Description:	7" on Rough Trade
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Rough Trade
	Price:	£1.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Phil on 02 March 2007.

The new BRAKES 7" called Cease & Desist is all sealed and that and I'm loathed to open a sealed vinyl to inform you of the delights within so I shall refrain for the time being. So instead I shall review the sleeve. The front of the sleeve has some rather fetching old style cards on, and some red and white counters. Slightly indented like plates they are.... possibly tiddlywinks counters but they could be a bit too large. What spoils the cover is a small black sticker on the top left with some info about a competition where you can win free entry to all of their gigs depending on what word is written on the card inside. I guess that's why they're sealed.... The back of the sleeve has some song titles, an image take from Found magazine and the other essential info you get on the back of sleeve. Reasonably boring. I did notice there is a Camper van Beethoven cover though which is nice....

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What their label says...

LABEL: ROUGH TRADE

TRACKLISTING:

Side 1:

Cease & Desist

Side 2:

We Saw Jerry's Daughter

Huevos Rancheros

All 7” will include a playing card – ace of spades is the winning ticket – wins a Golden Ticket (winner+1) to all Brakes headline shows in 2007

Brakes toured, wrote and recorded their way through 2006 – they supported Editors, Belle & Sebastian, played festivals throughout the summer, recorded their second album in Nashville and ended the year supporting The Killers and selling out their own UK tour.

Their album “The Beatific Visions” was released to universal acclaim. The first single “Hold Me In The River” became the single of the week on stations including Radio 6, XFM, and Radio 1, they played live on The Album Chart Show, and the video was play listed on MTV2.

Brakes went back into the studio in the New Year to record two new songs, which appear as b-side on the 7 inch. “Cease and Desist” out 26th Feb, is a song inspired by Phillip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Material’, by the Romeo Dellaire documentary ‘Shake Hands With The Devil’, by the old testament story The Book of Job and by the music of Johnny Cash!