Personnel: Verity Susman (vocals, guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Mia Clarke (guitar, background vocals); Ros Murray (ukulele, cello, organ, background vocals); Emma Gaze (drums).

Audio Mixers: Jessica Ruffins; Bill Skibbe.

Recording information: Key Club, Benton Harbor, MI (09/2006).

NO SHOUTS NO CALLS is the most assured and mature album of the Brighton, England, band's career. While it doesn't contain the rawness and improvisatory glee of 2005's AXES, it shows the songwriting and instrumental skills of the all-female quartet to have improved by leaps and bounds, with more immediate pop structures (not to mention more manageable song lengths) and tight playing supplanting the sloppy charms of previous outings. Electrelane still like to work it on out, though, and many of the songs drift off into fuzzed-out, Velvets-like outros, but in general, NO SHOUTS NO CALLS is the most compact and straightforward release of the band's career.