Terrific news/non-news at the end of last week that Electrelane – who went on hiatus in 2007 after a few albums of critically-acclaimed but generally underappreciated post-punk in the early part of the aughts – were in the early stages of writing new material for the first time in a decade and a half:

I call it “non-news” because there’s a long distance between jamming in a living room and actually releasing new music or playing more shows, but it’s a welcome start. Maybe at the very least, Electrelane as an ongoing concern can get some of their records back in print? While we wait, here’s one of the videos release from their final – to date – album, 2007’s No Shouts No Calls.