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- Brakes [aka brakesbrakesbrakes]
- Band Name: Brakes [aka brakesbrakesbrakes]
- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Release Date: Sep 13, 2005
- Summary: Brakes is an often-jokey, garage-rock side project for British Sea Power keyboardist Eamon Hamilton, who here steps to the forefront, playing guitar and handling lead vocals. Joining him are members of Electric Soft Parade and Tenderfoot on 16 tracks that range from six seconds to 3:39 in length.
- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 23
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Mixed: 2 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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Some observers classify these ditties "country-punk," while other crankily insist they're "anti-folk," proving mainly that nobody knows what to make of simple little guitar-band songs on a scene where everyone's busy refining his or her artistic vision.
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60Much of the record lands solidly in novelty territory.
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If you took away the melodica, the masks and the mystery of a band like Clinic, you'd be left with a Brakes; competent, middle-of-the-road, going nowhere fast.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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MaxJ10Outstanding
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VanderV9It´s very funny and much better than the last British Sea Power album. It was recorded in 5 days!!!
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JC4
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