{"product_id":"mojave-3-excuses-for-travellers-2026-remaster-vinyl","title":"Pre-Order 24\/07\/26 - Mojave 3: Excuses For Travellers - 2026 Remaster (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"full\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h8OnjYTl2xk?si=5Of1SHdQ7fn-dYjP\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (24\/07\/26)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMojave 3’s founding members are vocalist \/ guitarist Neil Halstead, bassist \/ vocalist Rachel Goswell, and drummer Ian McCutcheon. The band broke cover in 1995, when a six-track demo impressed 4ad sufficiently to offer them a deal, despite a then-prevailing musical climate of bumptious Britpop that seemed totally at odds with what Mojave 3 were doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir incongruence was hardly surprising given that Halstead, Goswell and McCutcheon had formed as members of definitive shoegazers Slowdive, while guitarist Simon Rowe had previously served with dreampop kindred spirits Chapterhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMojave 3’s debut, \u003cem\u003eAsk Me Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, was a refreshingly stripped down collection that changed little from the original demos. Halstead’s melodic, folk- and country-tinged songs drew favourable (if lazy) comparisons to Nick Drake, Cowboy Junkies and Bob Dylan. Three years later, \u003cem\u003eOut Of Tune\u003c\/em\u003e continued where the first album left off and showed a group that had grown in both confidence and cohesiveness. Third album \u003cem\u003eExcuses For Travellers\u003c\/em\u003e contained some of the most ambitious Halstead compositions yet. \u003cem\u003eSpoon And Rafter\u003c\/em\u003e followed three years later marking another shift for the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile still containing echoes of singer-songwriters and alt-country, the record represents a technicolour expansion of their palette that utilizes electronics, glockenspiels, melodica, and Beatlesque production. Their final album, 2006’s \u003cem\u003ePuzzles Like You\u003c\/em\u003e is a positively bright and fun record that feels right at home next to indie rock contemporaries like The Shins and Band of Horses, while sounding nearly unrecognisable next to the band they were on \u003cem\u003eAsk Me Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the band returning to London to work and live at the famed Fortress studios, \u003cem\u003eExcuses For Travellers\u003c\/em\u003e was the first of two consecutive albums recorded with the help of friend and electronic artist Mark Van Hoen. Combining the melancholy and stripped-down intimacy of \u003cem\u003eAsk Me Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e and the Laurel Canyon soul of \u003cem\u003eOut Of Tune\u003c\/em\u003e, it finds the band refining their touch to create a more cohesive record that rightfully sits at the middle of their ever-morphing sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With \u003cem\u003eOut Of Tune\u003c\/em\u003e I was sort of obsessing a little too much over Bob Dylan and Neil Young,” says Neil, “whereas on \u003cem\u003eExcuses For Travellers\u003c\/em\u003e the influences had been absorbed a little more, and the band made it into its own thing. Mark’s production really helped as well.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLusciously textured with restrained guitar, drums, pedal steel, horns, and piano, it’s an introspective campfire record that lets Neil’s voice and songwriting take centre stage (“In Love With A View”, “My Life In Art\", “She Broke You So Softly”), while also featuring the only two Mojave tracks solely credited to Rachel (“Bringin’ Me Home”) and Ian (“Got My Sunshine”).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReflecting on his growth as a songwriter, Neil says, “Unlike Slowdive, where the music is at the forefront and nobody is focusing on what anyone's saying, you couldn’t really hide the lyrics with Mojave 3. I had to think about them more, work harder on them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack vinyl version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Love With A View\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrying To Reach You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Life In Art\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReturn To Sender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen You're Drifting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAny Day Will Be Fine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShe Broke You So Softly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrayer For The Paranoid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBringin' Me Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGot My Sunshine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"4ad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54322291867994,"sku":"4AD0828LP","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/mojave-3-excuses-travellers.jpg?v=1781676952","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/mojave-3-excuses-for-travellers-2026-remaster-vinyl","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}