Album Review: The Rakes

The Rakes

Facts about this album: * The Rakes are Alan Donohoe, Jamie Hornsmith, Lasse Petersen and Matthew Swinnerton. * Alan Donohoe explained The Rakes' decision album to record third album 'Klang' in Berlin saying "The London music scene is so...

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Live Review: The Rakes

Live Review: The Rakes

Is an ‘intimate’ gig so-called because everyone here is squeezed in so tight that they’re inadvertently touching at least four strangers’ bits at any given time? On tonight’s evidence, we think so. Packed like unethical sardines in a...

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The Rakes

The Rakes

‘Capture/Release’ had a way of charming you, didn’t it? The way it rolled into the pub in crisp Fred Perry, all chatter about 22-grand jobs, so quick to get the next round in. But it was the album’s hidden vulnerabilities, arriving like...

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The Rakes

The Rakes

Holding off speculation that their second album is a bit of a ‘Sam’s Town’, The Rakes’ new single drags us on to the sticky dancefloor for one last can-can in east London’s finest boozersssssh (hic). But it’s getting late, so we leave,...

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The Rakes: King’s College, London; Tues Feb 6

The Rakes: King’s College, London; Tues Feb 6

It’s the hungriest rodent that’s the most industrious. Lab experiments on squirrels have proved that, if you starve one for two days it will perform a series of intricate puzzle-solving tests and acrobatic manoeuvres to reach a solitary nut....

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The Rakes: Exeter University, Lemon Grove,Friday January 27

The Rakes: Exeter University, Lemon...

Since last year, London agit-punks The Rakes have gone from being slaves to a life of Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep), to the glamorous world of indie rock’n’roll and a life of Tourbus, Tourbus, Tourbus (Pub, Club, Knob-rot). The only real...

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The Rakes: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, Sunday September 25

The Rakes: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, Sunday...

"Thisisforalltheintellectualstudentsnotthatyouhaveto beintellectualtobeastudentoranyfinglookatJamie hewasastudentbutheneverreadabookinhislifeand…" Everybody’s do-oing a brand new dance now. C’mon Portsmouth, do the Rakesy-Alan! It’s just...

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The Rakes : Glasgow/Nottingham/Manchester, March 19-21

The Rakes : Glasgow/Nottingham/Manchester,...

“Can we please turn down the bass?” pleads Alan Donohoe , elastic-limbed frontman with The Rakes . “It’s contorting my bowel movements and making me shit myself.” Perhaps we should explain. NME has been sent on a three-day odyssey...

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