Travis - 10 Songs

Brand new album by TRAVIS! At various points along the trajectory between then and now, Travis has sold millions of albums (just under three million of The Man Who in the UK alone); they've been the subject of an award-winning feature length documentary (Almost Fashionable) and frontman Fran Healy has elicited acclaim from Paul McCartney, Elton John and Graham Nash - all songwriters whose ability to divine a timeless melody out of thin air has sustained them through the decades. 10 Songs is an album that holds you in it's own emotional microclimate at the outset and keeps you there. It's also a grown-up record. 10 Songs is a record about the way life comes at love and what love does to weather those challenges. "This is no rehearsal/This is the take," sings Fran at the beginning of "Waving At The Window," over an insistent piano hook, "Promises you once kept/Are going to break." Every track on this album carries an even load. No passengers here. Nowhere to hide.