Thyme Travel

Thyme Travel
EP by Mansions
Released	July 2009 (2009-07)
Genre	Alternative rock, indie rock
Length	12:40
Label	Cougar Child Tapes
Mansions chronology
Manbox (2009) Thyme Travel (2009) Best of the Bees (2010)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Punknews	[1]

Thyme Travel is a rare EP released by Mansions in 2009. The music is performed primarily solo, with just vocals and an acoustic guitar. Only 190 copies were made. ^[2]

The tracks "Unwell", "All Those Dreams", and "Lost In Space" were recorded while vocalist Christopher Browder was house-sitting for his parents in Louisville, Kentucky. "Family Dinner Week" was written while Browder played in a band called "Once More". ^[3]

Reception

Because Thyme Travel was such a limited release, very few professional reviews were written about it. Punknews.org gave the EP three and a half stars out of five, saying "while the dynamic, powerful soundscape provided by producer Mike Sapone was one of the strongest points on Browder's full-length, New Best Friends, released earlier this year, Thyme Travel definitely contrasts, but not in a bad way. It seems simultaneously more organic and unintentionally reverb-y." ^[4]

Track listing

1. "Unwell" – 2:48
2. "Family Dinner Week" – 3:33
3. "All Those Dreams" – 2:50
4. "Lost in Space" - 3:29

References

1. Thyme Travel on Punknews.org.
2. "Discography". Mansionsmusic.com. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
3. "A few words about our new cassette Thyme Travel. van Mansions op Myspace". Myspace.com. July 26, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
4. Shultz, Brian (September 15, 2009). "Mansions - Thyme Travel [cassette". Punknews.org. Retrieved October 27, 2012.