New Travis

Posted: September 11th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Articles About Music | Tags: , | 1 Comment »

New Travis what?  Is there a new video?  Or a new album? Or a new sound?

Yes.

That is right, I am bringing you a fairly new video for the single “Something Anything” off of the new album coming out later this month called Ode to J. Smith.   And it has a pretty different sound than anything I’ve heard from them in the past.  It has a much harder sound than what we’re used to from these guys.  The video is nothing to get excited about.  But just getting to hear a new Travis tune and knowing that an album will shortly follow is exciting enough in itself.

Travis – Something Anything (removed 2/13/09)

And here is a pseudo cover song of Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know.”  This is a fun little tune that they wrote for their appearance on the Mark and Lard show.

Travis – After Mark and Lard Go (removed 2/13/09)

One Comment on “New Travis”

  1. 1 The Linguist said at 2:25 pm on September 12th, 2008:

    My feeling is that they’re using the video to try and explain the new hard sound. I kinda like it. I also like the fact that he’s distressed after the solo, as if he doesn’t know whether people will like it or not.

    Nice use of existential angst in a non-overt, non-cloying way. The sound isn’t unique, but the fact that they’re well-grounded while doing that sound is nice to see.

    I think the video is more remarkable than the song, actually.