12 Memories - Travis
  • Band Name: Travis
  • Record Label: Sony
  • Release Date: Oct 14, 2003
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

  • Summary: The fourth album from the Glaswegian rock band is their darkest to date.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 22
  2. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Buttressing these sentiments (and singer Fran Healy's dewy voice) is just the type of production Travis needed: jarring guitar solos, zigzagging harmonies, snow-crunching percussion.
  2. Weighted with tunes that approach middle age with tension and caution.
  3. It's a bloody nice record, which may be damning them with faint praise but it's an area they've stalked out for themselves immensely likably.
  4. It's a compelling, if far from satisfying, album: the awkward work of a man confronting mortality, global meltdown and fractionally diminished success, but still terrified of appearing pretentious, still stuck with singalong tunes in his head.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. spencer
    10
    By far the best Travis cd and better than anything Radiohead has ever done. It's not poppy and overly melodramatic as some of their others. The sound of a band progressing. Expand
  2. MarkL.
    8
    I like this Album! Its got very pretty melodic songs with affecting lyrics. Its enjoyable. Dont like the last track tho or that slow one in the middle, but the rest are all boffo. Expand
  3. matts
    7
    Good not great. Clearly some filler involved. Overall, an enjoyable album with some really great songs. This next comment is for SPENCER who claimed that "12 Memories" is ...."better than anything Radiohead has ever done." How does one even respond to such a grossly misguided statment? Maybe Thom Yorke didn't sign your tour t-shirt backstage or your ex beau just loved em. Not only is Radiohead heads and shoulders above the rest...."O.K. Computer" is probably the best album ever made. Expand
  4. KR
    2
    You may call 2 harsh, but not once you've heard this album. I could feel my insides cringing and only listened to the first two songs all the way through. As a Travis fan I'm incredibly diappointed; the CD is excruciatingly boring. Whereas I really enjoyed 'The Invisible Band', the music on their latest album could induce chronic stomach cramps, and even that is more fun than listening that tripe. Travis - What have you done?! Expand

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