- Artist
- Electrelane
- Label
- Too Pure
- Release date
- 30th April 2007
- Genre
- Indie
Brighton female four-piece up the ante on most accessible album yet
While the angular guitars and pulsing rhythms of art-rock are all over indie music right now, Brighton's Electrelane seek inspiration elsewhere for their cerebral sound: namely the hypnotic repetition of Krautrock and the Velvet Underground. Melding this to Sixties organ sounds and pleasingly indifferent female vocals means the band's air of detached cool can resemble Stereolab copyists on initial listening.
However, on this their fourth album, Electrelane forge their own path away from previous aloof soundscapes. No Shouts No Calls is in fact the perfect title. These are songs of loss and hope that slowly reveal their charms without the need for bombast. Verity Susman's lyrics touchingly document loves desired, treasured and lost while their intimate, almost spoken delivery provides a warm counterpoint to the band's glacial guitars and driving Peter Hook-like basslines - best seen on the crescendoing To The East and symphonic melancholy of In Berlin. A real grower.
