Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travellers "Reissue" (Black Vinyl)

Remastered at Abbey Road, this 2026 reissue on black vinyl of Mojave 3’s third album, Excuses For Travellers (2000), is presented with its original artwork. Excuses For Travellers contained some of the most ambitious Halstead compositions yet. Spoon and Rafter followed three years later marking another shift for the band. While still containing echoes of singer-songwriters and alt-country, the record represents a technicolour expansion of their palette that utilises electronics, glockenspiels, melodica, and Beatlesque production.

Born from the ashes of Slowdive in 1995 by former members Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell, and newly acquired drummer Ian McCutcheon, Mojave 3 began by recording six sparse, acoustic, vocally-driven tracks that stripped away the swirling guitar distortion that had once cloaked their singing in a veil of mystery, leaving Neil and Rachel’s vocal harmonies to stand fully exposed. The six-track demo sufficiently impressed 4AD label head Ivo Watts-Russell and Mojave 3 were signed to a five-album deal, with the original demos becoming the foundation of debut album and fan favourite, Ask Me Tomorrow.