scrolling up - http://sickmouthy.com/2013/01/15/electrelane-the-power-out-2004-no-shouts-no-calls-2007/

one of my favorite bands of the 00s. rock it to the moon always slips through the cracks, but i love that too.

so many bad bands reform but not electrelane hmph

Oh you. I had a hope there.

I guess they kind of did? but yeah the world could use four more Electrelane albums ty

The band are doing a Zoom chat on Facebook have just announced they're hopefully going to make a new album in the near future!

fuck yes, amazing!

Ah, they're all so cool. They were talking about how it was amazing playing with Broadcast in 2004 and how much they miss Trish.

They all seemed to agree that Axes is their best album and Bells is the song their happiest with from their back catalogue. Apparently their label won't reissue Axes on vinyl because nobody would be interested.

several members of an unopopular music messageboard would certainly be interested

Whoa

I only got in to them after they broke up. Would love to see them.

same here

"They all seemed to agree that Axes is their best album"

well duh

and yeah me too

that such a given? I think I like the last one the most.

great covers live as well...Smalltown Boy, I'm On Fire, The Partisan.

Had this amazing long cross country run streaming The Power Out, and only at the end did I realize it was being shuffled. I wish I could get that sequencing back. Still, it made it my fav.

I only discovered them recently when someone put No Shouts No Calls as their favorite of the 2000s in the ILM decade poll.

that such a given? I think I like the last one the most.

― dan selzer

Yeah, that's my favourite too followed by The Power Out.

when I found this...I couldn't believe it existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtbjvQbLd6s

an amazing song that brings me to tears every time

'No Shouts, No Calls' is also my fave. Thanks for the reminder!