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The Rakes: Klang
The Rakes are a band that can on your nerves, but in a good way. Their third album Klang never lets go - a rollercoaster ride set to music - sounding like Television having relocated to London and developing a sense of humor, writing about The Loneliness Of The Outdoor Smoker. Most songs, Mullers Rachet in particular, have the signature hard-hitting British post-punk beat. Stand-out tracks The...
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The Rakes New Album Gets a US Release
Myspace // "1989" [Audio] They emerged at the top of their scene five years ago, and while many of the new wave-redux bands have fallen by the wayside, it seems as though The Rakes have held on with consistently solid material. Their third album, Klang, has been available since March in the UK, but it will get a digital release on 20 October in the US. This will be coupled with a...
Sky Larkin prepare for festival season by playing in mud
Sky Larkin - Antibodies from Sky Larkin on Vimeo. It took me a little while to come around to Sky Larkin’s debut album The Golden Spike. Perhaps it was being a little too familiar with a bunch of the songs, or that the production was rather more polished than on anything they had done previously. Time has worked in it’s favour though, and it now feels like a record that will...
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The Rakes | Bowery Ballroom | 4.06.2009
Rakes, clearly New York has missed you. Not seen here since May 2007, the London four-piece haven’t had a record out in the States since their first (and the band just released their third, Klang!, in the UK), but you wouldn’t know it judging by the crowd at Bowery Ballroom who are singing along to every word, whooping and hollering and generally going mental. Singer Alan Donohoe,...
Jersey Live
Venue: Royal Jersey Showground Teaser: Richard Davis pops over to the island formerly known as ‘The Intro Sequence To Bergerac’ (ask your parents) to bring us this live review of a recent festival… Pull quote 2: watching a bald guy who looks about 50 (though he’s probably about 30) fronting a band who sound like the most asinine excesses of the late eighties...
Lethal Bizzle, The Rakes, Lightspeed Champion, The Runners and more
Band name: various new singles! Label: various labels Teaser: Rory reviews this week’s singles and gives a few home truths about Test Icicles into the bargain… Pull quote 2: Anyone with a pulse and two functioning ears would’ve arrived at the conclusion that Test Icicles were bollocks… First para: SINGLE OF THE WEEK: LETHAL BIZZLE / (A) BIZZLE...
An evening with The Rakes
Venue: SeOne Club, London Teaser: The Rakes are putting on a festie, and true to festie tradition it’s craply organised, full of drunken morons, and a touch on the ludicrously expensive side. But hey! None of this phases our reporter Katie Weatherall, who hunts down all the decent bands and reports their asses. Let’s GO! Pull quote 2: the only bands that weren’t...
Electric Gardens Festival
Venue: Faversham, Kent Teaser: A bill chock full of artrocker favourites at the recent Electric Gardens Festival. Don Blandford brings us this review - which includes Blood Red Shoes, Pull Tiger Tail, Lethal Bizzle, The Maccabees and the Young Knives…. Pull quote 2: Mud just doesn’t mix well with the serious business of quaffing cheap lager, lying back and getting...
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