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Aug 23, 2013Where You Stand reflects a band at peace, but it’s peace achieved through having successfully endured its share of bumps in the road.
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Aug 22, 2013Not quite dull enough to be entirely forgettable, Where You Stand plays it safe with middle-of-the-road everything.
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Aug 21, 2013Interestingly enough, Where You Stand may be the first Travis record that snugs comfortably into an adult contemporary format.
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Q MagazineAug 20, 2013Where You Stand finds the quartet catching up with themselves and displaying real depth and maturity. [Sep 2013, p.108]
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Aug 20, 2013In the end, Where You Stand is both a compelling reintroduction to those who grew up (but may have lost touch) with Travis and comfort food for longtime fans.
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Aug 20, 2013So while the various Easter eggs that Michael Ilbert and Travis apply to their sound are not necessarily new things to the pop world at large, they are new to Travis.
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Aug 19, 2013The small print is that Travis are still doing what Travis have always done.
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Aug 19, 2013Where You Stand picks up where you last left them--no matter where that was along the way.
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Aug 19, 2013This stretch of songs is the liveliest collection Travis has cut since the '90s, and it's heartening to hear them reconnect with some of the wilder aspects that informed their earliest records.
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Aug 19, 2013Where You Stand is a welcome, beautifully crafted and timeless return.
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Aug 16, 2013On the whole, it’s business as usual; a collection of brilliantly composed melodies that just lack the gravitas to lift them higher.
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Aug 16, 2013It's nice. A bit boring. The melodies are likeably predictable, warm and gentle.
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Aug 15, 2013While nothing sounds destined for the ubiquity that once allowed them to stage a famous Top of the Pops food fight for 2001's Sing, the fanbase will be overjoyed to have them back.
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Aug 15, 2013"Moving" apes the shameless anthemic yearning of Coldplay, and "A Different Room" has the windy bluster of U2. But it's the tiredness of the songwriting that cripples Where You Stand.
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MojoAug 14, 2013Not everything is quite so Travis by-the-numbers--and with mixed results. [Sep 2013, p.88]
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UncutAug 14, 2013Nowadays they're of more select appeal, and Where You Stand suggests they're actually quite comfortable with that. [Sep 2013, p.95]
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Aug 14, 2013New fans will not be won, but the initiated will be delighted.
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Aug 14, 2013The worst thing you can say about anything on this record is that they’re solidly crafted, faultless songs.
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Aug 14, 2013Though Where You Stand, their first album in five years, doesn't scale quite the same heights [as 1999's The Man Who]", there's real beauty in it too.
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