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| Released | August 20, 1996 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 40:32 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
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Travel On, Rider is the fifth studio album by American rock band Scrawl, released on August 20, 1996. [1] It was the band's major-label debut, on Elektra Records. It was produced by Steve Albini and Jeff Powell. [2] As of August 1998, the album has sold 2,115 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [3]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
| The Boston Phoenix | [5] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide |  [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| Rolling Stone | [8] |
In a favorable review, Gina Arnold wrote that "although Travel On, Rider...is by far the best album of [Scrawl's] career, it is also the band's most difficult." She also described the album as "the Ladies to the [Afghan] Whigs' 1993 tour de force Gentlemen . [9] Andy Kellman of AllMusic gave Travel On, Rider 3 and a half stars out of 5, writing, "Without sacrificing the band's rough edges, Steve Albini's and Jeff Powell's recording and engineering give the band it's [sic] most polished sound yet, but it doesn't make their songs -- still bitter, still pessimistic, still sad -- suffer for it." [4]
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