Album reviews: Brakes - 'Rock Is Dodelijk'
You can understand Brakes ’ decision to release a live album, since their brief history has been a tale of patchy albums and ace shows. Recorded at Brighton’s Concorde 2 and Cologne’s Luxor, this has 20 tracks of their unique brand of...
Album review: Brakes
Eamon Hamilton reckons that if Brakes hadn’t written the 12-second track ‘Cheney’ (“Ch-Ch-Cheney/Stop being such a dick”), we’d be throwing our mouldering grandmothers out of improvised nuclear shelters following a Sarah Palin-induced...
Brakes
For a fey bunch of thinking-men like Brakes, songs addressing the existence of God, the complexities of being, the levels of CO2 emitted by long-haul flights and the energy you waste editing your Facebook profile are as everyday as an Amy...
Brakes
Born of failing indie band The Electric Soft Parade and the one who can’t sing from British Sea Power on, er, vocals, as a concept Brighton supergroup Brakes really shouldn’t work. But somehow it does, and they’ve been making superior party...
