Search and Destroy: Travis

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Just thought I'd put something in... hate me if you will, but you can't hate me any more than I hate my own nation's musical scene. The general opinion between my friends and me is that the US made the musical ingredients for it's own doom because it couldn't stop the malevolence of sex and violence (go go, FCC!), whereas the UK took some of better ingredients and blended them with it's classic, depressed sensibility... :) Most of the bands that break out of the UK onto our radio are much calmer/depressed/musical than our international darlings.

Hmm.

Listening to a lot of Travis for the first time ever as background music while meeting a work deadline this month. Definitely works as pretty without being distracting. After seeing what Coldplay turned into, it's refreshing that they stuck to their particular sound.

Anyway, turns out they put out a nice song with Susanna Hoffs last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OL2zAQMNak

Boy people really hated their "Baby One More Time" cover back in the early aughts, huh?
For me, that was the exact moment when I "got" Max Martin, because their simplified arrangement really highlighted how all the moving parts fit together.