Wire Train - Wire Train

Wire Train's fourth album, their first after leaving 415 records, doesn't have anything as immediately grabbing as "Chamber of Hellos" or "Skills of Summer," but it's both a much better album than its dismissive reviews at the time suggested and a tremendous improvement over 1987's limp, overproduced Ten Women. David Tickle's production is very simple, emphasizing the guitar interplay of Kevin Hunter and Jeffrey Trott, with subtle and effective bits of mandolin, fiddle, and pedal steel coloring songs like the lovely, folky "She" and the plaintive Neil Young (circa Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere) homage "If You See Her Go." Hunter's songwriting has regained its melodicism, even if the lyrics tend towards obtuseness (that is, even more than before). Read More