LAST TRAIN Kantine am Berghain, Berlin am 10.04.25

After naming their first two albums, Weathering and The Big Picture respectively, the simplicity of the title for Last Train’s third record is striking.

The directness of III ( trois or three) is more than a hint of the key, primal force behind the album’s creation: raw anger. Yet this fury is not the usual release of life pressures – although they no doubt played a part – but instead is the result of a unique creative energy the Alsace natives needed to vent from their systems. Yet this cathartic outpouring has not been allowed to surge unmitigated into their music as III is the result of a meticulous and crafted creative journey that saw them make the album in a crumbling, unheated chateau in the midst of winter.