![]() If this band does in fact have a real live frontman, all it would need is a Super-8 camera, some scratchy film stock and lots of colored lights to make itself right at home on MTV.Īnd maybe you'll see it yet, because even if Buddha's dead, HK is still kicking out product. It bummed me out, because Buddha, which seems to comprise various people at various times, but is anchored by farrago cofounder HK, makes a mellow, wavering dream pop spiked with rumbling, distorted guitar chords and vocals best described as calming. The very first time I heard of Buddha, the music was accompanied by the news that the band was no more, kaput, maybe reorganizing, probably gone for good. Train in Vain plays Friday, December 23 at Emo's. When he does, though, the results are promising. ![]() Vocals seem to operate in one mode - raspy overdrive - and it's not until the eighth of nine cuts, "My Light," that singing boy relaxes a bit and lets the song find some balance. One complaint though: two or three songs in, I started to wish that the vocalist (band members are listed, but not identified by role) would stop singing so damned hard and let the riffs carry the song every now and then. T'ain't nothin' happening here you haven't heard before, but since Candlebox now passes as new music, I suppose no one's really looking for anything new, and of its type, Train in Vain is pretty pleasant. It's a sound with some similarities to Washington's Screaming Trees, but not so much that you'd call it a copycat duplicate - just think of the Trees as a reference point. Train in Vain's a Beaumont-based outfit with the standard guitars-bass-drums rock lineup, and the band plays a melodic sort of hard rock spiced with feedbacking guitars, power chords and the occasional harmony vocal.
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