J.Smith

Travis | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Label: Red Phone Box
• Copyright: 2008 Red Telephone Box
• Genres:
• ASIN: B001B26BO0
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good job!, October 25, 2008

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Martin Endara Crespo "yourdudeness" (Somewhere only we know! (ECU)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ode To J. Smith (Audio CD)

I`m loving this album, the same authentic and unpretentious style from Travis which is something fans really dig.

The album is very easy to listen too. Yes the kind of album where you don`t need the skip button. You won`t see anything new here, just some great tunes to carry around with you in your ipod or in your next roadtrip.

My favorite songs are:

Quite free
Song to Self
Before you were young

4.0 out of 5 stars A different Direction but a solid album, November 6, 2008

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Crimes&Misdemeanors "C&M" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ode To J. Smith (Audio CD)

My favorite album by is still the Invisible Band. Twelve Memories had a few good songs but felt too angsty to be Travis. Ode to Joe Smith takes some of the rawness of 12 Memories and turns it up a notch. The music itself is simplistic and memorable but catchy and memorable. If you're guitarist, you'll have fun dancing around their melodies. If you love Travis and raw brit pop pub crawlin' rock then you will not regret purchasing this release.

4.0 out of 5 stars Makes Up For Their Rather Weak Previous Album and Then Some, November 3, 2008

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Gregory Alongi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ode To J. Smith (Audio CD)

I was very surprised to see Travis releasing a new album so soon after 2007's "The Boy With No Name", especially since that album took four years to come out after 2003's "12 Memories".

So I knew I was in for either a rushed, terrible mistake, or something great. Luckily, this album is something really special.

After sort of a departure into very "poppy" music, they've found their roots and rocked out. It reminds me of their first album, 1997's "Good Feeling" in the sense that it's a bit harder than everything released after, but with a much more mature style to it.

I really enjoyed the opening track, "Chinese Blues", but was completely sold on the very dynamic, yet short, "J. Smith" which goes into a bold Gregorian chant mid-song that just blows me away.

If you lost a bit of interest in Travis from "The Boy With No Name", this should revive your faith in the band. The album is smart, fun, hard, soft, original, accessible, and eclectic. Front-man, Fran Healy reminds us, as he said on their debut album, "All I Wanna Do Is Rock".