No Shouts, No Calls is the sound of a band with a whole lot of range. What the two bands have in common is that they make vital rock music, and in a genre all too scantily populated by females, anyone willing to take the reigns and make music as good as Electrelane is capable of should be embraced by the masses as quickly as possible. But with No Shouts, No Calls, they may have just declared themselves heir to the S-K throne.Īll that being said, Electrelane doesn’t sound that much like Sleater-Kinney, nor does it seem like they set out to. As an all-girl outfit themselves, Electrelane are sort of an obligatory addition to the short list of bands to step into that roll. I mean, who can go without some girls rocking out for this long? It seems like Sleater-Kinney quit years ago. The name “No Shouts, No Calls” is a reference to a line from the 2003 film “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."Īll songs written by Electrelane and Verity Susman, except where noted.There is definitely a bad-ass-chicks-shaped hole where Sleater-Kinney used to be, and its high time it was filled. Leonie Cooper of The Guardian, who mentioned the band had a "penchant for turning every tune a proggy wig-out." James Reed of the Boston Globe picked the album as one of the best of 2007. The album received generally positive reviews, with Heather Phares of Allmusic calling some songs "among the band's finest work" detractors included The first single, titled "To the East," was released on 12 March 2007. The album was released in on 23 April 2007 in Japan, in the USA and 30 April 2007 elsewhere. In November, the band announced on their official website that they had finished recording and had titled their album No Shouts, No Calls. In September and October, they were at Key Recording in Benton Harbor recording and mixing their album. During that period, the band became fans of the sport, going so far as to rearrange their recording schedules around the event and including a sample of a match between Hertha BSC Berlin and FC Moskva in the song "Five" of their new album. The group began writing material in Berlin's Planet Roc studios in the summer of 2006, at the height of the World Cup. No Shouts, No Calls is also their first album to be entirely digitally recorded and mixed. It was released on CD and LP in 2007 by Too Pure. No Shouts, No Calls is the fourth album by English rock group Electrelane.
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