Travis – Going For Adds

After a five-year hiatus, Travis returns totally reinvigorated with their latest album, Where You Stand. For this album, Travis adopted a newly democratized songwriting system which resulted in a spring-breeze-fresh-sounding, distinctly major-key-centric record all inspired by blooming home lives and expanded personal horizons. Created between London, New York, Berlin, and a tiny island off the coast of Norway, Where You Stand captures the group’s excitement to be back together. “You stay away as long as it takes,” says bassist, Dougie Payne, of Travis’ well-judged fallow period, “so you feel that hunger and desire to get back to it same as you did at the start.” Track “Moving” captures this hopeful optimism with anthemic hooks and nu-wavey guitars & drums. The cover photo of a wide-open sky under a pastoral setting not only provides a visual to the album’s tone, but also to the hints of twang that shine throughout the 11-tracks.

RIYL : Wilco, Nada Surf, Radiohead, Blur

Recommended Tracks: Track #4 “Where You Stand”, Track #2 “Moving”, Track #6 “Another Guy”, Track #3 “Reminder“, Track #1 “Mother”, Track #9 “On My Wall”, Track #10 “Boxes”

Going for Adds 8/26 & 8/27

FCC CLEAN

Label: Red Telephone Box