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Travels With Myself And Another
EMAILPRINTby Future Of The Left
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 15 votes
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Album Info
Label: 4AD
Release Date: 23 June 2009
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie, Punk
Summary
This is the second album for the Welsh rock band.
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Making good on the only slightly veiled threats of Curses, the new Travels With Myself And Another finds Falkous’ barbed stories--of fruitless sex, godless existence, and other pointless-yet-unavoidable bullshit--stretched wire-taut, with nary a moment of wasted energy.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
Travels... is a 33 minute monster without a slither of excess fat, and the best thing Andy Falkous has ever put his name to.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
Travels With Myself and Another is the best thing this crew has ever made. It’s got all you could ask for: hooks, riffs, volume, wordplay, razor-sharp absurdity, and Jack Egglestone’s incomparable power drumming.
Read Full Review >No Ripcord
By no means a feel-good record, Travels With Myself and Another is rich with enough black humor, sharp perspectives and tight muscular music to make it one of the best rock albums of the year.
Read Full Review >Uncut
A band that couldn't ddcide if they preferred the caustic post-grunge of The Jesus Lizard or the absurdist, singalong witticisms of Half Man Half Biscuit, so choose to do both. Happily, the band have the muscular riffs and eloquence to pull off both. [Jul 2009, p.88]
All Music Guide
Travels with Myself and Another distinguishes Future of the Left from Mclusky without completely severing ties, and proves they're a band that can keep post-hardcore exciting with righteous anger and merciless wit.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
Yet despite the occasionally black subject matter this is a fine and powerful album for lovers of red meat rock, served rare.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express (NME)
As ’80s revivalism hits its self-fellating peak, it’s a pleasure to hear an album that knows escapism isn’t dressing up like a fucking unicorn--it’s shutting your eyes and screaming until your throat burns.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
In addition finding new ways to snarl in their music, the lyrics go beyond mere cleverness into sharp, thoughtful introspection, making Travels a document of a creatively restless band out to prove something to themselves, and not just the fans they’ve picked up along the way.
Read Full Review >Slant Magazine
Travels with Myself and Another expands the complexity, adding guitar solos and a more careful sense of composition to the pounding fray.
Read Full Review >Spin
These Brits--featuring two members of Mclusky, a great band that died in 2005--spit fiery, trebly guitarrock venom with such lusty glee that following them to hell actually sounds inviting.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
With the razor-sharp, endlessly listenable, and wildly rocking Travels with Myself and Another, Future of the Left have put their past to rest.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
No single frontman in indie quite possesses Falkous’s unique blend of obnoxious charisma, and that fact alone makes Travels a sometimes engaging listen, but he’s still made an album that steers dangerously close to emulating the bros he’s spent his entire career railing against.
Read Full Review >The Phoenix
Travels with Myself and Another doesn't quite live up to the band's first studio album, 2007's "Curses," but it reaches the same boorishly absurd heights on the spastic 'Drink Nike' and on 'Stand by Your Manatee,' a catchy freakout about the "shame" of using plastic silverware.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Trying to find a sense of humour amidst the walloping woe is exhausting. [Aug 2009, p.107]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
dan c gave it a10:
Brilliant, no other band is a thrilling and punishing as this FOTL. full of hits. no filler. great lyrics, great melodies, great titles all crammed into 33 of the most addictive minutes BUY IT NOW you will not be disappointed.
M S gave it a9:
The first track takes me straight back to RATM and the mid-90s. It gets even better from there. Sometimes a bit bleak lyrically but hey we can't all be of a cheerful disposition.
oily rag gave it a10:
I have no idea why this band aren't huge. An absolute classic of an album.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
This is an incredible album, better than any other this year and better hardcore punk of the decade. Equals the best of Fugazi, RATM, Primus and Gang of Four.
Ryan S gave it a10:
This album ripped out my mind then showed it to me. I will travel with Travels always.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
Meatier than a pig eating steaks.
