The Raincoats is the debut album by English post-punk band the Raincoats. It was released on 21 November 1979 as one of the first records issued by the London-based independent label Rough Trade. The album is perhaps best known for its off-kilter cover of "Lola" by the Kinks. The album peaked at number 5 on the UK Indie Chart. The album was ranked number 41 by Paste on their list of "The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums", number 39 by Treble on "The 100 Best Post-Punk Albums", number 6 by PopMatters in "The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever", and number 398 by Rolling Stone on their list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rai...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)