Ghost Trains & Country Lanes: Studio, Stage & Sessions 1984-2015

Covering most of the available recordings of the Loft over the decades, not counting a separate cassette featuring demos from when they were still called the Living Room, Ghost Trains and Country Lanes is a remarkable document of the band’s engagingly fitful career. Their Creation-era tracks such as “Why Does the Rain” and the sweetly anthemic “Up The Hill and Down the Slope” are understandable 80s indie pop legends, but the 2005 sessions that produced the “Model Village”/”Rickety Bridge” single showed that spirit hadn’t wavered.