ARTiST: iLiKETRAiNS
TiTLE: Elegies To Lessons Learnt
LABEL: Beggars Banquet
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 50:39 min
SiZE: 68,2 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-15-2007
RELEASE DATE: Oct-01-2007
WEBSiTE: www.iliketrains.co.uk
Track List:
01. We All Fall Down 06:12
02. Twenty Five Sins 03:40
03. The Deception 03:59
04. The Voice Of Reason 05:00
05. Death Of An Idealist 03:26
06. Remenants Of An Army 03:57
07. We Go Hunting 03:25
08. Come Over 04:11
09. Spencer Perceval 09:10
10. Epiphany 02:18
11. Death Is The End 05:21
Release Notes:
Like a down and desperate, less fearsome Nick Cave,
with Bad Seeds in tow, iLiKETRAiNS are a reverential
and austere affair. Tracks flow into one another,
each one a deliciously ostentatious display of
talent (however we wish to define it) and intellect.
Like their Leeds contemporaries, This Et Al, they
have a fine line in atmospheric orchestration,
though they lack the frenetic activity of their
peers, replacing it instead with sombre, elegiac
crescendos. In 'Remnants of An Army', you find
yourself engaging with images of a windswept English
hill, surrounded by horse-mounted soldiers, some
hundreds of years ago, as the inadequately-named
singer 'Dave' half-whispers, half-moans the words
hold back the cavalry. There's a pain and
deadly-seriousness in the vocals that chills the
blood, punched into your consciousness by bombastic
drumbeats and shrill, haunting guitar lines.
iLiKETRAiNS are immersed in archaic imagery: the pin
badges they sell to their fans are facsimiles of the
old-style badges worn by railway workers, the songs
on this album are all concerned with catastrophic
events throughout history, their videos claw at
glimpses of the past, outdated technology and retold
stories.
You can't dance to it, you can't impress your
12-year old nephew with it, it will not get any
party started but this is the kind of music that
envelopes you, pulls your eyelids shut and draws
thunderbolts down your spinal column.