For their second album Brighton’s Brakes seconded to Nashville and let the rich history of country music flow through them. Though the sound is largely a mix of The Pixies, The dead Kennedys and The Clash, the country influence is apparent across the eleven tracks and a few country songs do make it into the mix.

The band fire through the album’s eleven tracks with the giddy energy of a band who love what they’re doing, and it’s hard not to have some of that enthusiasm run off on you. Eamon Hamilton’s vocals take a little while to get used (think Black Francis’ weirder moments almost all the time) but once you do (and you will) you’ll let them take you anywhere.

Label: Rough Trade
Website: www.brakesbrakesbrakes.com
Release date: 6th November 2006

Tracklist:

1. Hold Me In The River
2. Margherita
3. If I Should Die Tonight
4. Mobile Communication
5. Spring Chicken
6. Isabel
7. Beatific Visions
8. Porcupine Or Pineapple?
9. Cease And Desist
10. On Your Side
11. No Return