{"id":13039,"date":"2020-05-07T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=13039"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:52:07","slug":"alternative-rockers-i-like-trains-present-super-single-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/alternative-rockers-i-like-trains-present-super-single-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Rockers I LIKE TRAINS present super single \u2018The Truth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds-based trailblazers I LIKE TRAINS<\/a> <\/strong>present \u2018The Truth\u2019<\/strong><\/a>, an eye-opening lead track that forebodes their potent, hard-hitting new album \u2018KOMPROMAT\u2019<\/strong><\/a>, written as an instinctive gut reaction to a world that has changed beyond all recognition. This is a record that digs beneath populism\u2019s rise, from the divide and conquer tactics that caused Brexit in the UK, to Trump\u2019s ascent in America and the subsequent reign of lies and misinformation, to discover the grubby hands that have engineered it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British quintet will release their fourth studio album via Schubert Music<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s newly founded Atlantic Curve<\/a> <\/strong>label in late summer. This is the band\u2019s first record since 2012\u2019s \u2018The Shallows\u2019<\/strong>, which focused on how the internet and smart technology is re-wiring the human mind and affecting our concentration spans. Now, with \u2018KOMPROMAT\u2019, it\u2019s clear that this same technology, in the wrong hands, has taken an even more sinister turn. The game has changed \u2013 and I LIKE TRAINS have changed with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accompanying deep-fake karaoke video was directed by previous co-conspirator Michael Connolly<\/strong>, a Leeds born artist and designer, who says \u201cThe track is relentless and I wanted the film to feel the same. Claustrophobia and confusion were my watch words. I combined deepfakes, distorted visuals, and digital cut-up techniques to create an intense level of disorientation. It sums up the last four years in geopolitics for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Truth\u2019 was the last track to come together during the group\u2019s recording sessions \u2013 a summation of the way in which facts are bent and, in many cases, utterly dismantled. Over a burring build of disco-inflected post-punk that recalls LCD Soundsystem and early DFA Records, \u201cThe truth is no longer concerned with the facts\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d been writing this list on my phone for a couple of months, adding a couple of lines
to it every so often. I\u2019d read a news article or a tweet and I\u2019d make reference to it. I decided to dig out this list in the last couple of days in the studio [for this track]. It\u2019s pretty much the order I wrote it in \u2013 it came together on the fifth take and it was a pretty cathartic process,\u201d says the group\u2019s vocalist and lyricist David Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formed in 2004, I LIKE TRAINS is made up of David Martin <\/strong>(vocals\/guitar), Alistair Bowis <\/strong>(bass), Guy Bannister <\/strong>(guitar\/synths), Simon Fogal <\/strong>(drums) and Ian Jarrold <\/strong>(guitar). They have never shied away from confronting the possibility of humanity\u2019s collapse. Earlier records, like the towering Godspeed-influenced \u2018Progress Reform\u2019<\/strong> (2006) and \u2018Elegies to Lessons Learnt\u2019<\/strong> (2007) took tales of tragic characters and events from history and applied them to the modern day, while \u2018He Who Saw The Deep\u2019<\/strong> (2010) looked uneasily ahead to the climate change battle we are on the verge of losing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While \u2018KOMPROMAT\u2019 sounds like none of those records, it contains DNA from all of them. I LIKE TRAINS has essentially gone back to go forwards in some ways, returning to some of the primary influences that inspired the band\u2019s formation: Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Gang of Four, Television and The Velvet Underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn I LIKE TRAINS record doesn\u2019t really start to take shape until there\u2019s a theme. That point came following Edward Snowden\u2019s NSA leaks in 2013,\u201d says David Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t set out to write a record about current affairs, but the path we set out on converged drastically with that daily discourse. The album inadvertently became about populist politics across the world. Brexit, Trump, Cambridge Analytics and covert Russian influence ended up at the centre of it all\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, Martin started writing about low-key, insidious intrusions on our privacy. As global events unfolded, however, so did the importance of those themes: the perception of what is true and what isn\u2019t true being challenged on a daily basis and how that confusion could be used to manipulate populations into thinking and voting in certain ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several years ago, British filmmakers Ben Lankester <\/strong>and Matt Hopkins <\/strong>released the feature documentary ‘A Divorce Before Marriage’<\/strong><\/a>, which follows the band members over three years, capturing their struggles first-hand. Then, as now, one thing is for sure \u2013 while I LIKE TRAINS often look back and also to the future, \u2018The Truth\u2019 speaks very much of the here and now. Available across digital platforms as of May 6, the full \u2018KOMPROMAT\u2019 album will be released on August 21 on black vinyl LP, limited edition silver vinyl LP and CD, as well as digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I LIKE TRAINS will be under interrogation on Saturday, May 9th. Hard hitting music journalist Simon Catling <\/strong>will be pressing for answers on ‘KOMPROMAT’. Join the live-stream on I LIKE TRAINS’ YouTube<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> from 20:30 (BST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CREDITS<\/strong>
Performed by I LIKE TRAINS
Music by Guy Bannister, Alistair Bowis, Simon Fogal, David Martin, Ian Jarrold
Lyrics by David Martin
Produced and mixed by Lee Smith and Jamie Lockhart at Greenmount Studios (Leeds)
Mastered by Tom Woodhead at Hippocratic Mastering
Album artwork by Michael Connolly
\u2018The Truth\u2019 video created by Michael Connolly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘The Truth\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/youtu.be\/QjyR2V5dDLg<\/a>
\u2018The Truth\u2019 order\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/orcd.co\/ilt_thetruth<\/a>
Spotify<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/5yat5V7evpQKJgM7LUhCiV<\/a>
‘KOMPROMAT’ pre-order<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/orcd.co\/ilt_ kompromat<\/a>
A Divorce Before Marriage (Official Trailer)\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/youtu.be\/KvzRBIPtMzA<\/a>
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Article photo:<\/em><\/strong> Ben Bentley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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