While
this is my first time hearing Distant Trains, I do really enjoy I Like You Go
Home. Because of the two different
names though, I have blurred the lines in my mind more than once and called
this I Like Trains, which is an existing artist, but yet I rarely think of it
as Distant Go Home, which is still in itself a kind of neat name.
Distant
Trains begins with a piano recital and applause before going into the wavy
sounds I expected from this more than the piano bit. There is a chopped up Knight Rider feel to
this, as it is sort of beeping and then begins looping. Psychedelic guitar riffs ala Hendrix or
Clapton make their way onto the scene next, before we bring out that lone sad
horn.
There
is an audio clip that interrupts the movement, though in some ways I feel more
like I was listening to the radio and a commercial came on, which it very well
could have been. This only makes me
wonder why artists who place audio clips in their music don’t do so on a
commercial level. Let’s say some
corporation sends you some money and all of a sudden that audio clip suddenly
becomes their jingle. (I can’t think of
any jingles off hand to make my point, so use your imagination)
I
Like You Go Home is on the other side of this and I’ve come to terms with the
fact that ILYGH is just never going to make any piece of music that I don’t
like. This particular one begins with some singing
noise before turning into that demon we know and love. There is that static and distorted
screaming otherwise as well, and just overall this part reminds me of a
drive-thru speaker because of the crackling static.
Realistically,
I shouldn’t have to be telling you to go buy this cassette because you should
already have it based on the I Like You Go Home factor, but if you end up
buying this for that reason then know that you won’t be disappointed with the
Distorted Trains side and will quite possibly end up going back for more.
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