THE GRAVEYARD TRAIN
''HOLLOW''
MAY 22 2012
42:59
1. Get The Gold 2:26
2. I'm Gone 3:19
3. The Sermon 3:38
4. Life is Elsewhere 3:22
5. The Priest 4:23
6. The Doomsday Cult Blues 4:33
7. You And Me 4:28
8. Hollow Wind 3:17
9. Mary Melody 4:54
10. One Foot On The Grave 2:00
11. The End Of The World 6:29
Australian chain gang Graveyard Train have explored dark and sometimes menacing territories on their new album Hollow. Twisting and pushing the boundaries of ‘alt-country’ to the extreme, Hollow is a macabre journey that seamlessly moves from swampy stomp to deranged psychadelia to folk ballad. As on previous occasions, the harrowing group vocals sing of darkness and woe, however the album marks a move into darker areas as the human condition is brought into focus. Death has never been more terrifying
ABOUT
By Official Site
A year ago Graveyard Train were spinning out of control. Over a few short years they’d morphed from a bunch of mates getting drunk and playing small dive bars to a band trying to maintain some semblance of the professionalism needed to play international festivals and headline major theatres.
Their 2012 album Hollow swiftly pulled 5 stars from The Age, filled a space in PBSFM’s Top 10 and Mess+Noise’s Top 20 Albums Of The Year. Whilst lead single ‘I’m Gone’ was the #1 most played song on Australian Community Radio.
After headlining the Forum and selling out consecutive Hi Fi shows in Melbourne, getting the coveted audience-approved Golden Boot at Meredith Music Festival, playing to inmates in a prison, seducing 25,000 punters on the main stage at West Coast Blues N Roots, touring the world and then having some redneck write a song about how they ruined Tamworth, in a lot of ways the band felt they accomplished more than they set out to do.
Then someone wrote a song.
The band reconvened to inhabit a studio space. More songs came quickly and they walked away from the desk with a new record and realisation that when they were writing, recording and putting on some of the finest live shows around, they were unstoppable.
That reinforcement is tattooed on record opener, lead single and title track, ‘Takes One To Know One’. It encaspsulates both a childish insult and a driving sound of classic Graveyard Train. Repeated listens of the entire LP reveals gems and oddities buried in a sublime, sometimes tortured marriage of country music, stoner rock, classic Graveyard gang vocals, haunting storytelling and the stellar musicianship that dyed-in-the-wool fans of the band have come to expect.
With their new record under their arm, and their own label, Black Hat Rackets, GT have paired up with revered European label Cargo Records to release the new record to a worldwide audience ahead of a national run of dates, dovetailing into a month-long European tour across July and August.
Graveyard Train – better than ever, shaking dust from the chains.
OFFICIAL SITE
''HOLLOW''
MAY 22 2012
42:59
1. Get The Gold 2:26
2. I'm Gone 3:19
3. The Sermon 3:38
4. Life is Elsewhere 3:22
5. The Priest 4:23
6. The Doomsday Cult Blues 4:33
7. You And Me 4:28
8. Hollow Wind 3:17
9. Mary Melody 4:54
10. One Foot On The Grave 2:00
11. The End Of The World 6:29
Australian chain gang Graveyard Train have explored dark and sometimes menacing territories on their new album Hollow. Twisting and pushing the boundaries of ‘alt-country’ to the extreme, Hollow is a macabre journey that seamlessly moves from swampy stomp to deranged psychadelia to folk ballad. As on previous occasions, the harrowing group vocals sing of darkness and woe, however the album marks a move into darker areas as the human condition is brought into focus. Death has never been more terrifying
ABOUT
By Official Site
A year ago Graveyard Train were spinning out of control. Over a few short years they’d morphed from a bunch of mates getting drunk and playing small dive bars to a band trying to maintain some semblance of the professionalism needed to play international festivals and headline major theatres.
Their 2012 album Hollow swiftly pulled 5 stars from The Age, filled a space in PBSFM’s Top 10 and Mess+Noise’s Top 20 Albums Of The Year. Whilst lead single ‘I’m Gone’ was the #1 most played song on Australian Community Radio.
After headlining the Forum and selling out consecutive Hi Fi shows in Melbourne, getting the coveted audience-approved Golden Boot at Meredith Music Festival, playing to inmates in a prison, seducing 25,000 punters on the main stage at West Coast Blues N Roots, touring the world and then having some redneck write a song about how they ruined Tamworth, in a lot of ways the band felt they accomplished more than they set out to do.
Then someone wrote a song.
The band reconvened to inhabit a studio space. More songs came quickly and they walked away from the desk with a new record and realisation that when they were writing, recording and putting on some of the finest live shows around, they were unstoppable.
That reinforcement is tattooed on record opener, lead single and title track, ‘Takes One To Know One’. It encaspsulates both a childish insult and a driving sound of classic Graveyard Train. Repeated listens of the entire LP reveals gems and oddities buried in a sublime, sometimes tortured marriage of country music, stoner rock, classic Graveyard gang vocals, haunting storytelling and the stellar musicianship that dyed-in-the-wool fans of the band have come to expect.
With their new record under their arm, and their own label, Black Hat Rackets, GT have paired up with revered European label Cargo Records to release the new record to a worldwide audience ahead of a national run of dates, dovetailing into a month-long European tour across July and August.
Graveyard Train – better than ever, shaking dust from the chains.
OFFICIAL SITE
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