Where You Stand
When Coldplay released its 2000 debut album, Parachutes, it was widely compared to fellow U.K. band Travis, who had already released two full-lengths, including 1999’s classic The Man Who. More than a decade later, it’s easy to forget that the two groups were once so similar: Coldplay quickly embraced widescreen…
The seventh Travis album picks up where you last left them - no matter where that was along the way.
Travis were championed by Oasis' Noel Gallagher in 1997, back when that might have meant something. These days that doesn't mean much and Travis doesn't either.
Clash reviews 'Where You Stand', the new album by Scottish indie-poppers Travis - "they’re currently producing some of the finest music of their career..."
Though Where You Stand, Travis’s first album in five years, doesn’t scale quite the same heights as their best work, there’s real beauty in it.
It seems unlikely it will return them to their million-selling commercial peak, but Travis' loyal fans will be very pleased with their new album, writes <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>
It may be a bit boring but the melodies are likeably predictable, warm and gentle, says Helen Brown.
Mega-strummy-indie tedium from the men who nice-ified rock. CD review by Thomas H Green