Personnel: Carla Kihlstedt (vocals, whistling, charango, ukulele, violin, electric violin, harmonica, harmonium, loops, Theremin); Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, percussion); Joel Hamilton (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, piano, synthesizer, glockenspiel, electric bass, drums, snare drum, programming, loops, sound effects); Matthias Bossi (vocals, oud, ukulele, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harmonium, Wurlitzer organ, drums, finger cymbals, dumbek, loops, background vocals); David Thomas , Allen Willner, Jon Langford, Kathleen Brennan, Megan Reilly, Aaron Lazar, Carla Bozulich (vocals); Norman Westberg (electric guitar); Tony Maimone (baritone guitar, piano, double bass, electric bass, fretless bass); Zeena Parkins (electric harp); Trey Spruance (saz); Brian Wolf (tuba); John Davis (piano).

Audio Mixer: Joel Hamilton .

Photographer: Tom Sullens.

On TRAINEATER, the Book of Knots' sophomore effort and Anti-Records debut, the Brooklyn avant supergroup crafts a soundscape conceptually based on the decaying of the Rust Belt. Mining a sound somewhere between Tom Waits and Sonic Youth, the quartet layers metallic shards and plucked strings over bracing percussion clips and samples to create something akin to post-industrial Americana. Always interesting, and at times quite beautiful, TRAINEATER also includes cameos from indie stars such as Mike Watt and Jon Langford.

Uncut (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The accompanying soundscape is suitably post-industrial, littered with scraping metal and fractured, scratchy beats..."