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Excuses For Travellers

~ Mojave 3
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  • Audio CD (15 May 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: 4ad
  • ASIN: B00004SDQ9
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50,213 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. In Love With A View 6:09£0.79
Listen  2. Trying To Reach You 4:47£0.79
Listen  3. My Life In Art 7:21£0.79
Listen  4. Return To Sender 4:48£0.79
Listen  5. When You're Drifting 6:01£0.79
Listen  6. Any Day Will Be Fine 3:24£0.79
Listen  7. She Broke You So Softly 5:05£0.79
Listen  8. Prayer For The Paranoid 3:51£0.69
Listen  9. Bringin' Me Home 3:50£0.79
Listen10. Got My Sunshine 4:19£0.79

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Neil Halstead and his cohorts have been making their warm, winsome country dream-music since 1995, and Excuses For Travellers, their third album, is their most fully-realised yet. Each song has a quietly lush soundscape and simple poetry. "I stood at the station / With a plan and a packet of poems / Heroically tragic," sings Halstead with self-deprecating perception on the stand-out track "In Love With A View". There is a surreal folk quality to their sound, a sort of Cowboy Junkies meets Elliott Smith, particularly on the appropriately named "When You're Drifting". Here, they perfectly capture the anchorless anomie of the travelling musician. It's not all slow ballads, however, as in the driving optimism and gospel-style chorus of "Got My Sunshine", a song penned by Mojave drummer Ian McCutcheon. --Lucy O'Brien

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Mojave 3 proves what shoegazer royalty Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell's former band Slowdive hinted at all along: great songwriting speaks for itself, whether swaddled in blissed-out textures or wrapped up with pedal-steel guitar and strings. EXCUSES FOR TRAVELLERS rambles right back down the dusty trail, with another clutch of superb songs and far greater confidence.
"In Love With a View", "Prayer for the Paranoid", and "She Broke You So Softly" are the stuff of sheer,epic beauty. Mojave 3 heaps stirring choruses, soaring vocals, and bravado guitar breaks upon Halstead's poignant storysongs. Perfectly placed instrumental accents and Goswell's gossamer harmonies add further layers of loveliness. Mojave 3 does its influences proud, combining the tale-spinning craft of Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, and Jimmy Webb with Nick Drake's aching candor on "My Life in Art" and "When You're Drifting". The gently rocking "Return to Sender" and "Any Day Will Be Fine" demonstrate Halstead's uncanny knack for summoning timeless melodies from thin air. "Got My Sunshine" makes for a gorgeous, gospel-flavoured closer, though the US edition extends EXCUSES FOR TRAVELLERS with two fine B-side tracks.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamy Pop, 14 April 2004
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I've been a fan of Mojave 3 after hearing their single Return to Sender on epitonic, soon after I bought Spoon and Rafter, which coincidentally is just as good, however it was upon purchasing Excuses for Travellers, that I realised that this was their best work. Each carefully written and composed track on this album is amazing, with it's soothing melancholy feeling.

Neil Halsteads voice suits the music perfectly, it's almost effortless and flows perfectly. The opening track is a gorgeous, dreamy pop song, with its careful build-up, before simmering off at the end. There's not a great deal of musical diversity over the other albums, but, the catchy melodies persist, and nothing ever feels rushed. Take track 3, My Life as Art, one of the highlights of the album, it has one of the quietest intros, sparse guitar accompanying Halstead's whispery vocals, and the whole song has this laid-back charm.

There are some slightly more upbeat songs, such as the excellent Return to Sender, Anyday will be Fine, and Krazy Koz. Another highlight on the album is Bringing me Home, where Rachel adds the vocals, which makes a nice change, as she has an excellent voice. Mojave 3 are a dreamier Red House Painters, and Excuses for Travellers is most certainly the bands best achievement to date. If you want a record that is plaintive yet blissful, and with enough perfection to charm the birds out of the trees, then this album is a good purchase.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars possibly the best album in the world, 13 Aug 2001
Has there ever been a better album than this? Well I've listened to many and decided that there hasn't. Mojave 3 have composed such a beautiful, melancholy, caressing album, not only providing you with sounds for the soul, they also kindly throw in lines you can quote in any situation, summing up exactly how you feel. This album seems so simple, you know a lot of talent must be behind it - it makes you wish you could write stuff like this. It's just perfect, nothing to be excused.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful - It's that simple, 15 Feb 2004
Bought this having not heard of the band, having not heard one song. It is now one of my favourite albums. Simple, elegant and aching, yet hopeful. I'm not good at articulating it in context of other music and what comparisons (some say Neil Young but I've not heard much of him) to make but I can assure you that this album is worth every penny. Ten tracks is a little shy but each song is more of an opus than a 3-minute routine so it compensates. 'Prayer for the Paranoid' is the pick for me. Excellent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a beautiful album a must buy for slowdive/mojave 3 fans
even though i have the album a while now, it still gets a playing everyday, its mojave 3's third album and this is by far their best,neil halstead writing keeps getting better... Read more
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