Travis is streaming its new album, The Boy With No Name, due out this Tuesday, on its MySpace page.

I picked up the CD single (for 99 cents!) for Closer, which contains two B-sides: The Day Today and This Love. I haven’t had time to fully digest it, but I’m really liking the lead single. There’s always such a hopeful exuberance about Fran Healy’s songwriting.

It’s cheesy, maybe. But it’s also a beautiful departure from the mopey, woe-is-me heartbreak.

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