Electrelane

Goddamnit.

:(

Are you joking me? They were so cute!

:(

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.

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.

Its just a bonus that they're so cute! I'd love them either way.

Well yes. I only know they're supercute because I like them.

I meant to say love. "You say you don't knowwwww what love meens any morrrre"

The walls the walls the WALLS the walls

vs.

C-CAW!

The walls, even though they didn't do the greater times when I saw them play.

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.

bummer. saw 'em in may, they were grebt.

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?

IWTBTP is one of their best songs, when it hits overdrive towards the end.. WOOOOOOOOOOO

^ no foolin', nostalgically probably my favourite. it was always the one song i'd come away from shows wishing they'd played.

Well, this fucking sucks.

Yes it does. I'm sad I only saw them once, ages ago, when I wasn't too impressed; I liked them well enough then, but for me No Shouts No Calls was so much better than previous albums and I've heard so much about how great they are live now that I wish I'd seen them since. (Plus I would've liked to see them since Ros joined, since she was from my hometown and all.)

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.