Review

 

iLiKETRAiNS: We Go Hunting


Type:
Single

Label: Beggars Banquet
Date Released:
21/04/08

 

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Luke Slater


Annoyingly titled post-rockers from Leeds in song about historical event shocker. Or not. iLiKETRAiNS’ music thankfully does not suffer despite their oddly styled name (just which part do you emphasise?!) or unusual lyrical subject matter. With vocals that are so broadly and profoundly delivered, songs about anything other than The Great Fire of London and the assassination of Spencer Perceval would seem, well, a little bit insincere.

We Go Hunting may only be 3:25 long, but it needs to be longer. Full of the characteristic cathedral like ambience which so marks iLiKETRAiNS sound, this track moves from a sorrowful opening to a harrowing chorus and is laced with talk of demons; which is unsurprising for a track about the Salem Witch Trials.

Guy Bannister’s vocal style does verge on the outrageous at times, but his dark tones are perfect for iLiKETRAiNS’ sinister and gloomy choruses.

The chorus itself falls into a black-hole of misery, where the lyrics “If the demons divide, the demons will conquer/if you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile” are sung so mournfully it’s scary.

We Go Hunting is simply begging to be extended with an extra verse or two, another interlude, an interminably long outro perhaps, but sadly none of these happen and it fades out at 3:25, much to my disappointment. That said, if you buy only one Salem Witch Trial themed single this year, this should be it

 

 

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