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![]() The Rails (from the album Cancel the Sun available on Psychonaut Sound/Thirty Tigers) Forming in 2013, The Rails brought more than words and music to the stage, the pair offering musical lineage with Kami Thompson, daughter of Richard and Linda Thomspon alongside James Walbourne, guitarist for The Pogues and Pretenders. The music bed is made of a rock’n’roll guts and glory while the combined vocals of The Rails meet in an English harmony and tones in “Call Me When It All Goes Wrong” while the Folk Rock of “Waiting on Something” is carved with sharp edges as Cancel the Sun deals heavy-handed chord distortion on a percussive groove for “The Inheritance” and hears a heartbeat dying away in the fading memories in “Something Is Slipping My Mind”. While American Roots defines a physical territory the sound of the music has no borders, The Rails the perfect example of taking sounds that grew up on American soil, adding an English texture to the playback. The Kentish Town (North London) couple freely fall into to the all-inclusive arms of Americana’s hybrid friendly format. Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, The Cranberries, Blur). Cancel the Sun revolves its rhythm wheel slowly for the title track and beats the drum steady in a reverential march for “The Dictator” as The Rails rally around a political platform that shows shuffling feet an exit from this mortal coil with “Save the Planet”. Listen and buy the music of The Rails from AMAZON http://therailsofficial.com/
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