Voted the best new band by Select magazine and championed by Oasis' Noel Gallagher as his favorite new album Travis' debut opus Good FeelingÓmakes you feel good in two completely different ways. Travis has a split personality and I like both of them.

The first half of the album is filled with exuberant up-tempo, Power pop of a kind that brings to mind Matthew Sweet or Teenage Fanclub. Given a more British bent by occasional jaunty piano chops of the sort that made Jellyfish sound Beatlesque.

The album gears way down about half way through and winds out with several terrific songs that have that plaintive melancholy feel that bears favorable comparison to the year's best album Radiohead's O.K. Computer. The good thing about Good Feeling is that after you stop playing "name that influence" you realize, "hey these are great songs, and this guy sings the hell out of them."

High among my top picks for the year, this one would have slipped by me altogether if it weren't for the ever-vigilant Adam Mast (local guru of all things musical and cinematic). I have a good feeling you're not going to find this one at K-Mart, but seek it out, it'll be worth the effort.