Artist: Gomez
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Split The Difference
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Live At The Wireless
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
In Our Gun
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
The British dance orchestra Gomez is a five-piece, consisting of Ben Ottewell (vocals, guitar), Tom Gray (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Paul Blackburn (bass, guitar), Olly Peacock (drums), and Ian Ball (vocals, guitar, mouth harp). Whereas the bulk of up-and-coming British bands ar either retro-pop (Ã la Oasis), trip-hop (Portishead), or infinite john Rock (the Verve, Radiohead), Gomez is unitary of the few to comprise bluesy elements in their rock'n'roll. Their debut for Virgin Records, Bring It On, was praised in the rock iron on both sides of the Atlantic. They too received the magisterial Mercury Music Prize for 1998 Album of the Year in England, where they cutting out such stiff contention as Massive Attack's Mezzanine and the Verve's Urban Hymns. They completed their inauguration U.S. tour opening for Eagle-Eye Cherry in October 1998, spell the iron still offered kudos -- Spin magazine called Bring It On "a darned beautiful album," giving it an eight-out-of-ten rating. Fluid Skin followed in 1999 and the rarities and B-sides compilation Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline was issued a class later. A third base studio album, In Our Gun, appeared in spring 2002. Another hiatus power saw Ian Ball relocating to Los Angeles, spell still on the job with the band at their new studio apartment in Portslade, England. The stacks of tracks recorded during this time were whittled down and fashioned into Split the Difference, released in May of 2004. By that time, Hut, their original pronounce, had at peace under, leaving them signed to Virgin (Hut's distributor). Despite all the critical acclaim, sales were ne'er up to what Virgin was expecting from Gomez, and the deuce sides parted shipway afterwards that year. In 2005, they signed with ATO Records and released Extinct West, Gomez's first bouncy album, in June of that class. How We Operate arrived in May 2006, and the stria rounded out the yr by aggregation a retrospective collection of singles, rarities, and unreleased tracks for Basketball team Men in a Hut: Singles 1998-2004.
