ELECTRELANE





BIOGRAPHY



Verity Susman - piano/vocals/saxophone/guitar
Emma Gaze - drums
Mia Clarke - guitar
Ros Murray - bass


Electrelane have never been a band to succumb to stereotypes, preferring instead to twist, break and turn upside down all expectations with every move. It�s what makes them such an interesting, diverse and continually prolific force.

�Axes� was recorded mostly live over Christmas 2004 with Steve Albini (and with newly appointed bassist Ros Murray). The album was played from start to finish with the band altogether in one room, like a gig played with total freedom and drive and a big dollop of healthy disregard for the over- polished.

� Axes� draws on elements of Electrelane�s previous albums �Rock It To The Moon� (released through the bands own Let�s Rock! imprint) and �The Power Out� but develops them further. The result is their most assured work to date.

� Axes� is luscious, beautiful and melodic. In parts leaning towards a pop aesthetic complemented by Verity�s inscrutable and dulcet vocals. At other times a thunderous powerful force of hard- edged metal derived guitar riffs, clattering piano and primal pounding drums and bass. It�s an engulfing frenzy of garage and new wave-esq. rock which intensifies on their cover of Leonard Cohen�s �The Partisan�. With an unsurprising punk ethic of a band so admirably indomitable, Electrelane began playing the track on 2004�s pre-Election US tour as a mockery of Bush�s ownership of the word �freedom�.

� Axes� sails through and chops up many genres, atmospheres and textures. It finds itself in a kind of otherworldliness well above the confines of the pigeon- holed. It�s loud and quiet, aggressive and calming, menacing and sweet, slow paced yet frenzied. Above all it�s startlingly beautiful and unique record.


DISCOGRAPHY


Axes




The power out




On Parade EP

NO SERÍA LO MISMO

Nació llamándose Jeffrey Hymon aunque todos lo recuerdan como Joey Ramone, el primero baterista y posteriormente vocalista y excepcional Frontman que en compañía de su grupo The Ramones fundara el Punk Rock como tal, movimiento que ha adquirido nuevos bríos y simplemente esta sumergido en cada una de las notas de los grupos más aclamados de hoy; Green Day, Blink 182, The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Hives, etc,etc; que encontraron en este sonido lo que los Ramones le dieron al mundo, una forma fácil, rápida, directa y divertida de decirle a éste que algo no está bien, que no estamos de acuerdo con tener que trabajar y que sólo importa la diversión.
Incluso en la Complejidad de The Mars Volta o en la Popería de U2 se encuentra atrapada esa frescura y rebeldía que Joey y The Ramones le regalaron a la música y que nos pone a gritar y bailar cada vez que truena en el auto o en una fiesta Blitzkrieg Bop, Sheena is a Punkrocker o I Don´t Want to Grow Up desafortunadamente Joey falleció de cáncer linfático a la edad de 49 años dejando atrás un sentimiento de perpetua juventud y rebelión sin el cuál el R&R NO SERÍA LO MISMO.