The Rascals

The Rascals 的首张专辑在眾英国媒体和年轻人的期待下出来了，The Rascals将专辑命名为《Rascalize》，而‘Rascalize’这个单词是The Rascals独立创的，他们希望他们的首张够特殊，更加吸引人。同时他们的野心也不小，也在努力的将自己独创的单词‘Rascalize’让政府收纳到词典中去。很显然，他们是一群有著十分傲气的小伙子，谁让主唱Miles Kane是那麽有势力和号召力的人，一年只内能够出俩张专辑，《Rascalize》和The Last Shadow Puppets 的《The Age of the Understatement》。很明显，俩张专辑的成绩和质量都不错。这也难怪The Rascals 没有将之前的成功单曲“Suspicious Wit”收录到首张专辑中，因为在他们看来，《Rascalize》是一张不缺乏这样成功单曲的专辑，他们很相信他们的实力。 The Rascals 不同於其他新乐队的特点就是在编曲上面，十分擅长编曲，而且会将其编的宏伟，霸气. Influenced by the moody, mercurial, and mysterious Scott Walker, and their hometown's own exciting musical pedigree, Liverpool/Wirral's Rascals formed in September 2006. Members Miles Kane (guitars), Joe Edwards (bass), and Greg Mighall (drums) had paid their dues as members of the band Little Flames, but were finding themselves at odds with the band's direction and decided to make a go of it on their own. Having befriended the rather ‘on-fire' Arctic Monkeys whilst touring with them as part of the Little Flames, the Rascals landed their first gig as support for the Sheffield combo in Cardiff. The band soon found themselves in possession of a record deal — with Deltasonic — in 2007, and released their first EP, Out of Dreams, in December of that year. With an EP and a UK tour under their belts, the Rascals spent the early part of 2008 recording their debut full length, which was to be released in June. In addition to a full recording schedule, the Rascals were also set for a UK tour in the early summer of 2008, and a Japanese jaunt to play the Fuji Rock Festival in July. A preview of the album, the single "Suspicious Wit," was released in February of what was to be a busy '08.