Review: Travels - S/T

Posted on 21 November 2007 | 1 Comment

Do you like darkly sunny lo-fi bedroom indie pop-tronica? If no, you can stop reading now. If yes (or if you’re feeling a bit adventurous) you might really enjoy the self-titled album from Travels. Travels is the duo of Mona Elliott (of Victory At Sea) and Anar Badalov (of Metal Hearts). The two met and fell in love as their bands toured Europe together last year and decided to make a record. The resulting collection of songs is intimate, passionate, and is the musical equivalent to a warm and fuzzy patchwork quilt that makes you cozy and just feels like home. It is mood music.

I can even picture Anar and Mona sitting together playing these songs with only the warm light of a fireplace illuminating them; instruments in hand, red wine glowing on the table beside them. As shadows dance around the room their voices, their racing hearts, and their songs become one. Travels is a little like that. Despite many of the individual sounds on the album sounding poorly-recorded, the whole of the album has a charming quality rather than just simply being bad. Perhaps everything about Anar & Mona is that way. They did draw a giraffe on the package the Travels CD they sent came in and my daughter really liked that. The record is self-released.

MP3 | Travels – Golden Sun S/T
MP3 | Travels – The Smell Of Kerosene S/T

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