I Like Trains announce first studio LP in eight years with lead single "The Truth"

"The Truth" is the group's first new single since their 2016 A Divorce Before Marriage soundtrack.

Vocalist David Martin says of their comeback track, "This was one of the final tracks to come together for the album. It came from a list I was keeping over a number of months. I would follow the news and social media and add a line or two a day, so that it ended up plotting the news cycle over that period. The amount of information we’re fed on a daily basis is enormous. Everyone is so keen to "break" the news as quickly as possible, that it becomes impossible to comprehend it, and draw a meaningful narrative through it. How does this event connect to that one? Who gains what because this happened? Who is missing out? It’s exhausting."

KOMPROMAT will be I Like Trains' first studio album since 2012's The Shallows. Martin says of their album-making process, "An I Like Trains record doesn’t really start to take shape until there’s a theme. That point came following Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks in 2013."

He adds, "We didn’t set out to write a record about current affairs, but the path we set out on converged drastically with that daily discourse. The album inadvertently became about populist politics across the world. Brexit, Trump, Cambridge Analytica and covert Russian influence ended up at the centre of it all."

Tracklist:

1. A Steady Hand
2. Desire Is A Mess
3. Dig In
4. PRISM
5. Patience Is A Virtue
6. Man of Conviction
7. New Geography
8. The Truth
9. Eyes to the Left (feat. Anika)