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Where You Stand

Travis

Where You Stand

Seventh album and first in five years from the Glasgow indie rock quartet

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
Red Telephone Box
UK Release date
19/08/2013
US Release date
20/08/2013
  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    If staying true to yourself and writing an impeccable collection of songs that make the world that we know glow in a translucent blue hue is wrong, I don’t wanna know what’s right
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  2. 8.0 |   Clash

    New fans will not be won, but the initiated will be delighted
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  3. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    Fran Healy sings with unstrained sweetness of tone – no instrumental pyrotechnics allowed to gatecrash
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

    Finds the quartet catching up with themselves and displaying real depth and maturity. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   The Independent

    It's the tiredness of the songwriting that cripples Where You Stand
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  6. 8.0 |   All Music

    It's heartening to hear them reconnect with some of the wilder aspects that informed their earliest records
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  7. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    Where You Stand is both a compelling reintroduction to those who grew up (but may have lost touch) with Travis and comfort food for longtime fans
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  8. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    If Where You Stand isn’t Travis’s best album, then I feel justified in saying that it at least feels like a(n almost) perfect little Travis album
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  9. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Where You Stand picks up where you last left them – no matter where that was along the way
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  10. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Those who weren’t into Travis in the past aren’t going to follow suit
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  11. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Through circumstances good and bad, Travis is still here, and, from the sound of it, they’re a better band for it
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  12. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    The fanbase will be overjoyed to have them back
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  13. 6.0 |   The Digital Fix

    If the five years since their last album has been too long for you, be glad that Where You Stand stands on its own two feet
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  14. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Travis are still doing what Travis have always done: knocking out middle-of-the-road, mildly melancholic, Radio-2-friendly pop-rock
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  15. 6.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Healy's voice got right into my heart. It doesn't surface all the time, but there's a kind of magic in their gentle universality
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  16. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    A collection of brilliantly composed melodies that just lack the gravitas to lift them higher
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  17. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Fran Healy writes music of subtle gesture, apparently allergic to anything that might come across as excess showiness. Print edition only

  18. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Healy's voice is still a trusty conduit of wistfulness and euphoria. Print edition only

  19. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    In an era when nearly every other artist seems content with mining its narrow niche, happy to have its own little choir to preach to, there's genuine nobility in the way Travis is still trying to wrap its arms around the world
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  20. 4.0 |   The Scotsman

    There’s no wham-bam about their songwriting and if you are already a fan, you may simply slip back into an undemanding appreciation of their easy listening style
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  21. 3.0 |   Under The Radar

    It's clear Where You Stand is valiantly trying to capture that Good Feeling again, but some things just disappear along with your youth
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  22. 2.0 |   God Is In The TV

    It certainly doesn’t have any redeeming facets
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  23. 2.0 |   The Arts Desk

    This is dull, predictable music for squares
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