• Band Name: Travis
  • Record Label: Sony
  • Release Date: May 8, 2007
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 49 Ratings

  • Summary: The fifth studio album for the Scottish four-piece includes production work from Nigel Godrich and Brian Eno.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 20
  2. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. 92
    The Boy With No Name instantly gets Travis back to the business of being Travis. [#25, p.102]
  2. Travis has taken the last four years to square their sunnier sound with their darker one. The Boy With No Name pulls this off without seeming overly planned or calculated. [#17, p.87]
  3. 60
    [Their] first [album] to sound authentically beaten up. [Jun 2007, p.101]
  4. 'The Boy With No Name' is everything you'd expect from a new Travis album and less.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 34
  2. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. MarcelC
    10
    This is a gem of an album,in my opinion their most consistent to date...getting a hammering from the critics which is unjustified...great comeback and receiving high rotation from this listener. Expand
  2. AhsanM
    10
    I love Travis's music and they have done a great job with this album. I am throughly dissappointed with the music critics though - they are complete out of syn with what people what to hear. Everyone who has listened to it - feels the same way - essentially its a great album, I highly recommend it. Expand
  3. KevinG
    8
    A very good return to form from Travis. This is a band that, like CAKE, is much better when they keep to their basic formula. I would say that this album is on par with The Invisible Band, if not better. Some of the lyrics are very bad (not EVERYTHING needs to rhyme, Fran!), and New Amsterdam is possibly the worst Travis song ever, but otherwise very sweet, catchy, and it shows once again why Travis influenced so many other UK bands. Expand
  4. AmurabiM.
    5
    This is just what we expect from Travis: supermarket music. The kind of boring, sweet, melodious and sometimes desperating songs of love and alienation. No more and no less. Collapse

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