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- Date Released: April 30, 2007
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Too Pure
Brit quartet indulges their pop side.
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We Say...
Fan of linear progression? Just erase Electrelane’s previous album, Axes, from your mind and regard No Shouts, No Calls as the confident follow-up to the group’s tentative 2004 pop foray, The Power Out. Axes made a virtue out of jarring transitions and jagged edges, at times making the group sound like an all-female King Crimson. No Shouts, No Calls, on the other hand, opts for sonic cohesion, begging inevitable comparisons to Stereolab.
While Electrelane has the same jones for Krautrock and Farfisa organs as the legendary post-rockers, they regurgitate them differently. Whereas Stereolab is content to groove, the Brighton quartet rocks. Credit Mia Clarke’s versatile guitar — she’s glistening one moment (“Tram 21”), crunchy the next (“At Sea”). Given free rein by a tight rhythm section, Clarke, along with lead singer Verity Susman, gives each of these songs their color.
Susman’s busier than ever on No Shouts, No Calls, singing on nearly every track (Axes was largely instrumental) and providing keyboard work as well. Her lyrics tend towards love (“The Greater Times”: “I’m tearing down the walls without you”), even if it’s mostly the kind of love you’d never think to actually write a song about. (On “To the East” she wants you to move to eastern Germany with her, on “In Berlin” she sings about freezing to death). Perverse? Sure. But Electrelane have always had a rebellious streak to them — let’s just enjoy their turn towards pop as long as we can.
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The Greater Times |
3:43 |
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| 02. | |
To The East |
4:55 |
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| 03. | |
After The Call |
3:05 |
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| 04. | |
Tram 21 |
4:30 |
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| 05. | |
In Berlin |
4:15 |
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| 06. | |
At Sea |
4:48 |
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| 07. | |
Between The Wolf And The Dog |
4:06 |
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| 08. | |
Saturday |
3:56 |
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| 09. | |
Five |
6:26 |
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| 10. | |
Cut And Run |
3:28 |
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| 11. | |
The Lighthouse |
4:23 |
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| 12. | |
Carolina Wren |
3:09 |
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12 Total Tracks, 50:44 Total Length
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