A Kind of Closure

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TRAM A Kind Of Closure (2002 UK 11-track CD album the third album from the London based duo sees Tram increase the volume of their previous recordings by adding string and brass sections. Their trademark brushed drums clean guitars and whispered vocals are still included but are given a more dynamic quality picture sleeve SETCD095)

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Slo-mo, downbeat miserablists Tram return with their third album, the suitably tear-stained A Kind of Closure. Critical acclaim and a secure record deal seem not to have eased their resolutely all-pervasive mood of melancholy. Singer Paul Anderson continues his fruitless dissection of relationships and disappointment, while enveloping the mournful themes in stripped-down, otherworldy gentle plucks of guitar and piano. The songs are not joyless however; the gorgeous, countrified pace of "Painful Education" belies Anderson's opening gambit of "So what is there to show/For all these battered years". The themes may be end-of-the-world bedsit gloom, but the songs are so beautifully structured and delicate that the misery ends up the kind made quite wondrous, by its life-affirming music. Opener "Three Years" is an impressive slice of dramatic, dark pop that might have "detected a joy he knew was a flaw" but the swooning, emotional pull of the song, suggests a man who can still see hope on the horizon. Low have been oft posited as Tram's spiritual comrades, but Tram perfect a particular, unwavering kind of melancholy that could only come from Britain. Tram wallow in their sadness, but do it beautifully. -Suzannah Brown

Number of Discs: 1

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