the arkive

  • Electrelane - The Power Out
    • 1. Gone Under Sea
    2. On Parade
    3. The Valleys
    4. Birds
    5. Take The Bit Between Your Teeth
    6. Oh Sombra!
    7. Enter Laughing
    8. This Deed
    9. Love Builds Up
    10. Only One Thing Is Needed
    11. You Make Me Weak In The Knees

Electrelane

The Power Out

Too Pure
Released 26 January 2004
PURE 142 LP

The Power Out is the second album by the English rock group Electrelane. It was released on compact disc and vinyl in 2004 by Too Pure. It was recorded in Chicago, Illinois in early 2003 by Steve Albini. The album's lead single, "On Parade" was a hit on college radio.

Recorded and mixed in three weeks, The Power Out is, in Electrelane's terms, both conventional (it uses mainly traditional rock ‘n’ roll instruments) and complex. The band talk about it as inspired partly by the idea of folk songs and their intention to imbue it with a greater sense of space and light than the previous album. It's something that shines in songs like The Valleys where Verity arranged a setting of a Siegfried Sassoon poem for a Chicago choir, or Take The Bit Between Your Teeth, where punk swagger meets tight melody.