The West Coast quartet Wire Train came of age in the early '80s, blending atmospheric psychedelic production with jangling new wave songcraft on their 1983 debut, In a Chamber. It was the start of a career that saw the band go through lineup changes, label scuffles, and a shifting musical approach that went from sophisticated pop on 1985's Between Two Words to folky classic rock on a self-titled 1990 album to danceable alternative rock on 1992's No Soul No Strain.
When the band got together in early 1983, San Francisco State University students Kevin Hunter and Kurt Herr d...