There's no doubt Electrelane could beat up everybody in Godspeed You Black Emperor!. But the album runs for over an hour, and much of the wind is sucked out by the time they hit "Mother," the most knuckle-splitting piece on the album. Even if there's a narrative, the song titles don't help us find it: one song, for example, is simply called "Film Music." The two songs with lyrics are concise, and Rachel Dalley's whale song-like bass both relaxes as well as compels. The tunes shift exclusively between "fast" and "slow," and they have so many transitions that playing the whole record is like watching eleven car chases in a row. There's only one problem: all of the songs sound like that. They tear it up for a couple of minutes, switch to a slow part, and then rip it up again. The tension builds as Clarke kicks off a "Peter Gunn" guitar line and Verity Susman pulls up with her stabbing, needle-toned Farfisa. ![]() Take the second track, "Long Dark," which opens slowly with a throbbing bass and the sound of Mia Clarke scraping her guitar strings. ![]() The album sounds cinematic, and yet it's definitely more than just background music. The British four-piece Electrelane play almost nothing but instrumentals on their debut, Rock It to the Moon.
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