The Leaving Trains
Transportational D. Vices (SST) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) 1/2
The songs of singer-guitarist Falling James are more like epigrams: 15 terse blasts of energy that clock in at barely 32 minutes. They confirm that Leaving Trains is one of America`s great undiscovered bands. Two years ago, Trains shot itself in the foot by releasing an album with an obscene title that got it blackballed in record stores and on radio. ”Transportational D. Vices” tones down the controversy and cranks up the tunes, crossing the bluesy guitars of the late-`60s Stones with the liberating tempos of hard-core. James` gutsy voice invests even everyday topics-cats, bars, walking to school-with extraordinary power.
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