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UPDATE 23rd August 2005
New On The Chart
The Rakes may tread a well worn path of English rock influences (
Buzzcocks,
The Cure,
The Jam, even on occasion
'Grey Day' era
Madness) but unlike fellow travellers
Bloc Party, they do so with a rawness and infectious enthusiasm that breaths new life into what should, in this post
Libertines world of ours, be a rather tired genre.
Rather, this is an album that, for the most part at least, crackles with excitement. Initially it's the buzzsaw punk rockers like hail-of-German-in-an-Estuarine-accent opener
'Strasbourg' or the post casual sex panic of
'The Guilt' that garners most attention but with a little time it's the less frantic numbers that reveal
The Rakes true qualities.
Those highlights include the
Libertines-a-like
'22 Grand Job' which makes satisfyingly good use of James Hornsmith's consistently rumbly bass, while
'Binary Love' sounds like it could have come straight of a peak period
Blur album. Elsewhere something as simplistic as
'Work Work Work (Pub, Club, Sleep) has no right to sound just as good as it does, as it ticks
by like some sort of metronomic, 21st century, urban folk tale.
On the down side a couple of tracks stray towards the generic (
'We Are All Animals' raise your paw) but overall
'Capture/Release', if not a classic, certainly lives up to the hype more than most NME endorsed rock.
The Rakes debut scores 7.00 and enters Konstantiranks at no. 15
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RE-EVALUATION ROUND UP
Drunken, Scottish, shouty-lady fronted
Sons and Daughters posted a revivial of sorts adding 0.10 to their previous total and as a result leap frog the likes of
LCD Soundsystem and
Eastern Lane on the chart. Following on from last years
Love The Cup, and impressive in parts, it's an album that suffers from mining the same seam a little too extensively. As a result the Glasgow based band have to content themselves with a Konstantirating of 6.70, disappointing, I'm sure, for all concerned.
KONSTANTIRANKS 2005 (CURRENT STANDINGS)
1. two gallants - THE THROES 7.66
2. edgar 'jones' jones - SOOTHING MUSIC FOR STRAY CATS 7.62*
3. mogwai - GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONS 7.40*
4. the fiery furnaces - EP 7.40*
5. antony & the johnsons - I AM A BIRD NOW 7.38*
6. the broken family band - WELCOME HOME, LOSER 7.23
7. the white stripes - GET BEHIND ME SATAN 7.16
8. edan - BEAUTY AND THE BEAT 7.16
9. arcade fire - FUNERAL 7.15*
10. king creosote - ROCKET D.I.Y 7.12*
11. roots manuva - AWFULLY DEEP 7.08*
12. smog - AIN'T TOO MUCH TO LOVE A RIVER 7.00*
13. mark mulcahy - IN PURSUIT OF YOUR HAPPINESS 7.00*
14. laura cantrell - HUMMING BY THE FLOWERED VINE 7.00
15. the rakes - CAPTURE/RELEASE 7.00
16. mek obaam - YOU AND I 7.00
17. the go-betweens - OCEANS APART 6.94*
18. caribou - THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS 6.94*
19. teenage fanclub - MAN MADE 6.91*
20. amon tobin - CHAOS THEORY 6.90*
21. four tet - EVERYTHING ECSTATIC 6.88*
22. matt sweeney & bonnie prince billy - SUPERWOLF 6.86*
23. spoon - GIMME FICTION 6.85
24. whitey - THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS A TRAIN 6.85*
25. thievery corporation - THE COSMIC GAME 6.80*
26. fog - 10th AVENUE FREAKOUT 6.76*
27. malcolm middleton - INTO THE WOODS 6.75
28. low - THE GREAT DESTROYER 6.72*
29. clor - CLOR 6.72
30. sons and daughters - THE REPULSION BOX 6.70*
31. lcd Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM 6.66*
32. aesop rock - FAST CARS, DANGER, FIRE & KNIVES 6.64*
33. eastern lane - THE ARTICLE 6.63*
34. emiliana torrini - FISHERMAN'S WOMAN 6.62*
35. stephen malkmus - FACE THE TRUTH 6.58
36. cagedbaby - WILL SEE YOU NOW 6.50
37. brakes - GIVE BLOOD 6.50
38. beck - GUERO 6.43*
39. bloc party - SILENT ALARM 6.42*
40. sufjan steven - ILLINOIS 6.41
41. field music - FIELD MUSIC 6.41
42. jose gonzalez - VENEER 6.40*
43. minotaur shock - MARITIME 6.36
44. the shortwave set - THE DEBT COLLECTION 6.30
45. the national - ALLIGATOR 6.19*
46. momus - OTTO SPOOKY 5.53
tbr - quasimoto - THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LORD QUAS
tbr- viarosa - WHERE THE KILLERS ROAM
tbr - hollowpaw - QUIT +/OR FIGHT
