It had to be a train. The name of Victor Wainwright’s new band – and the sleeve image of their debut album – is also the most fitting of metaphors. In music folklore, the train might have associations with the freight-hopping bluesmen of yore, but with this restless boogie-woogie innovator stoking the furnace, this latest project is a charging locomotive – surging forward, crashing through boundaries of genre, sweeping up fresh sounds and clattering headlong past the doubters. As the man himself hollers in the ivory-pounding title track: “If you wanna boogie get aboard this train/Get yourself a ticket or get out of the way…”

TRACKLIST

SIDE A
Healing 00:05:01
Wiltshire Grave 00:04:30
Train 00:03:35
Dull Your Shine 00:05:35
Money 00:04:21

SIDE B
Thank You Lucille 00:05:10
Boogie Depression 00:03:33
Everything I Need 00:05:09
I'll Start Tomorrow 00:04:21
That's Love To Me 00:08:37