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The Boy With No Name

Travis

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Item Details

Genre
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Rock & Pop
Catalogue Number
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EICP755
Number of Discs
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1
Label
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Epic Sony
Release Country
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Japan
Format
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CD
Other
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2BonusTracks

Product Description

Three years on from their last outing '12 Memories', there is a palpable excitement within the Travis camp and a genuine enthusiasm for a return to the road. Having long been regarded as the trailblazers for the emotionally engaging pop anthem, they can truly claim, on their fifth album 'The Boy With No Name’, to have re-discovered what made us love them in the first place.

From the warm ambience of 'Closer' to the menacing harmony of 'Big Chair', the songs here carry a direct lineage from 'The Man Who' through to their present day contemporaries. Another cryptic album title (Healy and wife Nora couldn’t settle on a name for their son Clay for some weeks and this was how he was known), 'The Boy With No Name' shimmers with infectious melodies and timeless choruses wrapped around bittersweet songs of deep love and regret and a whole lot more besides.

Album highlights include aforementioned 'Big Chair' with its restless bass line, whilst 'Selfish Jean' delivers Motown bass and expansive Phil Spector production. An Ode to Fran’s then unborn son Clay, 'My Eyes' is classic Travis; a joyful chorus journeyed to via an equally catchy prelude of "Welcome in, welcome in…". 'Battleships', meanwhile, boasts a painfully honest lyric about relationship strife when two people who love each other are simply not seeing eye to eye.

Whilst Travis took the decision to record the album themselves they turned to long time collaborator Nigel Godrich to look after additional production on several of the tracks.

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Bonus Track for Japan

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穏やかに優しく、心の柔らかいところにすー...

投稿日：2010/06/06 (日)

穏やかに優しく、心の柔らかいところにすーっと染み入っていく声とメロディー。幸せな気持ちでいっぱいになります。③は至福の名曲。肩の力が抜けたようなラスト②曲、その締め方に気持ちほっこり。

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トラヴィス・サウンドここに健在。 そ...

投稿日：2009/05/15 (金)

トラヴィス・サウンドここに健在。 そんなアルバム。 1stで聴かせたロックでポップでキャッチャーな音。 そして、2nd,3rdで聴かせた哀愁漂う音。 さらに、4thで聴かせたうねるようなダーク感とヘヴィな音。 これらの過程の経験から作り出された最高に優しくて悲しくて楽しくて、 そして走り抜けるような、トラヴィス至上最高傑作だと思う。

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柔らかいですね。 ウォーターベッドか浅田...

投稿日：2009/02/01 (日)

柔らかいですね。 ウォーターベッドか浅田真央と張るくらい柔らかい音楽ですなー

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