With guitar bands' circumstances currently reduced, it's sobering to think that Travis's 1999 album, The Man Who, shifted 2.7m copies in the UK on the back of gently melodic singles such as Why Does It Always Rain on Me? Rather than haul in Brian Eno and try to reinvent themselves à la Coldplay, their first album in five years returns to that successful formula. "Why did we wait so long?" asks Fran Healy, not unreasonably, as choruses swell and plangent guitars waft in. Healy's trademark wistfulness drives the haunting, piano-driven Boxes, about how humans spend most of their lives in containers of one sort or another, while Another Guy edges into Beck territory, and On My Wall and Warning Sign's REMesque harmonies recall Travis's earlier, rockier incarnation. While nothing sounds destined for the ubiquity that once allowed them to stage a famous Top of the Pops food fight for 2001's Sing, the fanbase will be overjoyed to have them back.