Brakes are four-piece angular rock band with punk and country influences formed in Brighton, England in 2003 by Marc Beatty, Alex White, Eamon Hamilton and Tom White who were all members of other established Brighton bands.

Signed to Rough Trade records they released their smart and highly enjoyable debut album 'Give Blood' in 2005, an intense stripped down record recorded live to two-inch tape in just five days and with zero use of computers. The album featured heavily in 'best of year' lists as the band proceeded to go on tour to cement their reputation for incendiary live performances. Sometimes shambolic, often breath-taking, always arresting, always entertaining.

In a small break from touring in ealry 2006, the band flew to Nashville and recorded their second album, The Beatific Visions, with Stuart Sikes. The album was released to universal acclam and was voted the best record of 2006 by BBC Radio 1's Colin Murray.

In November 2007, after 4 years of near constant touring the band decided on one more bout of recording before taking a two month break. They went to a small barn in Oxfordshire and spent a week sleeping beside each other on the floor in -7C temperatures to spend their waking hours recording new tracks. After signing with Brighton based label Fat Cat the band set off for further recording and mixing in Glasgow, followed by a mastering session in New York with Alan Douches. The spectacular result was the 'best-yet' album 'Touchdown'

Brakes are a band who take their influences, ingest them, produce something genuinely unique and, crucially, sound like no one but themselves.