Video: iLiKETRAiNS - 'Spencer Perceval'

iLiKETRAiNS - 'Spencer Perceval'
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Album review – iLiKETRAiNS – ‘Elegies To Lessons Learnt’

Oct 7, 2007, 9:36am galactic mystery solvers

iLiKETRAiNS are what would happen if Alan Bennett’s History Boys put on a show to save the old clubhouse. Musically, they’re not exactly revisionists: Hope Of The States, delivered the same mix of formal attire, Morricone-bombast, and Radiohead’s sorrowful politics, but with a British wit and lightness of touch that pitched them as distant, moody cousins of the Libertines. Perhaps iLiKETRAiNS have learnt lessons from HotS’ miserable fate: their baritone vocals bracket them with more successful Joy Division interpreters like Interpol or Editors, and they achieve greater gravitas than either by rooting their cryptic set-pieces in dark and [...]

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Do you like trains? iLiKETRAiNS!

Aug 20, 2007, 12:49pm Rock Sellout

I'm late to the iLiKETRAiNS station, but I'm glad I finally arrived. Listening to their new album is a bit like taking a trip back in time to 1994. There are disctinct echoes of the glory days of Suede here - their debut especially. Though on the whole they actually harken back to an even earlier sound - Shoegaze. I've never much cared for that term, mostly because a load of really crap bands eventually identified themselves as such. So when I say Shoegaze, I mean the cream of the crop - Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and [...]

• iLiKETRAiNS - The Deception

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Artist:	iLiKETRAiNS
Title:	The Deception
Link Text:	iLiKETRAiNS - The Deception
File Name:	03 The Deception.mp3
Bitrate:	260 kbps
Year:	2007

Today's Brew | iLiKETRAiNS

Apr 27, 2007, 9:56am Audio Deficit Disorder

A band from Leeds, UK with either the most annoying name, because the way it chooses to use all caps except for the three letter I's, which are lowercase- and then squish it in one word. Or they are just plain pretentious with this whole gimmick with the names and their look. But if you were to look pass all that, their music has much more of a substance than what they play themselves as being. Their sound is ethereal and a bit dark and gloomy (must be the English air?)- Almost in the same vein as Sigur Ros [...]

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Title:	terra
Link Text:	iLikeTrains- "Terra Nova"(not complete song)
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review: iLiKETRAiNS - "Spencer Perceval"

Apr 9, 2007, 3:22pm extrawack!

Question: Who’s doing what iLiKETRAiNS are doing? Answer: No one, at least, no one as good as they’re doing it. The boys from Leeds create what’s been tagged "library rock," taking people and events from history and writing songs about them, often in the voice of the subject. Their debut EP, issued in the UK last year, Progress Reform, features tracks like Terra Nova (about Robert Falcon Scott’s failed South Pole expedition), The Beeching Report (about British railway reformer Richard Beeching) and A Rook House For Bobby [...]

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iLiKETRAiNS : "Spencer Perceval" (Beggars Banquet)

Apr 1, 2007, 6:45pm Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep

The rather charming Czech blog, Getecho , alerted me to the new iLiKETRAiNS single, " Spencer Perceval ". I was quite impressed with the brooding nature of their " Progress: Reform " Ep last year and featured them in the tips for 2007 post. This track is eccentrically English, dark, epic and is what I'd call progress from this young band. It has the potential to propel them into the big leagues. This is what Sigur Ros would have sounded like if they had to put up with the miserable UK [...]

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iLiKETRAiNS mit neuem Video

Mar 30, 2007, 9:43am Coast Is Clear - der Indie-Pop-Blog

Wer mal ein großartiges, episches, kunstvolles und düster-verstörendes Video sehen möchte, sollte sich den neuen Clip der britischen Post-Rocker iLiKETRAiNS «Spencer Perceval» anschauen. Nebenbei auch ein fantastischer, komplett popfreier Song im 9:30-Minutenmaxiformat. Nichts für Suizidgefährdete... :-)

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You were the rope around my neck

Mar 29, 2007, 4:54pm Are You Gene Hackman?

No strangers to writing songs of epic, historical import and bombast (yes, both those things), Leeds geniuses iLiKETRAiNS follow last year's excellent 'Progress/Reform' EP with a new single, out this week in the UK. It's called 'Spencer Perceval', after the only British Prime Minister to ever be assassinated. It's about ten minutes long, huge, and sung from the perspective of the assassin, John Bellingham. On the flipside is the song 'I Am Murdered', Perceval's response to Bellingham. Hypothetically. It's slower and more mournful, which I suppose makes sense. Best lyric: " I've kept the French [...]

• iLiKETRAiNS - I Am Murdered

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Artist:	iLiKETRAiNS
Title:	I Am Murdered
Link Text:	download iLiKETRAiNS - I Am Murdered
File Name:	02 - I Am Murdered.mp3
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Year:	2007

Maybe you're just like this all the time

Mar 20, 2007, 7:49pm headphone sex

I've been enjoying the country-punk of The Mules these last few weeks... and in particular the opening track of their debut album 'Save Your Face' (out next Monday). 'Polly-O' comes across like a spiky gypsified version of 'Feel Good Hit of the Summer' by Queens of the Stone Age. The Pixies gone country. Or something. A slightly disturbing tale of valium addiction, dead bodies and dogs,

• Field Music - Sit Tighter
• Ghosts - Stay The Night
• The Mules - Polly-O
• The Mules - We're Good People (Lights Odd People Remix)

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Artist:	Field Music
Title:	Sit Tighter
Link Text:	FIELD MUSIC - SIT TIGHTER
File Name:	Field_Music_-_Sit_Tighter.mp3
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Year:	2007

Artist:	Ghosts
Title:	Stay The Night
Link Text:	GHOSTS - STAY THE NIGHT
File Name:	Ghosts_-_Stay_The_Night.mp3
Bitrate:	222 kbps
Year:	2007

Artist:	The Mules
Title:	Polly-O
Link Text:	THE MULES - POLLY-O
File Name:	The_Mules_-_Polly-O.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2007

Artist:	The Mules
Title:	We're Good People (Lights Odd People Remix)
Link Text:	THE MULES - WE'RE GOOD PEOPLE (LIGHTS ODD PEOPLE REMIX)
File Name:	The_Mules_-_We're_Good_People_ (Lights_Odd_People_Mix).mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2007