iLiKETRAiNS are a little bit different. There’s the name to start with. What with the band capitalizing like a deranged railway enthusiast sending a text.

Then there’s the subject matter of their songs. Their first release for Beggars, who they signed to last year, was the single ‘Spencer Perceval’. Which found mournful lead vocalist David Martin emoting over the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.

‘Spencer Perceval’ reappears on this, their debut album. Despite clocking it at nine and a half minutes, Radio 1 deigned to play it in full. Twice.

Big fans of labelmates, Devastations, they both appear to have got themselves marooned in Bunyan’s Slough of Despond, so much so that even an iLiKETRAiNS fan felt sufficiently moved to complain that there was “only so much of their sparse gloom” they could take. Yet they recall other bands too, with many critics labelling them Britain’s answer to post-rock acts like Godspeed You Black Emperor and Sigur Rós. And on ‘We Go Hunting’, about the Salem Witch Trials you surely must have guessed, they appear to have unearthed a lost track from Suede’s eponymously-titled masterpiece.

(4¾/5)