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Album Reviews
Album Review: Brakes – Rock Is Dodeljik (FatCat)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 6 November 2009
The first live album from Brighton’s Brakes sees two concerts of their explosive live set used to create one whole record. It’s an interesting technique, which sees the first thirteen songs come from a hometown gig, and then the remaining seven taken “raw” from the mixing desk in Cologne. This means that we get a couple of songs twice and Eamon signs off with ‘Comma Comma Comma Full Stop’ half way through. Which is a bit strange.
Still, the album as a whole is a great indication of the energy that Brakes always have live – an energy which often converts people who maybe aren’t so taken with their records – and this really comes across in a set that spans all three of their albums.
From the raucus opening of ‘Hi How Are You’, which could have been written to back up Andy CMU’s recent CMU Weekly rant about people talking at gigs (“won’t you shut the fuck up I’m just trying to watch the band!”) to the closing country jig of Johnny Cash cover ‘Jackson’, we see Brakes in all their guises on this record.
So yeah, great stuff. But, to be honest, it still doesn’t quite match up to seeing them in a sweaty pit of a venue somewhere, so I recommend you get out there and do that first. IM
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