Featuring members of British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade and The Tenderfoot, Brakes is a kind of playground for members of eccentric British guitar bands in which they can lose everything they can’t get out of their system in their own bands. As a result their albums are a far cry from being consistent. Which doesn’t mean they’re not interesting or good, it’s just harder to get a grasp on these guys.
Things are no different on “Touchdown” which opens with “Two Shocks”, a song that might as well have been written by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. “Red Rag” on the other hand is an all-out assault on your ears that goes on for a minute and a half, before the Pixies rear their ugly head in “Crush On You”. Other bands that came to mind at one point or another during these 35 minutes are Idlewild, Guided By Voices and some more Pixies in “Oh! Forever” before things come to a beautiful halt with the Nick Drake-esque “Leaving England”.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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