Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor, on each horn, Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight, Chariots, or elephants indorsed with towers Of archers; nor of labouring
pioners A multitude, with spades and axes armed, To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill, Or where plain was raise hill, or overlay With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke: Mules after these, camels and dromedaries, And waggons fraught with utensils of war.
The Two Trains of the title are Minor and
Pioner, which played a central role in the development of the capital city Reykjavik a century ago and are the only two ever to travel within the country, and the album blends Iceland's choral traditions into a sound drawing on the electronica of GusGus.