Travis's self-produced fourth album, 12 Memories, is lush and gorgeous, drenched with strings and piano, which add a lazy, dreamlike quality to songs such as first single "Re-Offender" and opening track "Quicksand", and even the occasional bit of experimentation (a dog whining in the background of "Paperclips" is an appropriately creepy effect). But it's also lyrically their darkest album, ...

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It's only because A Tribe Called Quest's first two albums--People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm and The Low End Theory--are so filled with great singles that the remixes on Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller are essential listening. The songs are freed from the constraints of having to fit into the style of the rest of the album, and Tribe open up the ...

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"It's the quiet times that get you" is the starkly unsettling assertion made by a browbeaten Darren Ford on the doldrum-esque opening track to Welcome to Winners. Clearly, Lowgold's recently enforced tarriance in the pop wilderness (the band's former label Nude went belly up) has left its psychological imprint. But while the blunt and deliberately dispiriting odour of exhaustion hangs over ...

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