ARTiST: The Brakes
TiTLE: The Beatific Visions
LABEL: Rough Trade
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 28:03 min
SiZE: 41,7 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Oct-22-2006
RELEASE DATE: Nov-06-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Hold Me In The River 01:59
02. Margarita 02:06
03. If I Should Die Tonight 02:01
04. Mobile Communication 03:48
05. Spring Chicken 02:00
06. Isabel 02:26
07. Beatific Vision 02:54
08. Porcupine Or Pineapple 01:05
09. Cease And Desist 02:27
10. On Your Side 02:21
11. No Return 04:56
Release Notes:
One of my favorite albums of '05 came from the UK
group Brakes. Their totally overlooked debut LP,
Give Blood, was a crazed combination of everything
from ten-second punk tracks to wandering country
ballads. Brakes' spastic stylistic changes could
have been a recipe for disaster, but fortunately
gave us a very intriguing listen. Led by former
British Sea Power keyboardist Eamon Hamilton and
backed by Tom & Alex White from Electric Soft Parade
and Marc Beatty from Tenderfoot, this is a mighty
great indie supergroup.
Brakes are back with a brand new album, The Beatific
Visions, which will hit stores in the UK on November
6. The record was recorded with Stuart Sikes, who
had produced Cat Power and engineered White Stripes'
White Blood Cells. According to their official
website, they hooked up in Nashville, recording in
the House Of David studio while crashing out in a
frat house.
Beatty described the album as "a great battle
between evil good and evil where the world almost
cracks in half, sucking everyone into a life of
eternal darkness and misery." Wow, that sounds
cheery! He continued: "There's so much fucked-up
shit going on in this world that it's hard not to
pass comment on it in our music. But as much as it's
important to us to write about that kind of stuff,
there's a lot of love and romance in there too."