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I Like Trains announce new album, release new single The Truth
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 7 May 2020
I Like Trains have announced that they will release their first album for eight years, titled ‘Kompromat’, later this year. First single ‘The Truth’ sets up the theme of misinformation that spans the album.
“This was one of the final tracks to come together for the album”, says vocalist David Martin. “It came from a list I was keeping over a number of months. I would follow the news and social media and add a line or two a day, so that it ended up plotting the news cycle over that period”.
“The amount of information we’re fed on a daily basis is enormous”, he continues. “Everyone is so keen to ‘break’ the news as quickly as possible, that it becomes impossible to comprehend it, and draw a meaningful narrative through it. How does this event connect to that one? Who gains what because this happened? Who is missing out? It’s exhausting”.
As for how this fits in with the rest of the album, he says: “An I Like Trains record doesn’t really start to take shape until there’s a theme. That point came following Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks in 2013. We didn’t 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 Analytica and covert Russian influence ended up at the centre of it all”.
Last month the band became the first signing to Shubert Music’s new Atlantic Curve label. The company is set to release ‘Kompromat’ on 21 Aug. The band will discuss the album with journalist Simon Catling in a livestream on their Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages on Saturday 9 May ay 8.30pm UK time.
Listen to ‘The Truth’ here:
