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- Summary: The sixth album for the Scottish rock band was produced by Emery Dobyns.
- Record Label: Red Telephone Box
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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| I'm singing a song to myself I'm singing a song to myself Pictures in your mind Out of focus and unkind Picture me I picture you Outside the sun is... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 10 out of 17
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Mixed: 7 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Apparently the band's sixth studio album is their first to be written from electric guitar since their debut Good Feeling, and this shows strongly in the end result.
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This is the grittiest album the band has yet put out.
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Consider it, then, an ode to what listeners liked about Travis in the first place.
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Under The RadarThese punchy guitars help Ode To J Smith avoid falling into the diluted space that Travis has been increasingly slipping into with each consecutive album. [Winter 2008]
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Where that Travis pointed a way out of Britpop, this one seeks the comfort of how guitar bands sounded before then, the bristling energy recalling early REM, the Chills and even occasionally Nirvana.
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Q MagazineIn stepping out of their comfort zone and trading in their previous identity, it seems Travis haven't yet decided who or what they now want to be. [Oct 2008, p.144]
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Ode To J. Smith is the sound of a band too boxed-in to do the hooky melancholy it used to do so well, but too neutered to really rock out.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Oct 25, 2018This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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