Scottish indie stalwarts Travis return with new album, L.A. Occasions

Travis are set to return with a brand-new album this summer season.

Launched on 12 July, L.A. Occasions guarantees to be the collective’s most intimate LP since their breakthrough, The Man Who, topped the charts in 1999.

Speaking in regards to the launch, singer Fran Healy stated: “L.A. Occasions is our most private album since The Man Who. There was numerous large stuff to jot down about again then, the tectonic plates had shifted in my life. I used to be 22 after I was writing these songs. They had been my remedy. Over 20 years later and the plates have shifted once more. There’s lots to speak about.”

Launched by way of BMG, the announcement comes because the group shares new single Gaslight. Watch under:

Talking about Gaslight, Healy says: I learn a number of weeks in the past that gaslighting was probably the most net searched phrase on the planet. We live in a time the place our realities are being warped by bosses, leaders, buddies, lecturers and politicians. It truly is in all places. Gaslighters wish to management you. They inform you issues which undermine your confidence in your self and make you query actuality and it makes you are feeling such as you’re going loopy.”

L.A. Occasions Tracklisting:

1. Bus
2. Raze the Bar
3. Dwell It All Once more
4. Gaslight
5. Alive
6. House
7. I Hope That You Spontaneously Combust
8. Bare In New York Metropolis
9. The River
10. L.A. Occasions

That includes Healy (vocals, guitar), Andy Dunlop (guitar), Dougie Payne (bass) and Neil Primrose (drums), the line-up has remained the identical since their formation on the Glasgow College of Artwork within the Nineties.

Travis will start an enormous dwell season in summer season 2024, confirmed to carry out with The Killers throughout their 16-date UK area tour by June and July, with extra dwell exercise throughout the UK and Europe quickly to be introduced.

L.A. Occasions is on the market digitally, on CD and vinyl. The album can also be accessible as a restricted deluxe 2CD bundle which features a stripped-back model of the L.A. Occasions album. HMV and indie shops have a limited-edition inexperienced marble vinyl and the band’s official retailer has unique restricted yellow vinyl and merch bundles. Pre-Order right here

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