Distinctly NYC guitar-band sound, The Rake’s Progress has club veteran feel. Clever lyrics and clean production with Replacements influence laced throughout.
This is no screechy girl band, they harmonize and feature such instrumentation as a violin while managing to shake your neighbor’s Dali prints off the walls.
The humor of the name (the fire proof storage warehouse on Mass Ave) carries through in the colorful punk gone haywire. The samples are an added bonus.
A higher degree of writing than on Cereal Killer. Playability has increased along with the production, enabling the songs to stand alone without the videos.