Travis - The Invisible Band
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Free Music Review: I love this album
Hit: 5 Stars
I simply love this album. I've been a Travis fan for a while and though my musical taste changes from day to day, this is an album I have never gotten tired of. I enjoy it start to finish every time I put it on.Free Music Review: A pretty solid effort by Travis - it's not a great album, but you'll probably like it if you're a genre fan
Hit: 4 Stars
I would argue that "The Invisible Band" is Travis' best album, though it's not "great" per se. Every song here is fun and catchy, even if the singer is a little questionable and the lyrics are usually not that interesting (they can be at times, however). The songs are usually pretty energetic and feature some lesser-used instruments (like the banjo on the first track), but sometimes they slow down a bit like on "Dear Diary". The best song here is easily "Side" which has "hit" written all over it. This is essentially the song that got me into this album. The instrumentation is pretty good, although it's not necessarily new. The singer's reminiscent of My Morning Jacker's Jim James at times. It's slightly a guilty pleasure, but not by a great measure. Overall, if you like pop rock then chances are you'll like this CD. Recommended!
Highlights include:
the entire album!
Free Music Review: the invisible everything
Hit: 5 Stars
This album has exactly what you are looking for: addictive melodies, great voice and inspired songwriting. Travis has a lot of soul. With recent interest in bands like Coldplay, Keane and Snow Patrol, (all of whom I think are wonderful), one cannot but feel that Travis implements the best of all worlds into their tableau. Free Music Review: A tremendous sophomore effort
Hit: 4 Stars
While not dissimilar to other excellent acts such as Coldplay, Keane, and Pete Yorn, Travis have distinguished themselves as a band with their own unique style and sound. This, their 2nd album, is the best of their music: melodic throughout, with catchy tunes, solid lyrics, and tremendous guitar work that captures the listener from the first chords of 'Sing' to the fade-out from 'The Humpty Dumpty Love Song'.
If you buy an album once you know three or four or more of its songs are excellent, then I confidently recommend The Invisible Band to you.
Rating each song individually for one's ipod:
1. Sing, Side, The Cage, Afterglow and the Humpty Dumpty Love Song are each worthy of four to five stars
2. Pipe Dreams, Flowers in the Window, Safe, Follow the Light, and Indefinitely are three to four star songs
3. The balance are two to three stars each. The only poor effort is probably "Last Train", which is too plodding relative to its counterparts
The Invisible Band is basically a healthy mix of folksy, hopeful songs mixed with just the right amount of melancholy. Nowhere is this better reflected than in 'The Humpty Dumpty Love Song', which defines this mix perfectly. While this is the best of the album, the rest is well worth listening to repeatedly. Highly recommended.
Free Music Review: Travis, sensational prodigy band
Hit: 5 Stars
Travis is my favorite band. I love them even more than the shins and keane and weezer. I know all the words to all the songs and have all the albums, so I think i can call myself a travis expert. When I was looking at the reviews for this album, I was shocked to see the numerous four star reviews. Four stars?!?!? that's it? With all due respect, I believe this album deserve more than five stars!
The Invisible Band should probably be just called THE MAN WHO, PART TWO, because it really does pick up right where that album left off. For people who like to see bands evolve, they will of course be disappointed. But for those of us who craved more MAN WHO like material, this CD is brilliant. But I would like to take the time to clean a few things up, which have been overlooked.
I think some of the more obvious singles have eclisped the other songs, which are all polished works of art. SING is a great song, and the banjo is a great touch. But everyone knows about that song, so what about DEAR DIARY? DEAR DIARY is personally, my favorite song on the album. I'm usually not much of a slow song kind of person, but this song is simply amazing. The lyrics are very Travis-like, and sad, and fit right in on the album, and I love how the chorus is so melodious. They didn't even need to say the words and you could understand them, thats the kind of emotion on this piece. SIDE is of course a classic, portraying the frustration of 'the grass is always greener on the other side' kind of attitude. But the clever lyrics fit along the music so well, this song is a masterpiece. PIPE DREAMS: many people mentioned this song as one of their favorites. Personally, I think it is the weakest song on the album. At the beginning, it sounds really awesome and you are drawn in by the catchy melody. But i think after a while, it gets kind of repetitve. FLOWERS IN THE WINDOW is another general favorite. Everyone likes this song, but I don't think it compares to songs like DEAR DIARY. It does show the happier side of Travis, which makes it more interesting. THE CAGE is a song that most people don't like. I confess I didn't like it either, until one day I found myself humming the songs catchy tune. On first listen, it seems like it kind of sucks. But once you get to the chorus, you'll love it. SAFE is one of the strongest songs on the album. The song itself is great, but I challenge people to listen for the harmonic guitar in the background during the chorus. This song is really good. FOLLOW THE LIGHT is definantly the most solid song on the album. It's easy to listen too, and the lyrics are great, because everyone can get something out of them, and the song is really assuring...it makes you relax and it's the kind of song that makes you happy just listening to it, and if an artist can create a song like that, then they are brilliant. LAST TRAIN is a good song, I didn't love it at first because I thought it boring, but then I soon came back to it. The lyrics have the kind of hopeless sadness in them that make you feel so sad but keep coming back. AFTERGLOW is a good song, with a cool riff too. The chorus is safe and easy to listen too, this song doesn't challenge listeners, but it's still an excellent song. INDEFINITELY is one of the best songs on the album, one of the best travis songs ever, and the lyrics are sad but simply amazing. The pleading voice is so pleasing to the ear that this song will always be a favorite of mine. Lastly is the HUMPTY DUMPTY LOVE SONG. Many people raise questions about the strange title, but humpty dumpty is actually a simile for the guy's broken heart. This song gets especially great at the end and is a great song to listen to and fall asleep too. The extra hidden tracks in it are quite good as well.
Overall, every song on this CD is worth a listen and I want everyone to know that is CD is a five star CD, not a four!