Swing Out Sister ----- It's Better To Travel

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On 11 May 1987, Swing Out Sister released their debut studio album, 'It's Better To Travel'. The title for the album was derived from a quote by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson: "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." Upon its release, the album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.

Melody Maker's Caroline Sullivan described the songs as "spanking, sparkling, radio-friendly little tunes, dressed up in some Dagworthy/Galliano fashionwear and committed to vinyl by a good-looking girl and two male partners." The NME's Lucy O'Brien noted a "lush, laidback funky mix with nifty horn section" and wrote that "it should be less a case of Swing than Break Out Sister." Both reviews, in their different registers, register the album's slightly paradoxical quality: effortful but appearing effortless, sophisticated but entirely accessible. The closing Theme (From 'It's Better to Travel'), an instrumental, was the kind of flourish that announced a group taking its own musicality more seriously than the pop format usually demands.