Lightning Review: Gomez – “Whatever’s on Your Mind”

There are severely conflicting views on this album in the music press.  The usual suspects balk at the album’s deceptively light feeling and accuse the band of going soft lyrically. I don’t agree at all but I’m not here to refute those claims as I feel most music critics belong under the category, “those that…

Doves and Gomez Lightning Reviews

I used to run a site that did nothing but CD reviews.  I loved it at the time and I had more time to really keep up with it and dig in.  Also, I wasn’t faced with the glut of music that I am now.  Yes, I’m complaining that I have too much music to…

New Gomez Song

This morning, a bouncy, gritty, distorted, glitchy pop song was born on the Gomez web site.  It’s called “Airstream Driver” and, if I have to classify it, I’d say it fits somewhere between “In Our Gun” and “Split the Difference” in style.  But I’ve only listened to it once and Gomez is a tough band…