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Travis - Ode To J Smith (Red Phone Box)
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Twelve years ago, a little-known band from Glasgow paid £600 to record their first single All I Wanna Do is Rock on their own label, which they called Red Telephone Box. After selling more than ten million albums since then, the wheel has in a sense come full circle for Travis as they have revived the label to release their first album since leaving Independiente earlier this year....full text |
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| To the "less is more" adage, add the idea that quicker is better—particularly in the case of Travis' sixth album. The British quartet wrote the exceptional "Ode to J Smith" in just five weeks and recorded it in two. Not surprisingly, its 11 songs bristle with an urgency that more closely resembles (but rocks harder than) Travis' 1997 debut "Good Feeling" than 2007's sumptuously crafted "The Boy With No Name," with a decidedly uptempo countenance and plenty of room for lead guitarist Andy Dunlop's riffs, solos and fills. The album's concept, about the last day in the life of the titular J Smith, is more impressionistic than narrative, with frontman Fran Healy wringing out a few philosophical nuggets atop the power chord-led rock groove of "Chinese Blues," the kinetic bounce of "Long Way Down," the trippy thump of "Get Up" and the Coldplay-style drama of "Quite Free." —Gary Graff...full text |
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| Yahoo |
| Poor old Andy Dunlop. Observing the diligent Travis guitarist over the past decade (particularly since pre-Coldplay elbow-in-the-bath-water album "The Man Who") adding dependable twinkles and sub-Teenage Fanclub niceties to Fran Healey's patchy, populist song craft, he seems to so desperately hanker for something more. This is verified at live shows the moment early-single "All I Wanna Do Is Rock" ratchets forth and in an instant he is Hendrix, he is Vicious, he is Townsend, teetering atop his amp, contorting and wrestling elastic, petulant fuzz from his axe. And then, in a blink, he'll be back on his mark playing "Sing"....full text |
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