Another Form of Relief

It doesn’t seem like two years ago that I first heard The Rakes and got their quite good but nothing spectacular album ‘Capture/Release’. It is though, and they have a new album coming up in a couple of months entitled ‘Ten New Messages’. This took me by surprise, and it turns out you can already listen to the first single from it on their Myspace page. It’s not really grabbing me on first listen, but we’ll see how it goes.

It also turns out that the first song on the album is the wonderful ‘The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect’, which has been floating around online for about a year now in two forms. There’s a regular version that runs about five minutes and another that runs eighteen. Much as I like some of the stuff in the extended one, I’m going to assume that the shorter version will be opening the album. It’s a good choice though, even if it’s all rather low key. Hopefully the “pub conversation” section from the original makes it into the album version too. I like conversations set to music. I’m odd like that.

Anyway, today we have a radio session that The Rakes recorded last July for Minnesota Public Radio. It contains three songs, two of them being singles from the first album and the aforementioned ‘World Was A Mess’. Quality is excellent, and it’s fun the way Alan Rake seems to play with the songs midway through them. I’m also guessing that this was broadcast in the daytime thanks to the entirely unsubtle self-censoring of various words. Including “crap”. Go figure.

MP3 The Rakes - 22 Grand Job (live) (expired)
MP3 The Rakes - The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect (live) (expired)
MP3 The Rakes - Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep) (live) (expired)

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