― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― myopic_void (myopic_void), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
we raced together! i think electrelane put on the better set that night, IMHO.
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― el juan (el juan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― el juan (el juan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
"We have decided that the upcoming gigs will be our last for the foreseeable future," the band wrote. "After ten years of much fun and hard work, we have realised that we all need a break and time to do other things. This was a tough decision for us to make, but ultimately a positive one. "A big thank you to everyone who has come to our shows, put on our shows, and bought our records over the years. It means a lot to us. We're really grateful to have had the opportunity to play gigs all over the world and to meet so many lovely people. This last year has been especially enjoyable and we feel happy about moving on with all these good memories to look back on. At the moment we haven't made any band plans for the future but we're going to have a break and see what happens. "Love, Electrelane"
"A big thank you to everyone who has come to our shows, put on our shows, and bought our records over the years. It means a lot to us. We're really grateful to have had the opportunity to play gigs all over the world and to meet so many lovely people. This last year has been especially enjoyable and we feel happy about moving on with all these good memories to look back on. At the moment we haven't made any band plans for the future but we're going to have a break and see what happens.
"Love, Electrelane"
this makes me v sad in my heart
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn shame. Was thinking about them just the other day.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Noooooooooo
It seems like Verity has other projects to work on, though -- we'll see if this leads to an upswing in Mia writing, too.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i would like to do "other things" with all of them, including lesbo drummer
― cutty, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
You say you don't know, what love means anymore.
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
cutty is class
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm climbing up the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalls without you
― cutty, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's all get together and make sure No Shouts, No Calls makes a strong showing in end of year polls.
GODDAMN IT :( :( :(
love these gals, new album is fantastic & nothing but great albums in their wake.
― stephen, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Goddamnit.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you joking me? They were so cute!
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh, horrible news. I just discovered this band after catching them open for Arcade Fire (and, quite frankly, blowing them off the stage) and fell immediately in love with them. Especially, especially Mia.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
why are yall so obsessed with how they look? i mean yeah, sure they are cute, but it's about the music. i wouldn't care if they looked like Patti Smith x4 if the music was as good as it is.
and it is.
― stephen, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Its just a bonus that they're so cute! I'd love them either way.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Well yes. I only know they're supercute because I like them.
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I meant to say love. "You say you don't knowwwww what love meens any morrrre"
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
The walls the walls the WALLS the walls
vs.
C-CAW!
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
The walls, even though they didn't do the greater times when I saw them play.
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
One of the great disappointments of my life is that before I ever heard Electrelane, I was standing by myself in a small record store in Chicago, and the four of them walked in. (This would have been when they were recording The Power Out with Albini, I think.) Record store + four English women in great clothes + some kind of vibe = "this is clearly some sort of band," but I had no idea which. It is lucky for them and unfortunate for me that I missed my opportunity to get excited and go all "do the c-caw sound for me!" on them.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
bummer. saw 'em in may, they were grebt.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe I Want To Be The President was a more sincere signal of intent than it seemed and Verity needs time to get her '08 campaign going. could the timing really be this much of a coincidence?
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
IWTBTP is one of their best songs, when it hits overdrive towards the end.. WOOOOOOOOOOO
― cutty, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
^ no foolin', nostalgically probably my favourite. it was always the one song i'd come away from shows wishing they'd played.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link