From his sick-bed, our commander-in-chief dished out the command to bring visual musicology to the people. Well, he didn’t word it quite so eloquently through the mild hell that is the flu. Poor dude. So I ventured out into the wild wild web to find something spectacular that you should partake of. Travis [Myspace] (the band, not some random guy) has an exceptionally captivating video out for their song “J. Smith” off the forthcoming Ode to J. Smith and you should make SMS feel better and watch it now.

Check out more of Travis including mp3s “after the jump”

This video has to be watched twice. The first time you will likely be too enthralled in what’s going to happen to this poor bastard to actually listen to the music. So when you’re done internalizing how much this would suck if it happened to you, watch it again and listen to the song which is pretty good. Simple guitar and drums crescendo with a church choir type thing. Fun times.

Travis – “J Smith”[mp3]

Bonus Track:
Travis – “Writing To Reach You” [[mp3]]

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