Electrelane

Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls

With their last album, Axes, the female UK quartet Electrelane stepped away from the charming pop of its astonishing second album, Power Out, by revealing and reveling the dissonance that was always just a finger scratch beneath the surface. Their love of angular British post-rock where extended into feisty Krautrock jams, and smothered with skronky saxophone and piano-down-a-staircase pounding: a recipe any Sonic Youth fan could admire. Now, returning with their fourth album, No Shouts No Calls, they’ve once again shown restraint, yet still pursue all their compositional chamber rock influences. The surging pulse of lock-grooved drumming still prevails as much as their layered harmonizing, power guitar outbursts, and the noodling on vintage Farfisa keyboards, all of which shines within the gorgeous clamor of “Between The Wolf And The Dog”. If you still prize your old Can and Neu albums, you’ll be doing yourself a big favor in discovering these English ladies.