Capture / Release - Rakes

Capture/Release is an immediatly fast paced, lively journey through modern day life, almost in the same essence as The Arctic Monkeys and HardFi brought working class life back to the focus of music. But that is where any comparisons end. For a start the Rakes for some unknown reason have failed to gain the same attention as there fellow artists, despite the mass of criticle acclaim that has came there way, for anyone who listens to this album just once, it becomes baffling why this anonymity is, as the Rakes sure as anything present us with this debut an immense amount of talent not only for creating a catchy, lively tune that will never go amiis at any decent indie ...  Read the complete review

If there is one thing that amazon is good at, it's recommending decent bands that I perhaps might not have heard of but end up loving. I took a gamble on this just before Reading festival last year and it certainly paid off. I'm always a little wary about buying based on the amazon recommends but so far I've not come across one yet that I haven't liked. The London 4 piece seem to have really sneaked onto the scene and then over a short space of time really developed a cult following, probably due to their appearance at Reading in 2005 and these amazon recommendations. They formed back in the early part of 2000 and decided to call themselves The Rakes because ...  Read the complete review