Travis have released a deluxe version of their recent album ‘L.A. Times’, with 10 new and exclusive tracks.
The album, the Scottish band’s tenth full-length, was released in July, having been preceded by the singles ‘Gaslight’, ‘Bus’ and ‘Raze The Bar’. It is their first release since 2016’s ‘Everything At Once’.
The new deluxe edition includes the full album alongside intimate, stripped-back versions of all 10 album tracks. ‘L.A. Times Deluxe’ is on streaming platforms now; check out the full tracklist below.
‘L.A. Times Deluxe’ tracklist:
- ‘Bus’
- ‘Raze The Bar’
- ‘Live It All Again’
- ‘Gaslight’
- ‘Alive’
- ‘Home’
- ‘I Hope That You Spontaneously Combust’
- ‘Naked In New York City’
- ‘The River’
- ‘L.A. Times’
- ‘Bus’ (stripped)
- ‘Raze The Bar’ (stripped)
- ‘Live It All Again’ (stripped)
- ‘Gaslight’ (stripped)
- ‘Alive’ (stripped)
- ‘Home’ (stripped)
- ‘I Hope That You Spontaneously Combust’ (stripped)
- ‘Naked In New York City’ (stripped)
- ‘The River’ (stripped)
- ‘L.A. Times’ (stripped)
Shortly after the album’s official release, the group revealed that the piano used on ‘Gaslight’ was the same as the one used by The Beatles for ‘Lady Madonna’.
Travis are also preparing to head out on their UK headline tour, set to take place at the end of the year. Dates include a stop at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on December 13, as well as shows in Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Margate, Bristol, Eastbourne, Sheffield, Newcastle and Glasgow. Visit here for remaining tickets.
Those dates follow on from the group busking on the streets of London in July, as well as on a vintage double-decker bus in Glasgow before that.
Elsewhere, the band recently spoke to NME about opening for The Killers on their UK/EU tour.
“We’ve been friends for years and years now and Ronnie [Vannucci Jr.] and Brandon [Flowers] are the sweetest guys,” Healy told us. “It’s nice to be a support band again too. I love being a support band. It reminds me of when we supported Oasis [on the ‘Be Here Now’ Tour in 1997].
“We went on every single night to blow them off the stage which is what a good support band should be doing. You go on, the other band watch you from the wings going, ‘Fuck’. And then they come on and do a better show because of it.”
