To a lot of people Travis are a band who make gentle music, the kind of thing you'd put on while having a middle class dinner party.
Travis have been using traditional methods to perfect their new album
But that was then - now things are getting a bit grittier.
Back with a new album called 'Ode To J. Smith' and a new sound, it marks a different approach for the Scottish four-piece.
After an experience recording 1960s-style with former Beatles producer Geoff Emerick last year for a special project to remake The Beatles seminal album Sgt Pepper, the band decided to ditch hi-tech computers and make their new album using lo-tech magnetic tape.
The band got hold of an old 16-track tape machine from the world famous Abbey Road studios and recorded the whole album using only that.
The result is a stripped down, rockier sound, as showcased on new single Something Anything.
Frontman Fran Healy told Sky News about how the new approach made the band work in a much more focussed way.
He said: "We put all the concentration on writing and arrangements, so then when you record it, it's pretty straightforward, it's pretty simple. You make it sound like a record as you're doing it."
Travis are now on their own record label, after an amicable end to their former contract with Independiente.
Guitarist Andy Dunlop said being signed to a record label often means "there are all these people standing over your backs saying, what's that?" which he said "puts you off and makes you self-conscious".
But now they're in control of their own finances and direction: "That's the way you start in a band, just the four of you in a room together making all the decisions yourselves. What's really nice about it is there's nobody behind you, it was just us," he added.
And free from record company control, they're now able to speak freely about issues like piracy and be honest about the the so-called theft of music.
Fran thinks a lot of record companies cry-wolf about music pirates.
He says rather than killing music, piracy often helps to sell it: "Those people are actually searching for your songs, you just don't go 'click' and it's done, you've got to search for hours to find all the tracks.
"So that's someone who's a massive fan of the band who maybe can't afford the album and if they get it and it's a really good record, they'll tell all their mates it cost like 69 pence a record, I think, so you're paying them 69 pence to do the biggest promotion of all which is word of mouth."
The band's now heading off on a European tour to promote the new album.
A record some critics are already saying could be the best they've ever made.
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