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Trained as a painter but best known for his role as a founding member (and the extraordinarily agile bassist) of chamber pop heavy-hitters Ra Ra Riot, Mathieu Santos has surprised us all by his debut solo efforts in “I Can Hear The Trains Coming.” Applying his visual artist’s focus on only the most essential compositional elements, Santos wrote and recorded “I Can Hear The trains Coming” quickly maintaining the impulsive freedom of the original writing process but stripping down the palette and creating an arresting sonic environment that sparkles with tantalizing abstract [...]

• Mathieu Santos - I Can Hear The Trains Coming