With songs like "Sing" and "Why Does It Always Rain On Me", the Scottish band Travis has had hits over the past 30 years that have become classics. Singer Fran Healy (photo) and his colleagues were not grunge and not Britpop, but always Travis, melody-loving romantics who sang about life, love and misfortune with their heart and soul.
These are true stories that are packaged here in great melodies that Fran Healy then sings with passion.
With "L.A. Times", the band, which was founded in 1990, presents its tenth album, which Fran Healy believes is the most personal that the Glasgow quartet has ever created. And that's exactly how it sounds: In the gentle swell of flattering melodies, time seems to stand still.