12 Memories

How can a Britpop band pass off another collection of melodic ballads without making us puke blood pudding? Travis manages this feat by tempering their earnest messages with a sly wink. So even when, on “Midlife Krysis,” they wail against a jangly backbeat, “You can’t wake from this nightmare,” you know they don’t mean it. We’re in on the joke this time.