Written in five weeks and recorded in two, Ode to J. Smith has been billed by these Brit-pop also-rans as a return to rock urgency. Sure enough, the liveliest moments involve Andy Dunlop's guitars: country-ish clip-clop, under-the-Milky Way lushness, personable Edge impersonations, even a power...
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During the late '90s, after Blur decided it had no interest in challenging Radiohead as the U.K.'s Biggest Band and Oasis mounted a sad, Larry Holmes-esque bid to reclaim the crown, Brit-pop fans turned to Travis, who was actually more like the Little Scottish Band That Could. Judging from its unassumingly pretty folk pop, Travis had no interest in being world beaters, but when he didn't have his...
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