Brakes

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Margarita 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party 00:00 Tools
Ring a Ding Ding 00:00 Tools
Heard About Your Band 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Me to Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
Oh! Forever 00:00 Tools
Two Shocks 00:00 Tools
Worry About It Later 00:00 Tools
NY Pie 00:00 Tools
Hold Me In The River 00:00 Tools
Crush On You 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stand to Stand Beside You 00:00 Tools
What's in It for Me? 00:00 Tools
The Most Fun 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey 00:00 Tools
Hi How Are You 00:00 Tools
Beatific Visions 00:00 Tools
Jackson 00:00 Tools
You'll Always Have a Place to Stay 00:00 Tools
You're So Pretty 00:00 Tools
Sometimes Always 00:00 Tools
Cease and Desist 00:00 Tools
Fell in Love With a Girl 00:00 Tools
Eternal Return 00:00 Tools
Ancient Mysteries 00:00 Tools
Red Rag 00:00 Tools
Why Tell the Truth (When It's Easier to Lie) 00:00 Tools
Do You Feel the Same? 00:00 Tools
If I Should Die Tonight 00:00 Tools
Porcupine or Pineapple 00:00 Tools
Spring Chicken 00:00 Tools
Leaving England 00:00 Tools
Mobile Communication 00:00 Tools
Isabel 00:00 Tools
All Nite Disco Party 00:00 Tools
On Your Side 00:00 Tools
No Return 00:00 Tools
Pick Up the Phone 00:00 Tools
Lil' Booba Freya 00:00 Tools
Shut Us Down 00:00 Tools
Porcupine or Pineapple? 00:00 Tools
Why Tell The Truth - When It's Easier To Lie 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (Graham Sutton Remix) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party - Graham Sutton Remix 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Me To Space - Man 00:00 Tools
Comma Comma Comma Full Stop 00:00 Tools
NY Basement Pie 00:00 Tools
Brakesbrakesbrakes - Don't Take Me To Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
Into the Ground 00:00 Tools
Huevos Rancheros 00:00 Tools
Cease and Desist (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Cease And Desist (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Track 1 00:00 Tools
Life's Work 00:00 Tools
7th Seal 00:00 Tools
Track 2 00:00 Tools
Set a Course 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (FC Kahuna Remix) 00:00 Tools
Track 3 00:00 Tools
Track 8 00:00 Tools
Track 4 00:00 Tools
Track 7 00:00 Tools
Track 6 00:00 Tools
Track 9 00:00 Tools
Track 5 00:00 Tools
Crystal Tunings 00:00 Tools
Witchin Hour 00:00 Tools
I Can’t Stand To Stand Beside You 00:00 Tools
Special 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey (1) 00:00 Tools
(Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Living In The Real World 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (Matthew Herbert Remix) 00:00 Tools
What’s in It for Me? 00:00 Tools
Cheney 00:00 Tools
Supermarket 00:00 Tools
N.Y. Basement Pie 00:00 Tools
In the Water 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco 00:00 Tools
Boat Trip 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey (2) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party - FC Kahuna Remix 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey [1] 00:00 Tools
Don’t Take Me to Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (Live at Luxor, Cologne, May 2009) 00:00 Tools
Why Tell The Truth (When It’s Easier To Lie)? 00:00 Tools
blame it on the brakes 00:00 Tools
Tale of Two Cities 00:00 Tools
Big Money 00:00 Tools
Hi How Are You? (Live at Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (Herbert remix) 00:00 Tools
NY Basement Pie - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Cease And Desist - Live from Club Frog, London Jan 07 00:00 Tools
Hold Me In River 00:00 Tools
Cigarette In The Rain 00:00 Tools
Song of Imponderables 00:00 Tools
Why Tell the Truth? (When It's Easier to Lie) 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey - 2 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
NY Pie (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Spring Chicken (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
brakes - hi how are you 00:00 Tools
NY Pie (demo) 00:00 Tools
What's in it For Me? (2) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (Kahuna Mix) 00:00 Tools
What’s In It For Me? [2] 00:00 Tools
Who Am I To Be 00:00 Tools
Cease And Desist (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Pick Up The Phone (Live at Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Ring A Ding Ding (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey - 1 00:00 Tools
Heard About Your Band (Live at Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Hi, How Are You? 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey (Live at Luxor, Cologne, May 2009) 00:00 Tools
Empty House 00:00 Tools
Porcupine Or Pineapple (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Comma Comma Comma Full Stop (Live at Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me? (Live At Luxor, Cologne, May 2009) 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey [2] 00:00 Tools
Huevos Rancheros (Live at Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Brakes - My Pie 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me? (Live At Concorde 2, Brighton, August 2008) 00:00 Tools
Why Tell The Truth (When It's Easier To Lie)? (Live At Luxor, Cologne, May 2009) 00:00 Tools
841 Crush On You 00:00 Tools
Danger Blues 00:00 Tools
Jackson (Live At Luxor, Cologne, May 2009) 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Me Space (MAN) 00:00 Tools
State of the Union 00:00 Tools
Isabel (Live At Luxor, Cologne, May 2009) 00:00 Tools
Hi How Are You (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
Sister Mary 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Me To Space (Man) (Live At Luxor, Cologne, May 2009) 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me (2) 00:00 Tools
Brakes - What's In It For Me 00:00 Tools
What’s In It For Me? - 2 00:00 Tools
Pick Up The Phone (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
You'll Always Have A Place To Stay (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
We Saw Jerry's Daughter 00:00 Tools
You'll Alwaays Have a Place to Stay 00:00 Tools
Tale of 2 Cities 00:00 Tools
Tabitha 00:00 Tools
You'll All Have To Stay 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Imponderables 00:00 Tools
What's in It for Me ? 00:00 Tools
Cheney (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
Heard About 00:00 Tools
why tell the truth 00:00 Tools
Brakes - All Nite Disco Party 00:00 Tools
Into The Ground - Album 00:00 Tools
Most Fun 00:00 Tools
I Fell In Love With A Girl 00:00 Tools
Don't Fuck Me Up (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
Pick Up The Phone (again) (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party [Herbert Remix] 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me? (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
03-the most fun 00:00 Tools
01 Hold me in the river 00:00 Tools
Sometimes Always (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
01-ring a ding ding 00:00 Tools
NY Pie (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
Porcupine Or Pinapple 00:00 Tools
Porcupine Or Pineapple (Live) 00:00 Tools
Brakes - Beatific Visions 00:00 Tools
The Needle 00:00 Tools
Whats In It For Me 00:00 Tools
When The Gypsies Came (live 21/09/04) 00:00 Tools
Why Tell the Truth? - When It's Easier to Lie 00:00 Tools
i can't stand to be beside you 00:00 Tools
What's in it For Me? - 2 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me? (1) 00:00 Tools
Supermarket - Album 00:00 Tools
The Way I See It 00:00 Tools
Brakesbrakesbrakes - Crush On You 00:00 Tools
Oh Forever (OST Gossip Girl) 00:00 Tools
Leaving England (6 Music Session, 11 Nov 2009) 00:00 Tools
After The Storm 00:00 Tools
Ring-A-Ding Ding 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (2006 Session) 00:00 Tools
You're So Pretty 00:00 Tools
10-you're so pretty 00:00 Tools
361 Margarita 00:00 Tools
13-hi how are you 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (2006 Re-edit) - VIDEO 00:00 Tools
03 If i should die tonight 00:00 Tools
Who Am I to Be? 00:00 Tools
02-my pie 00:00 Tools
Not the One 00:00 Tools
12-all nite disco party 00:00 Tools
15-sometimes always 00:00 Tools
First Dance 00:00 Tools
why tell the truth (when its easier to lie) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Hollow 00:00 Tools
Sometimes Always (Jesus And Mary Chain) 00:00 Tools
04-heard about 00:00 Tools
Lil Booba Freya 00:00 Tools
Brakes 00:00 Tools
Like A Rolling Stone 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Me To Space (Man) (6 Music Session, 11 Nov 2009) 00:00 Tools
Youre So Pretty 00:00 Tools
Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: Best of 09 - 38 - Don't Take Me To Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
Youll Always Have A Place To Stay 00:00 Tools
All Nite Disco Party 2.3 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (Live) 00:00 Tools
Fake In Love 00:00 Tools
11-jackson 00:00 Tools
05-what's in it for me 00:00 Tools
Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: May (2009) - 28 - Don't Take Me To Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
08-i can;t stand to stand beside you 00:00 Tools
You Always Have A Place To Stay 00:00 Tools
NY Basement Pie (Demo Version) 00:00 Tools
Cease and Desist (Live) 00:00 Tools
Why Tell The Truch (When It's Easier To Lie)? 00:00 Tools
Pick Up The Phone (Live) 00:00 Tools
08 Porcupine or pineapple 00:00 Tools
Fight Song 00:00 Tools
Why tell the truth when it's easier to lie 00:00 Tools
Brakes - Cease And Desist 00:00 Tools
06-you'll all have to stay 00:00 Tools
Big Money - Album 00:00 Tools
Most Fun - Brakes, Matt Eaton 00:00 Tools
Ring A Ding Ding - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Ring-a-ding-ding 00:00 Tools
Huevos Rancheros (Live) 00:00 Tools
CrystalTunings 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You (Live) 00:00 Tools
04-Brakes-Worry About It Later 00:00 Tools
01-Brakes-Two Shocks 00:00 Tools
Ring a Ding Ding (Live) 00:00 Tools
whats in it for me? 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me (6 Music Session, 11 Nov 2009) 00:00 Tools
02 Margherita 00:00 Tools
Don`t Take Me To Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
Hotel Lobby 00:00 Tools
09-pick up the phone 00:00 Tools
Sometimes Always - Brakes, 00:00 Tools
Lifes Work 00:00 Tools
I Heard About Your Band 00:00 Tools
Heard About Your Band - Brakes 00:00 Tools
04 Mobile communication 00:00 Tools
Heuvos Rancheros 00:00 Tools
02-Brakes-Don't Take Me To Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
11 No Return 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey (Demo) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party [Graham Sutton Remix] 00:00 Tools
Spring Chicken (Live) 00:00 Tools
NY Pie (Live) 00:00 Tools
Last Man On The Station 00:00 Tools
Comma Comma Comma Full Stop (Live) 00:00 Tools
Heard About Your Band (Live) 00:00 Tools
What Am I Gonna Do 00:00 Tools
Bittersweet Again 00:00 Tools
07-Brakes-Do You Feel The Same 00:00 Tools
12-allnitediscoparty 00:00 Tools
You?ll Always Have a Place to Stay 00:00 Tools
Cigarette In The Rain - Album 00:00 Tools
16-i fell in love with a girl 00:00 Tools
07 Beatific visions 00:00 Tools
NY Pie - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Jerry's Daughter 00:00 Tools
05 Spring chicken 00:00 Tools
03-Brakes-Red Rag 00:00 Tools
Animal Eyes 00:00 Tools
05-Brakes-Crush On You 00:00 Tools
I Dont Know Nothing About Hollywood 00:00 Tools
Fire Girl 00:00 Tools
02 Margarita 00:00 Tools
You?re So Pretty 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party [FC Kahuna Remix] 00:00 Tools
01 Ring A Ding Ding 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey (Blitzkrieg Edit) 00:00 Tools
Tale Of Two Cities - Album 00:00 Tools
State Of The Union - Album 00:00 Tools
Hold Me In The River (Video) 00:00 Tools
Why Tell The Truth (when It's Easier To 00:00 Tools
Eing A Ding Ding 00:00 Tools
The Beatific Visions 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Dont Take Me To Space (Man) 00:00 Tools
You're So Pretty - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Sometimes Always - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Forever Again 00:00 Tools
Ring A Ding Ding Ding 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays Arrival 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Crush On You (02.10) 00:00 Tools
Porcupine Or Pineapple (6 Music Session, 11 Nov 2009) 00:00 Tools
06-Brakes-Eternal Return 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Me To Space (Man 00:00 Tools
I Can’t Stand To Stand Beside You 00:00 Tools
08-Brakes-Ancient Mysteries 00:00 Tools
Strange Man In The City 00:00 Tools
09-Brakes-Oh! Forever 00:00 Tools
Brakes - Heard About Your Band 00:00 Tools
Hi How Are You (Live) 00:00 Tools
You’re So Pretty 00:00 Tools
10-Brakes-Hey Hey 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stand Beside You 00:00 Tools
01 - Ring A Ding Ding 00:00 Tools
Burnin Up 00:00 Tools
16 Fell In Love With A Girl 00:00 Tools
You'll Always Have A Place 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party - Brakes 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You - Brakes 00:00 Tools
You'll Always Have A Place To Stay - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Most Fun - Brakes 00:00 Tools
10 On Your Side 00:00 Tools
Hi How Are You - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Me to Space (Man) [Live] 00:00 Tools
No Return / [untitled] 00:00 Tools
Pick Up The Phone - Brakes 00:00 Tools
Don't Fuck Me Up 00:00 Tools
Why Tell The Truth? (When Its Easier To Lie) 00:00 Tools
Find My Way 00:00 Tools
The wrong way to be 00:00 Tools
Johann 00:00 Tools
09 Cease or desist 00:00 Tools
You’ll Always Have a Place to Stay 00:00 Tools
i can;t stand to stand beside you 00:00 Tools
Hey Hey (live) 00:00 Tools
04 Heard About Your Band 00:00 Tools
Leaving England~First Dance (Hidden Track Unmarked On CD) 00:00 Tools
What's In It For Me? (live 23/09/04) 00:00 Tools
13 Hi How Are You 00:00 Tools
Runnin Round 00:00 Tools
Down 00:00 Tools
Its A Shame 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (Truck Fest 2006) 00:00 Tools
NY Pie (Live Acoustic Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
All Night Disco Party (live 23/09/04) 00:00 Tools
Jackson - Brakes, Liela Moss 00:00 Tools
01 Hey Hey 00:00 Tools
11 - Jackson 00:00 Tools
Danger Blues - Album 00:00 Tools
Empty House - Album 00:00 Tools
Boat Trip - Album 00:00 Tools
15 Sometimes Always 00:00 Tools
12-Brakes-Leaving England 00:00 Tools
Ring A Ding Ding (Live Acoustic Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
Song Of Imponderables - Album 00:00 Tools
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There are at least two sets of Brakes. Joe Fadil, Keith Wilson, John Brown and Bob Renny made up The Brakes, a powerpop / mod group which released the album "For Why You Kicka My Donkey" on the Magnet label in 1979. The currently popular Brakes are a 4-piece band from Brighton, United Kingdom fronted by Eamon Hamilton, formerly of British Sea Power. They formed in 2002. Brakes (known as ‘Brakesbrakesbrakes’ on their US releases) were formed when Tom White (guitar) and Alex White (drums) of The Electric Soft Parade saw Eamon Hamilton (vocals, guitar) then of British Sea Power perform a solo gig supporting The Lonesome Organist in Brighton. Marc Beatty (bass) of Mockin' Bird Studios and The Tenderfoot (and who also worked with British Sea Power, when recording their debut album) was also soon recruited, and the band set about recording their debut single, "Pick Up the Phone", which was released on Tugboat Records in 2004. In early 2005 the band recorded their debut album, Give Blood, for Rough Trade Records. The album was released in July of the same year. The album features 16 songs (including re-recordings of the 3 tracks from their debut single) and runs for 29 minutes. It features duets with Leila Moss of The Duke Spirit on a cover of the Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash classic "Jackson" and with The Pipettes on a version of The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Sometimes Always".The album was voted the best of 2005 by Rough Trade shops. The album featured re-recorded versions of "Pick Up The Phone" and the tracks "I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You" and "Cheney" which also featured on their debut single, as well as the singles "All Night Disco Party" and "Ring A Ding Ding" Brakes toured with Belle & Sebastian in January and February 2006 and Editors in February and March 2006. The continued success of the band has lead to Eamon quitting his role as keyboardist for British Sea Power. What began as a side project has become a serious proposition. Brakes released their second album 'The Beatific Visions' in November 2006. On The Beatific Visions, they're more like the Pixies than ever before, having made a more "serious" album than their debut, Give Blood, while retaining their off-kilter aura. The Beatific Visions is dominated by direly catchy and fully fleshed-out songs that pop like punk, lilt like country, mutter politics, and reek of the garage: "Hold Me in the River" crashes along on an ornery, feel-good choogle; the twangy licks on "On Your Side" are so slippery that it sounds like guitarist Thomas White had chicken grease on his fingers. These are balanced out with tender ballads that don't sacrifice Brakes' dark, ridiculous wit, like the baggy trail-song "If I Should Die Tonight" ("tell her that I love her," Hamilton croons with fleeting sweetness, "or she might never know,"), the light-as-the-Shins ballad "Isabel", and standout track "No Return", a serene, blossoming hum that brings the album to a moving close. ‘The Beatific Visions’ draws on tender sentiments and imperative, unruly rock and roll, proving Brakes are a band capable of more than a handful of radio-friendly hooks. Enthralling critics and fans alike, the Killers were so impressed that they asked Brakes to join them on tour, while ‘The Beatific Visions’ was cited by Radio 1’s Colin Murray as his Album Of The Year, and voted Number 4 in Rough Trade Shops’ Best Albums of 2006. Brakes put their unique spin on another hypermodern trend, the mobile-communications-technology song. "Mobile communications let me down again," Eamon sings to a bad connection on this melting slow-burner. Brakes straddle the silly-serious fault line without slipping; Eamon's more refined vocal style-- rambunctious, squalling, charismatic and tuneful-- is a terrific conduit for such vibrantly contrasting content. If the pre-apocalyptic fear is omnipresent, so is the reckless abandon. Brakes signed to FatCat in October 2008, and released their third album ‘Touchdown’ - recorded by Paul Savage at Chem 19 Studios in Scotland - in April 2009. Whilst in the studio, accoustic versions of new and older songs were laid down and a live album was mixed. This was later released as 'Rock is Dodelijk' in February 2009 to favourable reviews from publications such as the NME and Pitchfork who praised its accurate documentation of Brakes' rambunctious live show. More recently Brakes embarked on a very successful US tour with fellow FatCat residents The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks in October 2009. The band's debut live album 'Rock is Dodelijk' - recorded partly in hometown Brighton and partly in Cologne, Germany - was released in November 2009. Their live set is notorious for its rambunctious energy and ear-splitting immediacy, and ‘Rock Is Dodelijk’ faithfully Brakes’ thrilling crash through it. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.