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Music > Albums > Travis - Good Feeling (2004) Retail CD
added on May 10, 2007, at 15:59 by allcdcovers

Debut albums are curious things: they can either be the frenzied spunking of every idea the band's ever had, leaving them spent by the time of their second album; or they can be a romp in the dressing-up box, trying on different musical personas with an eye to the future. Travis's Good Feeling falls into the second category: still working out a Teenage Fanclub and a Radiohead fixation, the simple, still beauty of The Man Who seems a long way off. Instead, Travis crank up the bounceometer: "U16 Girls" and "Tied To The 90's" are obviously forged in the heat of the toilet-circuit moshpits; and the awesome "All I Want To Do Is Rock" the sound of teeth ground down to powder in frustration. Presumably exhausted, the stripped-down "I Love You Anyways", "Falling Down" and "Funny Thing" come right at the very end, harbingers of Travis's future austere classicism. --Caitlin Moran

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