The Rakes

Proof that certain fantastic one is all it requires to produce a band’s name, the Rakes burst onto the London music picture in 2004 with “22 Grand Job,” a pithy punk satire of crappy entry-level workplace jobs. Various tales swirled about how exactly the music group — which highlighted vocalist/guitarist Alan Donohoe, guitarist Matthew Swinnerton, bassist Jamie Hornsmith, and drummer Lasse Petersen — met up, ranging from complex tales of get together on the air travel to Amsterdam towards the even more plausible explanation to be childhood close friends. The Rakes performed a few regional schedules before unleashing 22 Grand Work, that was released being a limited-edition 7″ by Garbage Aesthetics, also the first house to Bloc Party. The one also appeared over the Fierce Panda compilation EP Over the Buzzes. The music group spent that springtime and summer months recording and helping like-minded acts such as for example Bloc Party, others, and Artwork Brut. Within the fall, the Rakes released their second one, Strasbourg, on Town Rockers and embarked on the initial tour. After putting your signature on with V2, the music group rang in 2005 by gigging and focusing on their debut record. The singles Retreat and Function, Work, Function (Pub, Club, Rest) expected the released of Catch/Release within the U.K. in summer months 2005. Dim Mak released Retreat as an EP within the U.S. that fall, coinciding using the Rakes’ initial stateside tour. Catch/Release found its way to the U.S. in springtime 2006. An EP of remixes in 2007 preceded the band’s second record Ten New Text messages, which made an appearance that springtime. The music group returned using the noisier Klang, that was released in the U.K. in springtime 2009; the week prior to the album’s U.S. launch that fall, the music group announced inside a declaration that these were parting ways.