The Man Who

"Mom, can we listen to Radiohead?" "No, honey. We have Radiohead at home."

Best Song: Why Does It Always Rain On Me? A decent, sing-songy, melancholy track. Worst Song: As You Are. For reasons that I can't articulate, this song felt like fake angst. Something about his pained "scream" felt forced and theatrical. Overall: Very whiny early alt-rock. The kind of music that pads the radio between the good stuff.

tá fixe mas não tá assim tão fixe... os anos 90 eram uma altura muito diferente. vale pela nostalgia. mas prefiro outras bandas.. mais uma vez, se fossem portugueses ninguém queria saber deles para nada, são uma banda que jogou sempre entre a segunda e a terceira divisão da music industry, mas como são ingleses cá estamos nós a ouvir os gajos...

2.5

The man who what? What kind of title is that? Who is this Travis fellow anyways? This has a real "for people that think Coldplay are too edgy" vibe!

2,5

Didn't mind this. Didn't love it. Unlikely to come this way again.

Not much to say about this one. It was ok but I don’t get why it’s on here.

This is like the most generic thing ever

I thought was lazy song writing. I saw a global review that said this is what people listen to who don’t have opinions on music and i wholeheartedly agree

That opening track is like a Wonderwall jumpscare. Overall I don't think this a genre that lines up well with me. However, I appreciate the presence of a hidden track

You'll never convince me that this isn't a generative AI's response after being prompted to create an album in the style of 90's Radiohead but make it as dull & uninteresting as possible.

Lyrics are ham-fisted in many places ("The Fear"), milquetoast in others ("Driftwood"). Serviceable music with some fun and unexpected turns ("Writing To Reach You," "The Last Laugh Of The Laughter"). They came about around the same time, but listening to "As You Are," it's literally like listening to Matt Bellamy's mewling whine over superficially sophisticated chord progressions. It happens again at "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" It's perhaps telling that the secret track stashed hidden at the end of "Slide Show" is far and away the best-written; for a record so adored by the British press, The Man Who is frustratingly vanilla for a lot of its runtime. This record would mean more to me if I'd discovered it before my friends at age 20, and I'd have told all of them about it.

Not terrible, but just typical late '90s formulaic alternative rock. In the late '90s, I would've given it an angry zero stars. But it's fair for what it is.

Kinda boring, thought 'turn' and 'why does it always rain on me' was good.

It doesn't evoke any emotion. It sound s dated. It's just too bland to give it 1 star so 2 it is. Also so edgy and cool to put a hidden track after 3 minutes of silence

2.2 Like if you asked AI to recreate the Bends. fave songs: writing to reach you

I’m pretty sure anyone who died without hearing The Man Who will be just fine with that. It was everywhere for a few minutes in 1999 partly because of the dirge that is Why Does It Always Rain On Me? But even that doesn’t really justify the hype. I’m giving it an extra star for Turn which I always liked, but it’s just not a great album.

Commits the eternal sin of reminding you of far better albums you could be listening to

If beige was audible

It feels like so many things went right and so many went wrong. Lovely voice, a band that can play well. The songs themselves are more often than not just too dreary and dull. Why Does It Always Rain On Me? is a classic though.

Finally answering the question “what if Radiohead were far less musically talented with unimaginative songwriting”

Mediocre 90s rock. Inoffensive and bland. Really lame lyrics. Technically fine, composed well. But unmemorable. I think I get it though? A precursor to some Brit pop/rock that came a little later. Some are saying he’s ripping off Radiohead but I only hear Coldplay. I’m not sure if that timeline makes sense.

Lacking substance imo bland

Fear the drear(y)

Exactly as I remember it. Boring Brit pop. Writing to reach you is a great song and it saves it from being rated as a 1.

Like radio head, but not as good.

Not very cool Britpop. One hit and that’s it.

Thoughts before listening: I remember these guys being a big deal with music writers back in the day, especially the British press. In my mind they were a big deal in the post-Radiohead, pre-Coldplay British alt rock world, with a sound that hits on all of the anthemic pop rock elements of Radiohead circa The Bends. Similar to a band like Keane. Review: Meh. This isn’t very good. This sounds like what you’d get if you took “Karma Police” or “High and Dry” and removed all the cool interesting parts. It’s just vanilla pop rock with anthemic choruses. I remember the songs “Turn” and “Why Does it Always Rain On Me” which are the 2 best songs here. 2-stars.

The Man Who is mostly endearing if a little boring. Their biggest single “Why Does It Always Rain on Me?” doesn’t appeal to me much, but there are some other solid melancholic ballads on the album.

Hm. It's always fun to get a band and album that I've never heard of, but I'm not sure there's a lot to this one, at least for me. The band sounds a lot like a whole lot of other alt/indie bands from the later 1990s, and while there's nothing wrong with that, it's a bit hard to know why this album (and band) made the cut to be in this project. (I also made the mistake of trying to watch the video of the first song, "Writing to Reach You," and was both baffled at whatever storyline the video was trying to tell, and which didn't seem to relate to the lyrics. Kind of annoying. "Turn" and "Why does it always rain on me" weren't much better.) I almost wonder if we should have gotten their debut album instead (ironic given the project's tendency to over-favor debut albums)? I feel a bit badly giving this only 2 stars, but it just feels like such a bland and forgettable album, with almost no sort of backstory or drama to make it more interesting.

ok dimenticabile

Okay background music I guess but all and all pretty boring. The most exciting thing was the hidden track but its not even worth all the blank noise to get to it.

A little too saccharine for me. It rarely gets out of first or second gear. Nice voice…..for about two songs, then it just gets a tad cloying. Needed more variety in the overall sound. It lulled me into a dull state of mind by the fourth or fifth song.

This feels a little watered down to me. Plus not a fan of his voice. 1st listen 2/5

It was fine, but nothing that stood out. 2.5

They sounds exactly like Radiohead, I don’t know why this album is relevant, they seem like a rip off. The music sounds ok but I don’t understand the relevance.

So it's like Coldplay/stereophonics/Keane/snow patrol. It was a 3 because I guess I kinda get why people like it even if I find it bland...then why does it always rain on me started playing and I was like nope it's a 2

Could not listen to this

Not particularly bad, but quite dull. Nothing more to offer than melancholy. A little like Oasis without balls. Could be the soundtrack to Grey's Anatomy or something like that.

Radiohead if Radiohead sucked.

the very presence of a secret song saves this from a 1 because it made me laugh. Dreadful

This is what radiohead sounds like to me.

Aggressively average. Rating: 2.5

It was like a hipster Neil Young - without the fun of hipsters...or Neil Young Pretty trite in my opinion

Pretty forgettable but not disagreeable. Because I listened to this the other day and then got 3 songs into it before realizing I’d already listened to it

Incredible how much this 1999 album sounds like 2006. Maybe people were using "Writing to Reach You" in their AMVs. Immoral therapists are playing this album in their waiting rooms to retain depressed patients. The secret song was actually pretty compelling.

britpop is not britbad, but gosh it's britaverage and i'm left bewildered why there are so much britpop on here. because of the britpop fatigue i've chronically endured as part of this listening project, i'm bored. the man who by travis (who has a lot of audacity going by his first name when i don't know him) is very average. his voice brings nothing special to the table--not to mention his voice doesn't sound good on those more emotional songs. musically, the instruments are definitely good. i found myself impressed. there wasn't any aspect i could call terrible because it was a pleasant background or active listen. but where was the creativity? it wasn't enough to get a better rating than a 2.

I found it funny that this is classified as "post-britpop". I read that genre as "okay, all the britpop wind has been knocked out of our sails, and this is what we are left with". And the funny thing is that this album essentially listens exactly like that. It's pretty bland and beige, all around. The perpetual softness of the album is fine, but when mixed with all the blandness and beigeness, it's just so...dull. This is certainly listenable, but it's also very unremarkable. Sidenote: Britpop and britpop-adjacent albums are probably some of the most represented on this project while simultaneously being among the least deserving of so much representation. So many of these albums could have been excluded in favor of so many other music legends that aren't included at all.

This album isn’t as bad as I expected. Quite milquetoast, but has some kinda interesting harmonic stuff and the singer’s voice isn’t unpleasant. There’s a delicacy to some of the arrangements that’s actually quite nice and would have been totally lost on me as a kid. Some tracks are awful cheesefests though. Some really inane lyrics and song titles too. “The Last Laugh of the Laughter”? Gimme a break. Just found out this Travis album was produced by Nigel Godrich which explains most of what I like about it! There’s def elements of it reminiscent (ahem, derivative) of Radiohead.

I was weirdly un-nostalgic about this. I expected to be taken back to the late 90s, but then I realised that by 1999 I was already looking down my nose at the likes of Travis a bit. Ultimately, this is insipid, boring and pastiche-y. There's something about Healy's (very nice) voice that makes the misery not quite ring true. I really don't get the Radiohead comparison, given the level of invention that they'd showed on OK Computer compared to this. It's closer to David Gray than it is to Thom Yorke. Driftwood is good though. Little Fran Healy nugget by the way, when Sgt Pepper turned 40 (2007) the Beeb did a really good programme where contemporary artists covered each song. Fran did Lovely Rita, and his vocals were absolutely tremendous on a song he could easily have murdered. So well done for that, if not really for this.

You've got to remember that these are just sad UK people in the 90s. A not-overplayed Oasis. A Scottish version of Blur. Coldplay without the mainstream exposure. You know, garbage.

I feel like this just committed the cardinal sin of being boring. I found nothing outstanding or special about this album. It wasn't specifically bad or miserable, it just wasn't interesting or neat in any capacity. Fav tracks: N/A

Not sure I can write a review because this album made me so sleepy

Melodic background music, wallflower voices

the man who what?

Too mello and depressing. A couple okay tracks.

Kind of annoying and wimpy also multiple songs that went on forever.

Kinda bland

I mean it's music... it's just fine. I'd say so bland that I've already forgotten what it is and I'm listening to it right now. Completely forgettable. 2.5/5

Skimmed it. Lame. "Why Does It Always Rain On Me" is the hit

It’s just so lethargic for the entire runtime. Every track ends up sounding the same. There’s a reality where I could see myself listening to this while relaxing knowing that there will be nothing interesting happening musically. Mostly I was bored while listening to this. There’s some talent on display but nothing that I’d want to return to. It didn’t help that my autoplay had a Keane track and then a Radiohead track after the album was finished. That feels like what they’re attempting but failing at. 2/5

This is like gluten-free Radiohead. That's the review. I got nothing.

Boring

If Coldplay met Radiohead and... yeah, not the greatest.

Boring

I was open to this at the beginning, I like the soft rock sound even if the lyrics aren't the most inspired. But this album gets progressively more whiny and woe-is-me as it goes and it's really just too much. I saved The Fear and Driftwood.

Meh, sounds like the less-good parts of 90's alt rock, boring chord progressions and melodies

There is just way too much mediocre 90s britpop on this list.

Wow another sad boy band, so shocking. Nothing here felt new or interesting it felt like elevator music. I caught myself zoning out here on many different songs. Lots of filler also. Not memorable at all.

Ok at the beginning, gradually becomes boring

It might not be bad.. but it's definetly not good.

Somebody has given this a 5* review and called it "nice mellow rock". Is that how we want our rock, nice and mellow? Hmmmmm Anyway, somebody bought me this album when it came out. I remember thinking at the time that apart from the stuff being played on the radio everything else on it was a bit boring. Now, I'm inclined to think that even the stuff they played on the radio was a bit boring.

I found this to be a tad bit basic indie rock indie pop. Nothing really stood out, the vocals aren’t that engaging and the melodies aren’t that rememberable. However, I loved fear and driftwood is great too (kinda sounds like a the shins knockoff). Slide is decent as well. I don’t think there’s much here. It’s a strong 2 for me. Not sure what’s the importance of this album and why it’s a part of this list. Maybe it’ll grow on me.

Bleak and pessimistic, kitchen-sink Radiohead. There are the germs of some good tunes here ("Writing to Reach You" is interesting), but it becomes repetitive and ultimately just a spiral of devastation without any redeeming features. I swear "Driftwood" is the single most depressing song ever written.

Listened to this while building the Lego bug collection. I had a roommate in college who loooooved this album. I never was much of a fan. I curious to see how I felt about years later...it was even worse than I remembered. There is nothing really bad on this album at all (aside from some groan worthy lyrics)...nothing aurally offensive. But nothing at all inventive or unique. It reminds me of the period of time in which Radiohead was being hugely innovative, and there were all these Radiohead-lite knockoffs trying to bite off the sound. Listening to this reminded me of those bands (I'm looking at you, Elbow) mixed with U2. This album could be a 3...but today I'm feeling judgy, so it gets a 2.

This is an album that some people worked very hard on. I respect that but it is not really for me.

This album is neither the Beatles nor James. And oddly might be a DNF. Well I have two more songs to go. I think there are better albums from this time and in this genera. Ooooh a hidden track, that's fun in the digital age.

sounds exactly like the music that plays during the weirdly emotional episodes of 2000s era sitcoms

C’est si MEH, c’est le pain blanc de la musique

Writing about bad music is so much more fun than writing about good - I guess that's what makes you a journalist. Me, I will just pass on that for our non-UK friends this album is one of a select few that cluster in the shelves of the charity shops of our fair country. Robbie Williams solo albums, Coldplay early stuff, b-grade britpop like Cast, rank boybands like Blue...The Man Who...is one of this select group. Because it's the album that your girlfriend bought you for your birthday that you chazza'd (technical term) as soon as you split up.

This only required a quick listen as I quickly tired of the fey, melancholic, Coldplayish tunes. I do quite like While does it always rian, but I don't want to listen to an entire albums worth of similar songs

2.5

2- A little bit of a mixed bag for me, but overall an okay experience, albeit an unmemorable one. I kinda like the vocals. If only they were tied to more interesting music. I don't really know that this is an album you should listen to before you die, but maybe Travis is (or was) a bigger deal in the U.K. or something? I don't know. This album just doesn't seem that important to me.

The Man Who sucked. Nice enough music ruined by wispy-whiny vocals. Had to skip thru songs that would have otherwise enjoyed. The lyrics were a waste of everyone’s time. Makes me feel bad for how i rated Billy Joel

It's not a bad album by any means, it's just not my taste in music. I found it to be very generic sounding background noise.

Situated firmly on the border between Blandly Inoffensive and Offensively Bland.

The best songs here sound like watered down Radiohead to my ear.

It’s boring songs that kind of sound like they want to be Radiohead? Ended up ignoring as it played in the background. The hidden track at the end was the best song on the record, maybe they should have hidden the rest and made it a single.

It sounded like Coldplay. I guess if that's your thing maybe this is for you.

Boring "sad bastard music." I'm not sure who this is for? I guess there are people out there who don't really like music who like to have this on in the background? Boring and uninspired. But I never felt the need to turn it off, I just sort of forgot I was listening to it at times.

Not a huge fan of this album. It really just felt like the band are less interesting Radiohead wannabes that came around a few years too late but are still trying to copy the sound after Radiohead had already moved on to more creative places. The rest of the album just felt boring to me aside from a few well-written standouts (that honestly are a little boring as well). I remember liking a Travis song from when I was younger and kept waiting for it to come up but it didn't, so I guess that's from some other album. Standout Tracks: Writing to Reach You, Why Does It Always Rain on Me?

I sure hope the music is less cold and grim than the cover photo! And ... it's pretty and inoffensive, but woe is me in the most boring way. Who is this kind of music even for? I don't hate it but I certainly didn't need to hear it.

Boring

Pretty boring. Not my thing

Meh

It was nice but not great. Poor Travis.

2.5

"Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" kind of epitomizes this album. A bit of a downer and didn't really do much for me musically.

If an overhead projector made an album, it would probably sound like this.

Nearly fell asleep listening to this.

Travis are a facsimile of loads of other bands - chiefly Bends era Radiohead on this album Which is fine as far as it goes - they do it better than lots of others did in that era. But it’s all just a bit flat - nothing hits the highs of a great record. A lot of that has to do with Fran Healy’s voice not being Thom Yorke’s so he just sounds weak by comparison. But driftwood is a genuinely wonderful song (have always loved the way the lyrics overlap) and the hidden track hints at a direction you wish they’d explored more on the record

I was not a fan of this at all. It was just beigeness to me. Sorry.

God this was dull. Sounds like the inside of a live laugh love mum's head when she's dropped her only child off at uni.

Couldn't finish it. Bland, uninspired shit

So I had never heard of this band, and they are whatever. I am not super familiar with Radiohead but they just sound like Radiohead to me, particularly the vocals. I suppose the arrangements and instrumentation is less interesting. I don't know, I am reading and understand that there were a few post Brit-pop bands that had this sound and garnered that comparison, Coldplay among them. I think all of it is pretty pedestrian.

Boring drivel. Wouldnt listen again

Yeah, this was pretty nothing. Jangly 90s pop that's part folk influence, part Radiohead-lite. I wouldn't judge anyone for liking this or anything, but it's hard to get into something so lethargic and simple. I could get why people would like this, but I wonder what it did to get here. Best track is the hidden track at the end that of course is tied to another song and you have to sit three minutes in silence to hear it. Love that, totally.

Not a bad listen despite them trying to sound like a cross between Radiohead and John Lennon on "Across the Universe". 10 identical tracks; none of which stood out at all.

Just what is that magic quality of British bands that make them both not very good and not too bad all at the same time? I take that back. The longer this album goes on the more it becomes bad. No mystery.

Mid

Take a pinch of Radiohead, add a bit of Coldplay, mix with Oasis. Then why, oh why am I SO BORED?

Music for people who don't really like music. There are some decent bits, but it all amounts to a more dull radiohead.

I feel like I've heard this album a dozen times already and I don't mean this in a good way. Very run-of-the-mill, nothing really stood out to me. Boring.

4 songs in and this album feels incredibly generic. Singer reminds me of the guy from Keane, at times.

Important but not essential.

One of the most boring albums I've heard for a long time.

Basic soul and jazz. Nothing incredible

This is almost the equivalent of elevator music. It's there, you here it but it's just background music that you don't pay attention to.

First few songs were OK, then became pretty bland and boring.

Don’t know Travis from a bar of soap. This album sounds a lot like Coldplay at their most boring. Didn’t mind Why Does It Always Rain On Me? but I had to wonder if the answer was obvious. I noticed that some bonus cd had a bunch of cover versions, so I gave them a listen. They included ordinary versions of The Ronettes’ Be My Baby, The Band’s The Weight, and Joni Mitchell’s River, but a really good version of Joni’s Urge For Going, & a cracking live version of Britney’s Baby One More Time.

Tasteful, gentle, soporific. I was expecting proto-landfill-indie, with completely forgettable tunes, and it was marginally better than that. But I never need to hear this album again in my life. The production is a little bit edgier and interesting than I expected (thanks, Nigel Goodrich), but at best, at its most hard-rockin', this comes across as OK Computer Lite. Actually, I'm just listening to the coda of As You Are, and this is the worst case of Thom Yorke wannabe-ism I have ever heard. I don't hate this, as it is custom made to be un-hateable, but it has no grit at all.

beautiful sounding rainy day Sad basterd brit- POP. It rains alot. Especially on me. So this is perfect today. Is it cliche to say this Radiohead if they took the blue pill and fired their weird noisy guitar player? Or Coldplay minus the pop insufferability? "Turn" is anthemic and britpopguitary "Why Does It Always Rain On me?": Gorgeous song, and the only one I know. A KD CMJ comp classic. It's that chord progression. D-AM that was an unassuming and pleasant experience....oh wait...a secret track! Feedback and dark acoustic tune...turned slow rocker.. Nothing goofy.

Fran is not Chris Martin lets be honest. Wishy washy indie with a couple of hits and a fortunate Glastonbury appearance. Now parked in the Where are They Now pile ?

I sort of recall hearing this band in the 90s. Then Why Does it Always Rain on Me came on and I was like, yeah, I've heard this but I always thought it was Rufus Wainwright. I found this band much like their album cover---nothing really memorable.

Música sin riesgos, de sonidos previsibles, a niveles y ritmos seguros y estables. Es como Coldplay si no tuvieran ninguna buena canción, o Radiohead si no despertaran ninguna emoción.

no me disgusto me costo un huevo terminarlo igualmente cada dos o trees temas terminaba poniendo el mixtape de ice spice

Boring. It bores me in the morning. It bores me in the afternoon. It bores me at suppertime. But it’s inoffensive.

What we were all thinking? At the time this was huge, a sort of calmer BritPop palate cleanser but my god this struggles to get any heat under it and has not held up at all well. Good for adverts and trailers now.

There's too much of a Zach Braff in Garden State vibe working here. That's not the band's fault as much as it is Zach Braff's, but sometimes you get hit with friendly fire. There are a handful of gems here. But too much sounds like watered down Coldplay.

it’s like radiohead but not the irritating bleep blurp radiohead but also not the good radiohead it’s like the maudlin radiohead that turned into coldplay

What’s their bleeping obsession with Oasis’s Wonderwall?!?

Gotta be a pretty special singer-songwriter album to keep my attention. If the rest of the album was like the ending to Slide Show, this rating would have been higher

Was unsure why I hadn't heard of Travis before. After listening I understood why.

Juz powoli zapominalem, ze jest to generator brytyjskiego grania, ale szkocikowa grupa Travis przypomina co to znaczy britpopowanie, czy moze raczej postpopowanie, biorac pod uwage ile tutaj odniesien do mainstreamowego brzmienia lat 90, krazek z 97 jest drugim albumem w dyskografii tej czteroosobowej bandy, ktora brzmi dokladnie tak samo jak polowa muzyki wyspiarskiej z tamtego okresu, calkiem dlugi longplej, bo az 47 minut na 10 trakow, ale ostatni utwor ponad 10 minutowy, a grania bedzie maksymalnie z 5, reszta to ciszowe jajco wielkanocne, wiec album zacza sie jakosciowo od writing to reach you, ktory jest mocno inspirowany tworczoscia oasisowa, ale im dalej tym bardziej nijako, czyli tak jak to ma byc w graniu popowo brytyjskim, wedlug wiki tylko dwa traki maja miec smyczkowe elementy, ale jestem prawie pewny, ze bambozluje wiki, bo sporo tutaj instrumentow niezlistowanych, jak jakies harmonijkowanie czy synthowe klawisze, chyba ze o czym nie wiem, ale tak czy inaczej im dalej w krazek tym mniej tego sie slucha jak zespolu skladajacego sie z czterech ludzi grajacych instrumenty, a przechodzi w instrumenty grane przez czterech ludziow, wiec na plejke dodam openingowego writing to reach you, ale czy cos wiecej poza referencjami oasisowymi mi zostanie po tym krazku ciezko stwierdzic, bo wyspiarskie popowanie to jednak niedoscigniona nijakosc i brak miejsca na odrobine prawdziwosci

For the first time I am typing my review on my computer and not my phone! Thank you, Luke. Back to this album. Felt it was close to being reasonable, but couldn't quite get there. There was no major substance to it, no music or lyric that really stood out to me. Almost too depressing. Won't say it was terrible, but can't say it was very good either. A big "meh" for me. I'll give a 2. but closer to 1.5.... I want some Blackberry Smoke, damnit

2.5 This is more my style of indie pop alternative. Catchy melodies and clear vocals. Sadly it doesn’t last. It gets too samey and for me by the end. The vibe is very Radiohead and the vocals remind of Civil Twilight but with little punch behind the music. I feel like I’m missing something with this kind of genre. I can’t seem to engage.

2 Travis as a band name has always bothered me... like, come on guys, it's a pretty common first name. Imagine the confusion that would ensue if a hot, new band broke out known only as "John". Good luck Googling that. Anyway, segueing here, the music is about on the same level of creativity. This album seems to hit all the same notes that every other early 2000s pop rock band was putting out, but compared to groups like Coldplay and The Fray, I feel like Travis is all-around less remarkable. The singer also sounds incredibly similar to Thom Yorke vocally, to the point where a few of the songs sound probably like what Radiohead would have sounded like had they decided to play it safe after The Bends. Regardless, no matter how you slice it, there's nothing here I feel like I haven't heard before. Not bad, but meh. Favorites songs: As You Are, Turn, Blue Flashing Light

Slideshow 지겨워 죽을 뻔 했다.

Good but not memorable

It felt like they were trying too hard to be "The Bends"-era Radiohead. I mean... pick a lane, man. I like that they kept the whole hidden track thing on Spotify and did not break it up. Hearing the slide projector on "Slide Show" took me back to my childhood a bit. I guess copying Radiohead... there are worse bands to mimic, right? So yeah, I just... didn't feel anything from these guys. Didn't hate them, but... forgettable. Next.

Just ok, but likely won't ever listen again to be honest.

A wet paper bag of an album. Pointlessly joyless.

A few really nice melodies, but overall the album didn't stick in my mind as very original or interesting. In my opinion, the best part of the album was the three-song sequence – As You Are, Driftwood and The Last Laugh Of The Laughter – which, on the other hand, reminded me so much of Radiohead that it probably explained my preference for those songs. I couldn't get too excited about the lyrics either.

Aika masiskamaa. Toi hitti nyt on ihan sellanen päähänjäävä. Ei ihan napannu

Muutamissa biiseissä hyviä Kent-fiboja, mutta keskimäärin aika meh.

Vähän tylsempää ysäri-indietä. 2/5.

When I was a teenager I had Travis on my MP3 player and my aunty took the piss out of me, she was right to. I mean - it's basically a fine album. Not offensive. Has a lot of songs that refer to other, better, songs which is a pet peeve of mine. I've almost completely forgotten the album since listening and I had almost completely forgotten about Travis too u til they popped up on here - that symbolises how I feel about them I think.

Not a big fan of Brit pop

Favourite Song - Turn One for Karaoke - Turn One for a run - the last 3 minutes of Slide Show I was close to giving it a 3 due to the big hits still sounding decent. Turn is great but the songs around the hits sound like he wants to be Thom Yorke and there’s only one Thom Yorke babaayyyyy

zzzzz...

Nothing really drew me to this album. I've heard plenty of sad alt radio rock. 3/10

His vocals make me want to fall asleep. Have to say it's quite boring. It's no surprise this record is produced by Nigel Godrich, the legend behind Radiohead's catalogue - it sounds really similar instrumentally to that of Radiohead's work, minus the interest, intrigue and impeccable songwriting. Favourite Tracks: - Why Does It Always Rain On Me - Blue Flashing Light - Writing to Reach You Overall Grade: 2/5

Travis is one of those "sold millions of albums but you don't know anyone who owns one" band. This album is like if you mixed Radiohead, Keane, Elton John, Harry Styles and Coldplay and took everything that makes all of these musicians work. It could easily have been a nice but forgettable cheesy soft rock album and we would all be alright. But nooo, instead they tried SO hard to make it "unique" and, "different" and "experimental", a "not like the other boys" album (ironically, this exact phrase is mentioned in one of the songs). They tried to write excessively poetic and quirky lyrics, but instead the lyrics came out as cringy and edgy, like the ramblings of a teenager. Their attempts to experiment with other genres are laughable (like the "psychedelic" second half of the album, or the failed 10 min final song "Slide Show"). The instrumentals and rythm are extremely boring. The only reasons why I'm not giving this album 1 star are: a) The singer's voice is really good and he clearly seems talentend b) There are still some pretty decent songs, like "Driftwood" and "The Fear"

What the hell is a wonderwall anyway? I assumed this was a high school English project and was disappointed to learn that it was actually written by fully grown adults I love songs in multiple languages Chill vibes - they'd be great on the little stage at Piqniq

Got real bored.

Weak radiohead

Alles gleich

A relatively boring collection of soft rock/pop songs. I found this very whelming as none of the songs get that upbeat and they style is similar to a modern folk. It felt like for trying to understand Brit rock of the 90s this just made me appreciate Brit rock more. This was nothing too special. 4.4/10

easy listening. turned into back round noise. not horrible but didn't really grab my attention.

Foi o mais agradável de ouvir dos britpop, por ser praticamente todo acústico.

I get poor man Radiohead vibes more than Coldplay vibes to be honest. Decent enough in parts and ok as background music, but I find it beige and mostly forgettable overall.

How does this even make the list?

Initially it sounds like a litany of bands that came out at the time. Keane, Train even newer Radiohead etc. I've heard why does it always rain on me but that's it. Maybe the Buzz played it. It was a fine listen but I don't seek out this genre.

2.5

Much like The xx, I hadn't heard of these guys before. Or at least, not that I'm aware of. A song or three felt vaguely familiar, but that might be because they sound like Radiohead and Oasis got together and spawned a less talented baby. There wasn't much here for me to latch onto. "As You Are" had a brief guitar solo that caught my ear, but that relative bright spot was quickly dispelled by the saccharine "Driftwood" and cheesy harmonizing of "The Last of the Laughter." "Turn" seems to represent Travis in microcosm. They're competent musicians, but are lacking when it comes to lyrical prowess (singing "turn" over and over again isn't much of a chorus). This feels like the kind of music that seems profound when you're young and just had your heart stomped on for the first time, but which loses its luster once you grow up a little and find far more talented musicians to listen to. My favorite part of the album was when it ended. I immediately listened to "Hand of Doom" as a palate cleanser.

Started this one and went about my work day. This album was so unmemorable that I don't even recall much of it having listened to it. It didn't hold my attention at all. More whispery whiny vocals that bored me more than anything. Not terrible. But also not memorable. If I had to pick a track I'd listen to again, it would probably be "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" It was kinda catchy.

ok.

Sometimes thought it was okay, sometimes hated it.

Pretty forgettable. Definitely some early Radiohead going on. Decent in places, I was kind of digging the last track. A 2 that I feel bad about. Maybe it could be a 3 if I listened to it more, but honestly I don't feel like I really want to anytime soon.

I’m familiar with another album from Travis (“The Invisible Band”) which I liked much better. This one was alright.

So sleepy. There must be something deep I'm missing-- all I heard was inoffensive soft rock.

Post-britpop, melankolsk, stille rock

I can understand that this maybe influenced the moody indie scene of the early 2000’s, but it is definitely outpaced by its descendants.

Tries to hit the sweet spot between nascent '00s-indie (think Guster/Keane) and Radiohead-esque grunge roc,k but lands more in the doldrums reserved for forgettable contemporary radio you hear while waiting in the doctor's office.

Eh. Not much to say.

My ex bought this album and played it quite a lot. One of the best things about our split was this record leaving the house forever.

Holy snoozefest. This album was so boring.

Pros: - Opener is a great track. Love the chord progression in the chorus. I can't put a finger on it but the line "I might never reach you" has some great Beatles-y chords under the vocals. - Second track, "The Fear" is like a more modern Neil Young track. Very cool sound. It even has some Radiohead type sounds underneath the vocals too. - SO many chordal mood shifts. I'm hearing a lot of major chords getting moved to minor over the course of a chorus or phrase. - "As You Are" is even more radiohead-y! Cons: - Some songs come across as being pretty like.. medium? I find it hard to describe but there's a very "agreeable" sound to this record. "Inoffensive". I tend to gravitate towards some kind of offending going on in music. Not so much of a knock against them because they do have a great sound and this is very listenable. Misc: - This is pretty new to me, maybe I heard it on the radio as a ~9 year old but I don't recall this album or band name at all. - Great sound! I'm impressed with this a lot. - While it's a nice album, in the context of 1001 albums you need to hear, it is a questionable decision. IMO it lacks memorability.

This is what you hear in your head when you’re in a coma

The fact that Spotify calls out this artist or songs from this album are featured on One Tree Hill and Everwood soundtracks from the era speaks volumes. Bland pop rock that could be played at the poignant moments of some low-brow teen drama is exactly what this seems written for.

I liked Driftwood, but I'm struggling to find anything to say about the album as a whole. It's pleasant enough.

It was OK

beetje zeikerig

There's just not much here.

I found this hard to get into. I'm not sure what the attraction is.

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to start looking up the lyrics. After the Pixies, these guys aren't quite as surreal or deep : If we turn, turn, turn, turn, turn Turn, turn, turn If we turn, turn, turn, turn, turn Then we might learn, learn, learn _________ The singer sounds like Thom Yorke on the ballads. There isn't anything specific I don't like about this.

The colour palette on the album cover describes the music within very well, bland like oatmeal. And boy do they ever sound like a MOR knock off of Radiohead. I think I would still live a fruitful and rewarding life if I died without hearing this record too.

Pleasantly boring.

I could 'sing, sing, sing' about how much I don't like this Travis, but the truth is that I've never listened to much of them until now. That being said, this album met my expectations. The singer is flagrantly dramatic and can't help but feel like he's the male version Gweneth Paltrow. Vagina candle, anyone?

Coldplay is a more boring Radiohead. Travis is a more boring Coldplay.

The sound is softer rock to me. Fran Healy’s voice doesn’t work with the sound for the most part. Some lines his voice sounds good and then the next line it’s back to not quite working. I think his voice would work fine in a band with a heavier sound, but here it gets exposed on full display too often. I think it also comes down to the register for the song because his voice works for Slide Show, pre-hidden track. But also the hidden track on Slide Show is a heavier sound which covers up the problems with his voice and it sounds fine. As You Are has one of the most boring guitar solos I’ve ever heard. I think it got somewhat interesting later on but I had already forgotten what was happening. Supposedly the band performed Why Does It Always Rain On Me? At the Glastonbury Festival and it started raining just as the first line was sung. Apparently this coincidence was all over the news the next day and significantly elevated Travis’s popularity. So much so that they headlined the Glastonbury Festival a couple years later. First of all, Why Does It Always Rain On Me? is a good song. It’s one where Fran Healy’s voice works well for the whole song. I’d definitely enjoy this song on a playlist somewhere. However, this story sounds too good to be true. It rains often in southwestern England. Why was this viewed as some sort of divine sign? Even if it’s true, a minor coincidence does not a good band make. If is it true, my takeaway is that musical popularity is too arbitrary.

Too mellow for my tastes.

It is not that good of an album. None of the songs are memorable. It is not the worst album but I don't know why this made the list. No need to listen to it.

A decent album that I found mostly forgettable. Favorites: "Writing To Reach You"

Dull

Sounds like some mainstream pop rockers trying their damnedest to sound like Radiohead (and mostly succeeding due to Nigel Godrich's production). Still, a pale imitation which seems to lack depth.

boring

This is gonna be a meh from me.

U2 meets Oasis and it's not as inspired as either of the parts. What's with this list and high-pitched vocals? Highlight Tracks: 3, 4, 7

yawn. not my kind of music.

A bit of undemanding nostalgia. Pleasant enough but can understand I haven’t listened to it in 15 years

Music equivalent of watching paint dry. "Why does it always rain on me...cos you're a dull twat."

Tired and overplayed. When this album was released, I was working at Blockbuster Video, it was played constantly for a couple of weeks, drove me to boredom. Aside from standout tracks; Writing To Reach You, Driftwood and Why Does It Always Rain On Me? the rest of the album is dull and dated.

Off brand Radiohead doing ballads. Not for me.

Boring

Really didn’t like the singers’ voice and the album was a bit overstuffed. The guitar-playing is captivating.

I know people who love the hell out of this band and they don't come off as posers or anything, but this stuff just slid right on by me, like plain oatmeal. Production sounds great, the band doesn't seem to be faking it. But man, I could not get into this. It always seems ready to tip over into some of my favorite Radiohead stuff? Maybe that's the block for me.

When I was in grad school and had to work as a teaching assistant, I had a student who really wanted to share his favorite music with me and burned a CD-R of a different record from Travis. (12 Memories) I liked that record. Not so much this one. Not a whole lot of variety going on from song to song and I sense a much bigger Thom Yorke influence on the vocals here than I did on the other. Are we keeping a tally of how many British artists are on this list?? I’ve lost count.

So so

Very bland, but a couple of nice tunes.

Is Travis the pop version of Radiohead. This only got a 2 because of the Rain song.

emo uk bois have done it again

Not great

I didn't like this album very much. It mainly came down to how much the lyrics were repeated and how the harmonies or sound wasn't very interesting. It felt very stiff and unchanging throughout each song. Favorite track: Driftwood

4/10 not bad, slow and yawny

Like I suspected, I went in with prejudice and left the same way. Just not my type of rock or soft rock or whatever. Will not return.

Boring

Easy listening but doesn’t feel like it strays away from that alternative sound. It sounds like Radiohead without the experimental sound that makes it special.

Not bad but sounded like pretty generic Brit pop to me. Made me realize I didn’t rate Air high enough.

Soporific but not unpleasant. Good background music. Played it while working and it didn't interrupt my concentration at all. Feel like I'd heard all the songs before, even though I definitely haven't, they are just oddly familiar.

I enjoyed this one. sad but we live in sad times, send me something happy...

Oasis- lite. A couple okay songs but overall found it a bit boring for my style.

Slower than I remember, which is Probably why it always rains on him, takes too long to get indoors. And also Scotland. I feel harsh low ranking it cos it's not shite, I just didn't enjoy that trip down memory lane.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Writing To Reach You Cutting Edge: Driftwood Overall Notes: This is what Coldplay would sound like if they wrote exclusively wrote songs for mid-2000s 58% Rotten Tomatoes scoring rom-coms. It's mid Keane. "Something Only We Know" and "Everything's Changing" are better versions of anything and everything on this album.

Apart from one catchy song, rather too mundane

ok background listening but that's about it for me

Kind of a boring album tbh, nothing popped out

Als puberteit gepaard gaat met baard in de keel, is Travis de Benjamin Button van de muziekindustrie

I doubt this album would appear on any 1001 list from outside the UK. Post-The Bends. Pre-Coldplay. Peak "Britrock". It's almost as if each song was inspired by a different 5 second clip of High & Dry, and then built up from there. I mean that as a compliment. This album sounds great - the arrangements and production make the simple songs sound fantastic. I loved this stuff 20 years ago. Not for me now. But AER in 1999 doesn't have a drivers license and needs big chorus, big strings, big Yorke-voice to feel like he's feeling whatever he imagines people are feeling when they are having deep feelings. AER in 1999 gives this a A-. AER in 2021 gives this a C+ and recommends Gentle Stream by The Amazing instead.

Travis is possibly my least favorite band name, sounds so whiny. This album is soft and generic. It’s what I imagine Dawes sounds like. A less indy Sun Kill Moon/Coldplay combo, it’s like that band Karen Heath liked that ripped off Elliott Smith, it feels like a ripoff of Bends era Radiohead, it’s U2 and Keen and every other 90s band. They took the vocal crescendos of Radiohead, the backing band of Coldplay and played folk with it. I do have to admit, some good melodies, nice voice, spans a few genres but nothing stands out, it’s flat and generic.

I liked this when it came out but there's not much to it. Nice enough for a watered down Radiohead

3.5

Usually, I like this type of music, but this is just ....nhem

Thoroughly forgettable. Just wanted it to be over.

No. Nomás no.

Aburridoo

1.5 - post britpop elevator music

Some good songs but a bit dull - some weird mixing/production as well

Great representation of the last dying gasp of the 90s

Hentoa poppia joka ei säväyttänyt eikä vituttanut.

Boring. So boring. “Why Does It Always Rain On Me” and “Slide Show” were pretty great though.

nah

Can't take it.

Very boring. Nothing really stood out as to why I needed to hear this. started hailing when this album was on, fuck you Travis

So bland and boringly derivative that I don't even know what to say about it. Feels like trying to review water - it's wet and you can drink it ?... Even the cover art is insipid. Also dangerously close to straight-up plagiarism. 2/10

I respect Radiohead a lot, but even the best bands can miss the mark. Everything I hate most about them is on full display here: the syrupy, tear-stained side, the emotional obviousness, those whiny crescendos built for easy tears. Travis takes that whole formula and turns it into an entire career. I hated every minute of that album.

Ça manque trop de personnalité pour être marquant

Post-Britpop might be slightly less painful to listen to than post-grunge, but it's not really any more worth your time.

Sometimes the page refreshes and you just have to LOL at the sheer absurdity of considering the album that has just appeared essential in any way. There was never any reason to listen to this bland, paint-by-numbers MOR, and there never will be.

If beige and vanilla gave birth to an inoffensive, mundane baby that grew up and decided to create an inoffensive, mundane album full of plodding tracks that made me look up why Spotify don’t have a feature to play songs at 1.5x or 2x the speed (I think at least have the songs would have benefited from having an actual tempo, and the other half would have benefited from me halving the amount of time I wasted on them). This was on course for a dreary 2 star review, until I discovered that they had the temerity to hide an actual song, one with an actual tempo, an actual beat, and using instruments not stolen from an outdated school music room, as a hidden track at the end. A barely deserved one star.

Astonishingly bland music. (The last track contains a spark; but it fails to light, and comes waaaaaaay too late to save the album.) Sounds like the guy that stops getting invited to parties, not because he always brings his guitar, but because what he plays immediately kills the vibe. I actually feel like I’ve become a less interesting person simply for having listened.

Uggghhh so lame! Even the one hit wonder song sucks on this album.

You winsome? You lose, son. You can't come at Oasis only to reveal yourself as even less culturally literate. Wonderwall is a late 60s British art film with a score by George Harrison. Both Gallaghers know that. Healy completely embarrasses himself here and all across the record. 1 I haven’t listened to this album in several years but I remember it well enough that I expected to find very little pleasure in visiting again. I did not expect, however, to have quite as miserable an experience as I had today. What a wretched little album this is. What a wretched little band. What a watershed year in musical wretchedness was 1999. What a wretched world we live in; this vale of tears and mediocrity. Nigel Godrich produces. A poor fit for Travis, in my humble opinion, notwithstanding the millions of copies that this album went on to sell. Godrich‘s neat, beautifully spaced soundstage leaves Travis - competent, unstylish players - cruelly exposed. A few years later The Strokes, to their credit, would dump Godrich after a few sessions; the problem was surely that he let them hear what they really were. Not so Travis. “Nigel Godrich! Aw man, OK Computer was claassSsss!!“ they almost certainly said. Dickheads. Before Travis even met Nigel Godrich Radiohead had already written and recorded ‘I Promise‘ - easily the best Travis song - and left it off OK Computer, not even bothering at the time to toss it out on a b-side. I dare say it is absurdly unfair to compare any band with Radiohead in their pomp and in truth there is more of (lobotomised) Paul McCartney about Healy‘s approach to structure and harmony than of Radiohead - all cute diminished sevenths and chord substitutions. But compare them to Radiohead we must, because Travis’ asking for it did not end with choosing to work with Nigel Godrich. The scooping static noise at the end of The Fear obviously recalls the end of Karma Police. The bouncing delay of the solo guitar that kicks off Driftwood recalls exactly the same idea on Subterranean Homesick Alien. Fran‘s vocals constantly recall Thom Yorke‘s penchant for eliding lyrics in tongue-idle falsetto moans (the opening lines of ‚The Last Laugh..‘ frankly feel like parody). But while Radiohead have the vision (and boldness) to paint melancholy on a grand, operatic scale, Travis’ version feels smaller even than the bedsit. This is barrel organ melancholy, empty of all conviction and drama. The lyrics are a jumble of merry nonsense and harmless cliche - there is never any sense of confession; never any sense that Fran feels alienated or has really lost the girl. Ostensibly it’s a work of introspection; Fran Healy begins two different songs by waking up sad and another by going to bed sad. There’s a song about the death of laughter. It’s always raining on him. But Fran is always busy winking at you to let you know he’s not really sad. The album begins with Fran waking up under the oppression of the perpetual seeming-Sunday - a believable and potent enough conceit when Morrissey does it - but within a couple of lines it has turned into a wee gag about Oasis being on the radio too much. Bollocks. What has Fran to say about the sky - that shows nothing and is nowhere for Larkin, empty of God for Plath, birdless and swollen black for the Manics? Oh where did the blue sky go?/ Oh why is it raining so? Even if there was poetry worthy of a six-year old in that, no Scot ever asked these questions in earnest. It’s all obvious bollocks. Fran Healy is a cheerful, personable wee character. Travis are probably all mates. Grotesque. 1.5/5

No thank you. Why does it always rain on you? Even when the sun is shining? Maybe because you're a chronic complainer who could whine through the happiest days of your life. Seek help for depression folks.

This band is Radiohead lite. They lack both melody and an interesting lyric. The music drones on sounding very much like a Tibetan monk on a Himalayan mountainside.

less made in a lab than Coldplay, good representation of alt rock transitioning to car commercial music. it's like listening to a slightly less smooth Everly Brothers contemporary. you don't go 'oh, that's not quite as bad', the function is to make you more annoyed with the whole era. 1 star, Travis!!!! music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Too slow & depressing

radiohead leftovers. I think this is the first album we've done where I both don't understand its inclusion and it felt like a waste of time

More whiney hipster indy rock schlock. I guess this is on this list because it came out in 99, and every indie rock band for the next 10 years sounds like this. Not sure we should celebrate that though. 1/5

This sounds like Radiohead lite. I really disliked it for the same reasons I dislike Radiohead.

Its like.. worse Oasis.

Just…no.

Didn't enjoy it first time and no better now. Not even saved by the Ealing connections

A lesser version of Coldplay

radiohead-lite. for when the bleeps and blips are just too much for the MOR inclined. it's fine. it’s for high schoolers.

Weak-ass shit made me angry.

Travis is not resonating with me 1/10 songs added

Feels like this 😿

This album could survive a nuclear bomb, that's how safe it is. Musical equivalent of sorting your colours and your whites. -100 points for giving "people whose favourite game is FIFA" plenty of ammo to sing at karaoke.

After yesterday I thought I would have to start reconsidering my 90s music dislike. No I'm still correct. GOD I'm so bored. (Why Does It Always Rain On Me slaps, and I quite liked Slide Show)

A one star rating, for me, means that I actively could not wait for the album to be over, and I'm honestly surprised an album this boring and seemingly harmless can even rise to that level. This one exists in the same uncanny valley as would a bad AI attempt to create a song out of the worst, most quintessentially 90's qualities of Radiohead, U2, Coldplay, Oasis, and the like; the elements are there, but without even a modicum of human creativity. Instead of fading into the background, the beigeness of it all somehow managed to make me increasingly anxious and irritated as it dragged on. We get it already—the author listened to a lot of albums in Britain in the 90s/2000s, and apparently enjoyed the experience.

I can’t believe this album is one I have to listen to before I die. Dull and soporific, I almost drove the car into a ditch.

Painfully inoffensive. This can only be on this list as an example of the worst aspects of the brit pop hype.

I really don't understand the appeal of putting minutes of dead air in the middle of your song. Who gets to that point and goes "ah thank you, I needed an intermission from this song". Was gonna rate this a 2 just based on the sad, boring, and whiny music itself, but I guess the "addition" of random pure silence gives me a good reason to go all the way to a 1.

Yawn.. like a less interesting Coldplay or yellow card

Is it really that hard to not make rock boring as hell? Jesus fuck this album is pissing me off Oh wow now they're trying to be lolrandom just run me a bath man (in a nemzian sense) Oh? A Wonderwall reference? Shit begets shit I guess

This is like when you get in an Uber and try to orient yourself with the bad music that’s playing and you realize it’s weird Jesus Christian music. But actually this is worse because it sounds like that and it isn’t weird Jesus Christian music.

About as exciting as doing laundry, and sadly now spotify thinks I want more milquetoast with my breakfast

wow this one was absolutely ass. whoever even added this album to this list needs to be checked out. this feels like some kind of radiohead fan album but with way more embarrassing songwriting and worse production. if i absolutely was forced to give them credit for a single thing, i'd say that the actual production of the album can be pretty okay in some small bits, but that enjoyment is almost instantly sapped away the moment i hear any lyrics. standout tracks: 💀

i genuinely wonder how some of these albums are chosen. like are we fr ts is such a nothingburger slop snore bore fest. just listen to radiohead or coldplay or literally any other post-britpop band and theyll be more interesting. these dudes cant write a melody thats catchy or interesting for the life of them. the singer is doing his best thom yorke impression and failing. and there isnt even a single riff on this entire album?!!! whats the point of this, at least coldplay and radiohead know how to write smthn that sticks. this is slop!!!!!!!1 1.5/5

Brit pop was really big when I was a kid. Every band took a different aspect of British life close to heart. With Oasis it was British Invasion rock and roll and Madchester drugs. For Blur it was sophisticated rock with pop sensibilities like Queen or Pink Floyd. Pulp sang danceable working class hymns and Suede went for androgynous repressed sexuality. Travis, I guess, decided to play out the grey boredom of English life. This is so dull. Even when they try and reach some emotional crescendo it’s done in the dullest of ways. Throw it in the bin.

This sounds like about 200 of the other albums that are on this list.

Boring ripoff Coldplay, who are already ripoff Radiohead. Sounds like elevator music but with bad whiny pop punk vocals, but it it had heard ok computer once 3 years ago and is trying to describe it within that context

Poo

STOP IT

Is the man who...Travis? And if so, Travis who? That mystery is more interesting than this album. Favorite Track: "Luv".

I never heard of this band before but honestly made me a little angry listening to this, and hard not to skip most tracks - It seems like very safe music, designed to be inoffensive in all aspects which pisses me off because it feels safe, I am not even sure if it deserves "ok" 2 stars, possibly my 2nd 1 star here.

I didn't know there was something I could dislike more than Coldplay

In this period there was an insatiable demand for Radiohead, and there just wasn’t enough Radiohead. The market responds by producing ersatz Radiohead to fill the gap. This is fine, it’s how fads work, time passes and the ersatz is forgotten. Except by our curator! Who apparently thinks the ersatz Radiohead era was significant actually. 200 records in I’m starting to suspect we’re not in good hands.

If the guy who always drags his acoustic guitar to a party made an album where he combined the worst elements of Oasis with Mazzy Star it would be more interesting than this

Fucking woof.

A staggering lack of sauce

I don’t like Travis.sorry

eh, i really don't like their band name so i'm not gonna listen

Im convinced that this album is on this list because he thought you needed to know what the middle of the road sounds like. Like Radiohead if they had no guts. This probably had heavy rotation on Adult Contemporary Radio. (Station just above the Lite Radio station they play in dentists waiting rooms) The fact that this is so inoffensive makes it so damn offensive.

Album was ok but not really my type of music. I wouldn’t buy this album

I don't have much to say about this except that it's competent but boring. I'm pretty sure I don't need to hear grocery store music like this before I die. I absolutely hated listening to this, in fact.

I might've liked this album when I was 14. But you know who I hadn't listened to yet at 14? Radiohead! This band sounds exactly like they're trying to be Radiohead. But not just any iteration of Radiohead - like a milquetoast, bland, sometimes irritating version of Radiohead. I have no songs to highlight from this project, I wish it wasn't on this list that Radiohead is already on multiple times. Something between a total snoozer and a tragic attempt to sound vogue at its time. I have to give this album a 1/5 on principle. Please remove this from the list if we are so lucky to get another series of amendments.

Temu version of Radiohead and Coldplay's offspring.