They don't lack emotion necessarily, but there aren't any explosive fits of rage that you would expect from Radiohead. Their sound is reminiscent of many groups, and they've obviously been influenced by some of them, yet they don't come off as a cover band by any means. They have their own sound and don't stray from it. The lyrics are typically about love, growing old and the problems with society. There is a sense of an impending breakdown, though.
Many songs feel like they are building up to something that's never quite reached.
Perhaps it's the nature of the subject-matter, but there isn't any resolution and sometimes very little progress in many of Travis' songs, which most listeners tend to listen for. For the fourth year now, the Image, Movement, and Sound Festival has impressed both area students and families. Featuring faculty and students from the Eastman School of Music, SUNY College at Brockport Department of Dance and Rochester Institute of Technology Film, Video, and Animation Department, the festival combined video, dance, and live and pre-recorded music to make a unique and matchless performance. Held on Sunday, Apr. 16 in the Hartwell Dance Theater, tickets quickly sold out and the theatre was full. Throughout the peformances, large video screens projected sometimes bright, colorful and at times dark, eerie images often of environmental ideas and concepts.