The Rakes
Klang

The Rakes debut, Capture/Release, was one of my favorite albums of 2005. I loved their energy, and the way they combined the sneering of punk with the...

After an uncertain second album The Rakes return with a laddish swagger for their third long player Klang. Their sophomore album Ten New Messages was ...

The Rakes were one of the rash of second-wave post-punk influenced British guitar bands that appeared in the earlier years of the noughties.  As we a...

Recorded in Berlin after the band expressed their dislike of Britain’s dull capital city, ‘Klang!’ delivers ten short and sharp punches that suggest L...

Clearly, The Rakes didn't. Dissatisfied with what they perceived as a moribund music scene, the quartet upped sticks and, following in the footsteps o...

It's difficult to think of a band whose lead singer's dancing and appearance encapsulates soprecisely what the group he fronts sounds like. Thin. Angu...

The Rakes are a four-piece outfit from the London, who first came to prominence in 2005 with the singles 22 Grand Job and Strasbourg and the smashing ...

Anyone yearning for the pre-dancefloor, pre-electronic Franz Ferdinand is likely to be sated by the Rakes' third album. The two bands have been tourin...

In the ?new Britpop? rush of 2004, The Rakes came over like a cross between Blur and Pulp ? offering tuneful social observation, but on a shoestring. ...

In a nutshell...Short, sharp, very noisy shocksWhat's it all aboutZipping their Harrington jackets up tight, the Rakes clamber out of their jet on to...