Travis – L.A. Times (2024) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Travis – L.A. Times (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:37 minutes | 643 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

Glasgow’s multiple BRIT and Ivor Novello-winning songwriting giants Travis return with the announcement of L.A. Times, their tenth studio album, available from 12th July 2024 via BMG. Produced by Tony Hoffer (Air, Beck, Phoenix), L.A. Times was written by Fran Healy in his studio on the edge of Skid Row, Los Angeles, the city he has called home for the last decade. He describes L.A. Times as Travis’ “most personal album since The Man Who”.Fran Healy calls L.A. Times, the tenth studio album from Travis, the group’s “most personal album since The Man Who,” the 1999 record that found the Scottish guitar band establishing the parameters of their thoughtful indie rock. Healy’s comparison hinges upon emotion, not music. Travis aren’t attempting to revive the hunger and ambition that fueled them as young men, they’re testing the creative boundaries of middle age as they take stock of the state of a world in tumult. Healy wrote the songs for L.A. Times at the studio he has on the outskirts of Los Angeles’ Skid Row, then the band turned to producer Tony Hoffer — a frequent collaborator with one of L.A.’s bards, Beck — to polish the tunes into an album that embraces the unknown and finds comfort in the familiar. Hoffer helps steer Travis toward production that feels modern, expanding the band’s aural palette without abandoning their identity. When things get stripped back to not much more than a guitar and voice — as it is on “Live It All Again” — the group’s art-rock lineage comes into focus, just like how the jaunty bounce of “Gaslight” suggests buried ties to Britpop. The remarkable thing about L.A. Times, though, is that the album as a whole feels quintessentially American, and Southern Californian at that: it’s a vibrant and lively intersection of styles and ideas, all heard through the prism of an expatriate who remains enamored and bewildered by his new home. Dig beneath the surface, and the lyrics make plain Healy’s claim of the album being a personal record, but the trick that Travis pull off with L.A. Times is that it is engaging on the surface thanks to colorful melodies and shifting arrangements — the very things that beg for subsequent listens, the ones where themes reveal themselves.

– Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:

1-1. Travis – Bus (03:23)
1-2. Travis – Raze the Bar (03:05)
1-3. Travis – Live It All Again (03:23)
1-4. Travis – Gaslight (03:23)
1-5. Travis – Alive (02:48)
1-6. Travis – Home (03:05)
1-7. Travis – I Hope That You Spontaneously Combust (02:18)
1-8. Travis – Naked In New York City (04:23)
1-9. Travis – The River (02:16)
1-10. Travis – L.A. Times (04:08)
1-11. Travis – Bus (Stripped) (03:18)
1-12. Travis – Raze the Bar (Stripped) (03:06)
1-13. Travis – Gaslight (Stripped) (03:32)
1-14. Travis – Naked In New York City (Stripped) (04:21)
1-15. Travis – The River (Stripped) (01:42)
1-16. Travis – L.A. Times (Stripped) (04:18)

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