Invisible, The - Invisible (The)

Advantages: some good tracks
Disadvantages: a few weaker tracks

...'The Invisible Band' is the third album offering from Travis following the debut album 'Good Feeling' and the top selling 'The Man Who'. The third release from the Glaswegian band offers no experimentation from the standard indie/pop that has served them so well in the past and to all intents and purposes continues in the same vein as 'The Man Who'. ----------------- Track-by-Track ----------------- 1. Sing - The album begins with ‘Sing’ which recently featured in the charts and entered the top 5. A very melodic track with classic guitars and chorus which is easy to sing along to. All Travis fans will love this one, and it is one of the best tracks on the album. The bells and the banjo accompaniment compliment the song very effectively. 2. Dear Diary - This track is particularly eerie and the piercing... Read review

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Advantages: Typical mad Coral
Disadvantages: A bit slow at times

...: A much more rock song than any of the other three songs that have gone before this on the album. The percussion shuffles along at the same speed throughout, a very quick speed. The song doesn't let up during it's near 2 and a half minute existence (the shortest song on the album) and it's one you wouldn't hear at clubs or anything unless it was Fight Club. It's brill. 8.5/10. In The Morning: The big hit off the album. It did so well it scored the Scouse lads a top 5 hit. It's worthy of a place on a Beatles album. It's just brilliant, fantastic, unbeatable. It's poptastic and they know it. We now know why the charts don't mean anything anymore. Because this was not a number 1. The keyboard has you trying to mime "do do do do dee dee dee dee". It's probably the best song on the album by a country mile. If the sun is shining and you want... Read review

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Advantages: Mellow, Amazing,
Disadvantages: Boring to some, Lacks inidividuality

...Travis recently released their eagerly awaited new album Invisible Band, and what an excellent piece of work it is. If you have ever heard the previous albums, Good Feeling and The Man Who, you might not enjoy this album as much, the songs don't have a lot of individuality and there isn't much to tell it apart from anything else in the market of a similar genre. That said there are 3 songs that really do stick out on this album. Sing is one the songs you will have heard almost non stop on radio stations all over the place, and why not, it is a superb song. It does bare a lot of similarities to Turn, but if it aint broke? Next up is Side, a fantastically written song that hopefully will be released in the near future. Probably the best song on the album in many people's eyes, Side has a wonderfully mellow tune, and you will sing... Read review

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