Raikes – The Talk EP
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| Raikes - The Talk EP |
Release Date: Out Now
There’s only one thing better
than discovering a great new band and that’s discovering a great new band that
live within spitting distance of where you live. This EP from Liskeard lads
Raikes has been around for a little while but I’m only just getting around to
it now so, y’know, sorry about that. Opening up with the intricate guitar
interplay of title track ‘Talk’ there are tones of Radiohead and Ride in that
gentle, introspective indie style that comes out of the small town living in
the UK (which out for the kick though, this one’s got a real kick). ‘Home’ is
up next and has a more homespun folky vibe to it with soft vocals and that
intricate guitar work once again before some strings give this a swell and then
there’s a triumphant splash as they sing, “This is our home, the sun it always warms my
bones”.
On ‘Fault’ the band channel
Travis at their peak but with a greater sense of purpose and when the chorus
kicks in you really know about it – the guitars soar and the vocals strain to
within an inch of going out tune without ever going out of tune. This
collection closes out with ‘Matador’ and while Raikes are minimalist when it
comes to song titles their music is the exact opposite. With that soft vocalled
intricate start a feature again, the song soon builds in to some expansive,
horizon scanning swell which brings to mind the likes of Contact Mo, Feeder and
Elbow. Raikes seem to have harnessed the power, beauty and energy of the
Cornish landscape and somehow fed it down the various microphones and mixers to
produce this EP. A powerful and heady mix if you’re up for it.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/raikesuk/
Live Dates:
14th April – The Tamar Inn, Calstock
22nd April – BBC Introducing @ Porthleven Food
Festival, Porthleven
1st June – Finn McCouls, Falmouth
1st-3rd June – BBC Introducing @ Great
Estate Festival
9th June – Star Inn Ale & Music Festival, Vogue
23rd June – Bar 35, Bude
6th July – Studio Bar, Penzance
7th July – Bridge On Wool, Wadebridge
21st July – Lafrowda Festival, St Just
10th-12th August – Lover Summer Festival,
Plymouth
18th August – Ploughman’s Festival, Liskeard