‘Forget Razorlight and their ‘all my life I've wanted to shift units in America', The Race are the real winners in the anthemic indie stakes...like Arcade Fire covering the first Supergrass album.'
NME (Be Your Alibi 2007)
‘A tight confident band oozing a refreshingly different feeling....this is no regular band.'
The Fly (Be Your Alibi 2007)
'An unapologetic, impassioned and impressive call to arms... transports you away from the drabness of four walls....positively sparkles.'
Drowned in Sound (Be Your Alibi 2007)
When The Race released their debut album Be Your Alibi, the acclaim it met with was positive and across the board. They were quickly tacked onto NME club tours, toured the UK and Europe with the likes of Cooper Temple Clause and Seafood, and invited to perform live from Maida Vale for Radio 1's Huw Stephens' in a show celebrating the 10th anniversary of the band's highly distinguished record label Shifty Disco.
Two years on and I Get It Wrong is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming second album In My Head It Works. Produced by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild) it packs all the stadium sized clout of The Killers alongside the subtlety and chiming song writing prowess of The National or Arcade Fire. The Race admit to turning to these kinds of North American artists for inspiration, and looked to draw on the magical realism of Arcade Fire as opposed to the current crop of UK indie kitchen sink dramatists. They judder and stumble with visceral intensity before alighting all at once on the big pop hook with an apparently effortless grace.
It's this notion of grace that typifies The Race's musical output. Although there's an overt element of sweeping anthemia to everything they do, there's an undeniable attention to detail in everything from the fretwork to the sonics. I Get It Wrong is an outstanding single that bodes extremely well for the new album. Welcome back guys.
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