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Having recently announced their signing to [PIAS] France, acclaimed Lyon-based 4-piece Last Train
have today announced details of their new album, III, which is released on Friday 31st January
2025.
Having released ‘Home’, the first taster from the album last month, the band have today also
shared the latest track to be taken from the record, ‘The Plan’, a single which breathlessly collides
sheer rock power and sweet melodies.
Formed while still at school together in the 2010s, the last few years have seen Last Train not only
forge a committed and passionate fanbase around their music but also earn the approval of the
likes of Muse and Placebo who have both invited Last Train to join them on tour and like the two
U.K. rock giants, with III Last Train have created an album full of stunning contrasts, possessing a
series of dynamics that shift, twist and turn in ways that will engross in a raw and direct manner.
It is also a record of righteous anger, because it turns out when you are a band used to pouring
your hearts and soul into rock songs and then playing them live every night, when you skip that
kind of expression over a period of time thanks to lock-down, a lot of feeling builds up.
“We were pissed off!” smiles Peultier of the energy behind III. “I don’t know why, but that’s how it
felt to me.”
“We hadn’t toured, so we hadn’t played a show for a year-and-a-half, which is something that has
never happened with Last Train before because we deeply love playing shows,” reasons Scherrer
in agreement. “So we were frustrated and full of anger. We were ready for the fight when we
came to these songs.”
Written in a three-month-long burst at their Lyon base, songs for III understandably flowed
quickly, something reflected in the passion behind the album’s dynamics which range from
unconstrained, loud emotional bursts to quieter – sometimes enthralling, sometimes menacing –
sections, but all shot through with a burning intensity.
“It's an intense album but one that really creates something for the audience,” concludes
Scherrer. "I don’t think it is the kind of record where you’re just going to say ‘yeah, yeah, I like it’
but ‘that made me feel something!’ You will have a reaction to this music, which is what we
wanted.” III really is the charm.
