Jul 21

On Repeat: Gomez - "A New Tide"

I've been following the band Gomez since they "arrived" in the late 90's and I remember a concert of theirs at Slim's in San Francisco. I saw them perform songs from their first album and they ended the show with an amazing cover of the Talking Heads "Road to Nowhere". Yeah, that pretty much sealed the deal for me. I even had a chance to meet them, since I was working at SF station KFOG at the time. Nice guys, from what I remember.

It's been over 10 years since that first concert and they still pump out really worthy music. Their latest album, A New Tide doesn't disappoint. I have always loved the earthy tone of lead singer Ian Ball. The single gaining much attention is "Airstream Driver" and in a recent article out of SXSW, the drummer Olly Peacock talks about the writing process for that song.

'The lyrics for 'Airstream Driver' were actually pieced together,' Peacock says. "I'd written the song at home and I took it to the studio when we were working late at night. I needed some words, so we Googled 'Red Red Meat,' because we were working (producer) Brian Deck, who used to be in Red Red Meat. We thought just for a joke we'd take some lyrics and use them just for the time being, and in the end they were just so befitting we kept them. That was an interesting way to do a collaboration – without someone actually wanting to collaborate. The lyrics are totally obscure to others, but they fit. It was an interesting lyrical excursion.'

Check out "Airstream Driver" and another one of my favorites, "Little Pieces" and let me know what you think!

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