Electrelane is unapologetically feminist, crafting tracks about male hegemony ("Take the Bit Between Your Teeth") and relationships between women ("Love Builds Up"). Far from dogmatists, their musical approach veers from brazenly electric to, on the lovely "Enter Laughing," tender and sympathetic. The Power Out's mixture of bright optimism and political stridency almost seems like a relic of the early Nineties riot grrrl movement; some of its eleven tracks aren't more than cleverly rendered sketches based on jam sessions among the group's four members. Nevertheless they manage to exude a quiet charm that is infectious.