Accustomed good but not outstanding

The new CD by Travis convinces with resistance, but they do not thereby impresses. The favorite band of Rolling Stone magazine has delivered a familiar Scottish Qualtätsprodukt. All pieces are perfectly produced and arrangiert- without exception! Get the fans of the band to which I count myself of the likely best Gitarrenpopband the world another great album. Starting with "Sing" and his pithy Banjo-line, to the bittersweet "The Humpty Dumpty Love Song". In between there is cynicism soaked childlike Weltschmerz ("Dear Diary"), relationship stress ("The Cage") and reclaim selbigem ("Afterglow"). Only superfluous song is the honey wax dripping "Flowers in the Window", which sounds as if are Scott McKenzie and the Flower Pot Men in 2001 again for Love & Peace Revolution come together hätten- apology, but the 60 over. Apart from that, every song is a (small) masterpiece of atmospheric density and intensity. Fran Healy proves an order other times he is one of the best, in the Legion of Britpopsängern. When "You are the midnight show. The only one I know. You come and then you go. And when you finish finally leave, you leave nothing for me." singing, then he would agree to any who has ever had lovesickness. Travis are the master of small gestures and the Vorgartenbeschaulichkeit. After all, who cares about the war in Macedonia, when it has just left the love? We come to the single shortcoming of "The Invisible Band", which has caused me to be stingy with the fifth star: the lack of About Hammer, still protrudes from the mass of good songs. There is a lack of this one song for which one could die, and that years later still triggers memories of those one, magical place and moment in which you have heard it. "Driftwood" from the last CD has been such a song. Of course, can not and must such marvels of music history not expect automatically, but nice wär`s just already ... Still, "The Invisible Band" has beautiful, sometimes sentimental, sometimes cheerful little pop song. One of the best albums of the summer.