http://sickmouthy.com/2013/01/15/electrelane-the-power-out-2004-no-shouts-no-calls-2007/
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
I miss Electrelane too.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/verity-susman
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow, i so need to listen to some electrelane about now.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
I totally just listened to that album.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
I love the first album, for me Electrelane are one of them select bands that are beyond criticism.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
I wish they'd toured the states.
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
― 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.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
That sounds like you want to critique them?
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
I wish they'd released a whole album in the same genre-study psych style as The Valleys
That would be an incredible album.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
xp no, I adore them!
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Good!
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
one of the fewest bands i love even though they sounds EXACTLY like other bands before them (stereolab and faith healers)
― nostormo, Saturday, 16 March 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I'm putting Axes on right this very second!!
― Nilmar Garciaparra (Leee), Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
"to the east" is all-time
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I'm putting Power Out on right this very second!
― nostormo, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Cunga, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
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
― nostormo, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
this is for all you Valleys fans:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtbjvQbLd6s
― nostormo, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
so special
― kraudive, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
I've been rediscovering electrelane lately too. Axes is incredible
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yep.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite 00s rock band!
― time turns all men into pies (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 17 March 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:27 (ten years ago) link
Axes was aces, I should investigate the rest of it
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:50 (ten years ago) link
To save you scrolling up - http://sickmouthy.com/2013/01/15/electrelane-the-power-out-2004-no-shouts-no-calls-2007/
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 13 May 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
one of my favorite bands of the 00s. rock it to the moon always slips through the cracks, but i love that too.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 13 May 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
so many bad bands reform but not electrelane hmph
― ||||||||, Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
Oh you. I had a hope there.
― kraudive, Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
I guess they kind of did? but yeah the world could use four more Electrelane albums ty
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
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!
― kitchen person, Sunday, 19 April 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
fuck yes, amazing!
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 April 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
several members of an unopopular music messageboard would certainly be interested
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
Whoa
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
I only got in to them after they broke up. Would love to see them.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
same here
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
"They all seemed to agree that Axes is their best album"
well duh
― when I come out, can you introduce me as Jagger (imago), Sunday, 19 April 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
and yeah me too
that such a given? I think I like the last one the most.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Monday, 20 April 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
I only discovered them recently when someone put No Shouts No Calls as their favorite of the 2000s in the ILM decade poll.
― o. nate, Monday, 20 April 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
― dan selzer
Yeah, that's my favourite too followed by The Power Out.
― kitchen person, Monday, 20 April 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
when I found this...I couldn't believe it existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtbjvQbLd6s
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 April 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
an amazing song that brings me to tears every time
― Nudeln und Klopapier Gore (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 20 April 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link