After 2 successful albums Travis brought the 2003 highly anticipated sequel to "The Invisible Band" called "12 Memories" out. The preliminary release "Re-offender" made it clear that by Fran Haley's men no change of style was to be expected. But even as Travis supporter I had to admit at first that this song could not quite keep up with the old hits like "Driftwood" or "Sing". But after intense listening to the new album then confirmed the principle that Hitverdächtigkeit and catchiness of individual pieces are important, but only in the world of Maxi-CD buyers really have significance, because the songs of Scottish rock combo have since "The one who "undergone a clear evolution. Travis moved already with "The Invisible Band" already more and more away from song collections with extreme emotional ups and downs towards a closed, album concept with melancholic mood, which as I said is seen after repeated hearing in the case of "12 Memories" , In this context, an amazing quality feature of rock albums can be made out clearly on this CD: If you have first built an emotional connection to the music, minor differences in quality between the individual pieces are only discernible. Since this is on "The Invisible Band" was the case and can be seen even more clearly in "12 Memories", I think it is possible that Travis develop into a combo that is getting better all their existence long and a status can develop very high up. Finally, I would still like to give out tips, but the album is really so closed strongly occupied that I have always had only let it go through to skipping from start to finish, without any track ... great thing.
