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I Like Trains are an alternative

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

/post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

band from Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. The group play brooding songs featuring sparse piano and guitar, baritone vocals, uplifting choral passages and reverberant orchestral crescendos. They draw their inspiration from historical failings and a pessimistic world view.

Their debut album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

, Elegies to Lessons Learnt
Elegies to Lessons Learnt
Elegies to Lessons Learnt is I Like Trains' first studio album, and was released on 1 October 2007.As with their earlier EP, Progress Reform, many of the songs cover historical events...

was released on Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels...

, and their debut EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

, "Progress Reform

Progress Reform

Progress Reform is an EP by the Leeds-based post-rock group I Like Trains. The titles of the songs employ the same capitalisation format as the band's name, capitalising all letters except for i's. The EP's title is a reference to the lyrics of "The Beeching Report", which are concerned with the...

", was released on Fierce Panda Records

Fierce Panda Records

Fierce Panda Records is a London-based independent record label, with its first release in February 1994. It also produced a small number of releases that year by now famous artists such as Ash, The Bluetones, Baby Bird and Supergrass...

in June 2006. The band ran a night at The Brudenell Social Club in Leeds called Signal Failure, putting on bands including Youthmovies

Youthmovies

Youthmovies were an English rock quintet, comprising Andrew Mears , Al English , Graeme Murray , Stephen Hammond and Sam Scott...

, Blood Red Shoes

Blood Red Shoes

Blood Red Shoes are an indie rock duo from Brighton, England. They have released two full-length albums, Box of Secrets and Fire Like This, plus a slew of early singles on limited 7" vinyl pressings.-Formation:...

, The Strange Death of Liberal England

The Strange Death of Liberal England (band)

The Strange Death of Liberal England also known as TSDOLE are five member band from Portsmouth, England. Their influences range from folk to indie rock to post rock with this diversity creating a large number of followers, including BBC Radio One DJs Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens.The...

, Josh T. Pearson

Josh T. Pearson

Josh T. Pearson is a musician from Texas. In 1996 he formed the short-lived but now critically acclaimed band Lift to Experience, who released one double album, 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, before splitting up soon after. Lift To Experience played live shows and became a favorite of the...

and The Early Years

The Early Years (band)

The Early Years are an English psychedelic, electronic, guitar-based rock band from Hackney, London consisting of members David Malkinson , Roger Mackin , Phil Raines and Brendan Kersey .- Biography :...

.

On 7 April 2007, I Like Trains featured on the early-hours music television programme The JD Set, which featured live performance clips and interviews. David Martin talked about how he wanted their music to have a "sense of location" and that this was lacking in music like "Godspeed

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band which originated from Montreal, Quebec in 1994...

and Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band with classicaland minimalist elements. The band is known for its ethereal sound, and frontman Jónsi Birgisson's falsetto vocals and use of bowed guitar. In January 2010, the band announced that they will be on hiatus. Since then, it has since been announced...

".

The band work on concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

s. The songs on Elegies to Lessons Learnt are based on tragic historical events and figures and the songs were created after thorough research and study. I Like Trains have had their music featured on Hollywood film trailers, adverts and television, including an episode of CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

.

Their second album, He Who Saw The Deep
He Who Saw The Deep
He Who Saw The Deep is the second album by Leeds band I Like Trains. It was released on 4th October 2010.Having left Beggars Banquet Records when it went bust in 2008, the group had no record label to distribute the album....

was released in 2010.

I Like Trains have supported bands including British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power are an indie rock band based in Brighton, England, although three of the band members originally come from Kendal in Cumbria. Critics have likened their sound to a variety of groups, from The Cure and Joy Division to the Pixies and Arcade Fire. The band are famed for their live...

, The Cooper Temple Clause

The Cooper Temple Clause

The Cooper Temple Clause were an English six-piece alternative rock band originating from Wokingham, Berkshire. Formed in 1998, the band quickly gained a following through their live concerts, and have produced three albums, the latest being Make This Your Own...

, The Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company...

and Editors

Editors

Editors are a British indie rock band based in Birmingham, who formed in 2002. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band consists of Tom Smith , Chris Urbanowicz , Russell Leetch and Ed Lay .Editors have so far released two platinum studio...

Members

Guy Bannister – guitar, keys and vocals
Alistair Bowis – bass guitar, synths and vocals
Simon Fogal – drums
David Martin – guitar and lead vocals

Albums/EPs

Progress Reform
Progress Reform
Progress Reform is an EP by the Leeds-based post-rock group I Like Trains. The titles of the songs employ the same capitalisation format as the band's name, capitalising all letters except for i's. The EP's title is a reference to the lyrics of "The Beeching Report", which are concerned with the...

(EP; 26 June 2006)
Elegies to Lessons Learnt
Elegies to Lessons Learnt
Elegies to Lessons Learnt is I Like Trains' first studio album, and was released on 1 October 2007.As with their earlier EP, Progress Reform, many of the songs cover historical events...

(album; 1 October 2007) UK Indie Chart #17
The Christmas Tree Ship (EP; 24 November 2008)
He Who Saw The Deep
He Who Saw The Deep
He Who Saw The Deep is the second album by Leeds band I Like Trains. It was released on 4th October 2010.Having left Beggars Banquet Records when it went bust in 2008, the group had no record label to distribute the album....

(album; 4 October 2010)
This Skin Full of Bones (EP; 22 November 2011)

Singles

"Stainless Steel" (Early 2005)
"Before the Curtains Close Pts 1 & 2" (4 July 2005)
"A Rook House For Bobby" (17 October 2005)
"Terra Nova" / "Fram" (29 May 2006) UK Chart #132
"Spencer Perceval" / "I Am Murdered" (26 March 2007) UK Chart #195
"The Deception" (10 September 2007) UK Chart #164, UK Indie Chart #9
"We Go Hunting" (21 April 2008)
"Sea of Regrets" (12 October 2009)

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