Pitchfork: Brakes Preview Second Album on Tour

Brighton's Brakes have a vision...more than one, actually. The quartet is gearing up to release its sophomore LP, an eleven-tracker for Rough Trade titled The Beatific Visions. It is slated for a November 6 release.

Bassist Marc Beatty said of the record in a press release, "I like to think of this album as the soundtrack to a great battle between good and evil where the world almost cracks in half, sucking everyone into a life of eternal darkness and misery." So basically, the band's not fucking around.

Brakes will preview The Beatific Visions at a handful of October gigs in London. After that, they'll cross the UK and Spain for a full-blown tour, including four stops at the Wintercase festival.

The Beatific Visions tracklist:

01 Hold Me in the River
02 Margarita
03 If I Should Die Tonight
04 Mobile Communication
05 Spring Chicken
06 Isabel
07 Beatific Vision
08 Porcupine or Pineapple
09 Cease and Desist
10 On Your Side
11 No Return

Dates:

10-16 London, England - White Heat at Luminaire *
10-19 London, England - Borderline at Club Fandango #
10-23 London, England - Trash at the End
10-26 London, England - Adventures in the Beetroot Field at Fabric
11-09 London, England - Fopp (instore performance)
11-09 London, England - Another Music = Another Kitchen at Proud Galleries
11-23 Bilbao, Spain - Santana 27 (Wintercase) ^
11-24 Madrid, Spain - Joy Eslava (Wintercase) ^
11-25 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 2 (Wintercase) ^
11-26 Valencia, Spain - Sala Cormoran (Wintercase) ^
11-28 Cardiff, Wales - Point
11-29 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
11-30 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Radar Club at Speakeasy
12-01 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
12-02 Leeds, England - Cockpit
12-03 Manchester, England - Roadhouse
12-04 Birmingham, England - Bar Academy
12-05 London, England - King's College
12-08 Brighton, England - Pavilion Theatre

* with Blood Red Shoes
# with the Hours, the Mescalitas
^ with Surfin' Bitches