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If you like your music slow, low and dark and with alternative typography then we might have just the thing for you. iLiKETRAiNS (I do, but that's not the point here) are a band from the UK that depressed us (in the good way) with their album 'Progress/Reform' in 2005.

They sound like a choir of doomed miners in a slowly collapsing mine. With epic guitar walls and a Nick Cave like voice singing pitch-black lyrics about historic tragedies. Tales about tragic chess-players ('A Rook House for Bobby'), doomed forgotten explorers ('Terra Nova') and selfish railway reorganizers ('The Beeching Report'). But as much as this might sound like a gimmick (they even wear British Rail-uniforms) the music is solid and lasts.

Their new album 'Elegies to Lessons Learnt' continues along the same line but features smaller personal tragedies instead of grander ones. I just can't get enough of tragedies, unless their my own (or Britneys, I'm sooo done with her).

Some tragedies for you

Not even that: iLiKETRAiNS - No Military Parade (mp3)

iLiKETRAiNS – A Rook House For Bobby (mp3)

And from their new album: iLiKETRAiNS – The Deception (mp3)