Brakes are four-piece angular rock band with punk and country influences formed in Brighton, England in 2001 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.

Their second album, The Beatific Visions, ranges from intensely personal songs of love lost and painfully remembered to diatribes against religious fervour and the loss of the presumption of innocence to observations of current geo-politics. Sometimes such sentiments are wrapped around riotous, deliriously entertaining ejections of clanging guitars and pounding drums but there's always room for sentimentality and geuine love in the world of Brakes.

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