A brilliant debut, unduely ignored! (Capture / Release - Rakes)

Member Name: lozzy_princess

Product:	Capture / Release - Rakes
Date:	07/10/07 (28 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A fantastic album filled with possible but unknown hits

Disadvantages: Not enough fans!!!!!

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 club, but also some brilliantly almost poetic lyrics that become a comment on modern day life post-university.

The most stand out songs i feel are the almost hit-of-the-summer 22 grand job, with its blasting jealousy of those rising to the top of the social ladder where you remain stuck in small city jobs staring on, and the soundtrack to my life, Work Work Work.... , the morning after the night before song for a generation!

In essence i still fail to comprehend why the album remains decidedly almost unknown, and anyone who fails to be wooed by this high energy burst onto the music scene clearly needs a bit more caffeine and energy themselves!

Summary: A must for indie lovers everywhere, move over Arctics!