Liquid Skin

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It's also very possibly the definitive Gomez track, encapsulating their spirit and approach in just over 4 minutes. Perhaps “We Haven’t Turned Around,” an overblown orchestral power ballad that sounds better in sequence in the middle of the LP than it does by its lonesome, was too ambitious a choice of single. It was also just post-Britpop, which also gave the public a certain perception of what a British rock band would sound like at the time. With only 518 days separating debut album Bring It On and Liquid Skin, the band were clearly not short of material. The band's first four studio albums and Five Men in a Hut: A's, B's and Rarities 1998–2004, were collected together as 5 Album Set in 2012.

The first time I heard Gomez I was driving to a Pearl Jam concert in Wisconsin with my friend Sarah.Because of this, Gomez were always hard to categorize, a fact that, despite their popularity, gave the UK press pause to go on the attack. Indeed, it’s an album that takes repeated hearings to fully appreciate, and even then, the elusive nature found in this occasionally awkward set of songs kept any familiarity factor slightly out of reach.

Nostalgia has brought the excitement of old back around for both fans and the band, starting with the lavish reissue of debut Bring It On in 2018 and a subsequent tour.They were caught in a hard place, too traditionalist to appeal to snobs and too creative and quirky to go mainstream. That said, several of the songs seem to simply drift along, catching the listener’s ear almost by chance and enticing them to come along.

Sensing success, the band released its sophomore set Liquid Skin less than a year and a half after their initial outing. Get Miles” is the Gomez pitch in a nutshell; it’s a swamp blues with a penetrating analog synth hook sung out of the park by Ben Ottewell, who does a frighteningly good approximation of Howlin’ Wolf for a nebbish with glasses who’s a dead ringer for the actor David (Michael Bolton) Herman. Las Vegas Dealer" begins as a psychedelic piece and vocal harmonies in the vein of the Moody Blues, before incorporating Eastern rhythms. A heavily fuzzed-out guitar adds a thick texture in the background as the band launch into another chorus.

They weren't typical rock songs with regular arrangements and catchy choruses, nor were they so wildly experimental, indulgent and complex that they became impenetrable to the average listener. The composition of the song was completed while backstage during a show with Mojave 3 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. Out West is a reasonably representative live album recorded at the Fillmore, which became their American home base.