Multi-platinum selling Scottish rockers Travis have revealed ‘Sing (Live)‘, taken from the band’s forthcoming Record Store 2023 release, The Invisible Band (Live). The album will be dropped as a special one-off live album on vinyl on April 22nd and across streaming services on April 21st via Craft Recordings.
“If ‘The Invisible Band’ was a house, ‘Sing’ would be the front door,” Fran Healy said of the track. “It was originally called ‘Swing’. I was pivoting between ‘Swing’ and ‘Sing’, never before has so much rested on a W. It could all have been so different. It’s such a breezy, easy song to sing and all these years later, it still feels fresh as the day we first played it.” Listen to ‘Sing (Live)’ HERE.
Recorded live at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on May 22nd 2022 during their celebrated The Invisible Band in Concert anniversary dates, the live album sees the art school band play the seminal album front to back for the first time ever.
“Playing The Invisible Band live was a lot of fun. There are so many memories folded into these songs for us and for everyone who came to the shows,” Fran Healy said of the album. “The tracklisting on this album worked really great live so we decided to record and film the final show in Glasgow. There is always a chance I’ll get a sore throat when I know there is a taping coming up, but thankfully it all went without a hitch. I think it was the best we played the album that night.“
Released for the only time on vinyl for RSD 2023, this special 2-LP package comes on clear vinyl in a gatefold sleeve and includes exclusive unseen photography from Ryan Johnston. Pay a visit to your local independent record shop on Record Store Day (Saturday 22nd April) for the chance to purchase – list of participating shops HERE. The album will also be released across streaming services on April 21st. Pre-save HERE.
Returning to the studio with The Man Who‘s co-producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck, Paul McCartney) for The Invisible Band, Travis crafted a near-perfect 45-minute album praised by Q magazine for having some of ‘the best and most fully crafted’ songs of their career to date.
Lead single ‘Sing‘ remains the band’s highest-charting single in the UK (No.3), while its follow-ups, ‘Side‘ and ‘Flowers In The Window’, saw the band consolidate their indie-pop formula, helping The Invisible Band to match its predecessor’s No.1 position in the UK album chart, while taking Travis into the US Top 40 and Top 10 in Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Italy and Norway.
