Album review: Gomez
Facts about this album: * Gomez are Ian Ball, Ben Ottewell, Tom Gray, Paul Blackburn and Olly Peacock, originally from Southport. * 'A New Tide' is their sixth album. Album review: You remember Gomez, winners of the 1998 Mercury Music...
Gomez : Sound Of Sounds
Gomez . Oh, Gomez . What is there to say about Gomez ? They had one good song, ever, called ‘Whippin’ Picadilly’. They like to smoke cannabis. They’re more interesting than Haven. And... oh, Jesus, we’re running out of steam here....
Gomez : In Our Gun
Mercury winners, critically derided outsiders, prematurely bewhiskered godfathers of the New Acoustic Movement - Gomez have certainly taken a bizarre backwards route to platinum-selling success. The good news for die-hards is that, on their...
Gomez : Shot Shot
Within the first 40 seconds of this single, there’s a theremin wail, a screaming saxophone and a whole range of pseudo-Western percussion noises that bump and grind in the background like they’re engrossed in an other-worldly conversation....
Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline
The first track is called 'Shitbag 9' . The second, 'Bring Your Lovin' Back Here' . Maybe it's the juxtaposition, maybe it's just that apostrophe, but those titles alone say more about Gomez than Ben Ottewell pumped full of truth serum ever...
Manchester Apollo
Death and bills apart, it's the one thing in life that's guaranteed. It's human nature to believe the grass is greener on the other side, to spend so long pondering the opposite situation, we forget to enjoy the tangible here and now. It's a...
London Islington Red Eye
Call it the Gomez effect, if you like, but everyone in the know wants to be a gnarled 53-year-old rolling tobacco on a porch in balmy Texas heat. This time, blues is truly the new black. Of all the bands catching on to this,...
Leicester De Montfort University
The show lasts for one hour and 45 minutes tonight. During that time, Gomez play 13 songs. During one of many desperate mental drives to the bowels of distraction, you start working out that's around eight minutes per song. I hesitate to...
Liquid Skin
Two-thousand AD, then: with three months to go and despite scientists' best efforts, it looks like we won't be gliding around in hovercars, taking our food in pill form, nipping off to Mars for a summer break or listening to Japanese techno for...
Gomez : Bring it on
A spirited gumbo is cooked up by the blues-fixated lads on this, the first single from their eagerly-awaited new LP. Beginning with a snaking guitar riff, Ben Ottewell 's mournful growl sheds a strange glow in this murky and psychedelic Delta...
