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Travis' Fran Healy on Their New Album L.A. Times and Gaslight Culture

Travis’ Fran Healy joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the Scottish band’s new album, L.A. Times. Listen to the conversation now.

The frontman discusses how and why Los Angeles became the thematic center of the band's new set of songs, explaining how the city functions as a coal miner's canary for the state of the world. He then touches on the amount of cursing in the title track, as well as how the cover art continues a visual motif that has spanned several of their records.

Elsewhere, Healy talks of the pitfalls of social media, gaslighting culture, and how the biggest pop stars manipulate…

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