Great question mate, not perhaps easy to articulate but I’ll try. At the start it was certainly how the lyrics of heartland spoke to a younger, angrier, me. It’s definitely the track of its time IMHO. Infected was my first album of theirs and there was something I enjoyed in the contradiction of the anger in the lyrics but how they were more softly delivered, the energy coming from the music which was easy to get lost in - some of it was quite unlike anything else I’d heard. It lacked flow but that didn’t matter, if heartland was the bait, slow train to dawn was the hook. The only other album that has had that same impact on me was Embrace’s Out of Nothing although that had much more structure and flow.