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My voice lends itself to Americana almost immediately, it has that kind of feel to it. Totally unintentional, it’s just the way I sing,” says Ottewell on the line from his Brighton home accompanied by his dog. There were a lot of big, brilliant records in the late-90s, but the truth is that we were very much living in a post- OK Computer world. There was] the pop writing and there was my voice. If you had Steve [Mason] from The Beta Band singing a couple of our songs it would have been seen in a very different way.”

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We were able to get them and process them all at the same time. I think that had a lot to do with how we approached music. We were just great consumers of music basically, and we had the opportunity to listen to all this stuff.”

Any British indie band with a remotely broad musical vision was expected to deliver the next classic to compete with Radiohead's beast, even though it should have been obvious that it wasn't going to happen. Unfortunately for Gomez, Virgin/EMI closed down Hut Recordings and, having had such a strong bond to their friends at the label, the band asked to be released from their contract and Virgin agreed. Gomez Get Fabulous for Philips Advertisement". Rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009 . Retrieved 18 April 2014. Vocalist/guitarist] Ian [Ball] is the archivist in a way, because he has all the tapes. His dad had them in a box, all the tapes with the old demos, even pre-studio. So, he has a whole wealth of stuff and he has just gone through it. To be honest, there’s a few things, like the song ‘Throwing Myself Away’ that I had just forgotten about. I listen and think, ‘That’s a good song,’ with no recollection of ever doing it, not even halfway through the song. We were just producing so much stuff,” Ottewell adds, speaking of the wealth of material they had. In the wake of the Mercury Music Prize winning debut Bring It On (1998), the five-piece were caught up in a wave of momentum and given the freedom and tools to build on their bedroom aesthetic. Although, many of the tunes came from the same process as the debut, Liquid Skin is a more ambitious, more eccentric, “less pop and less innocent” take on their blues-influenced sound.

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Based on the strength of the demos the band had made, their label let them self-produce their next album. [4] Sessions for it began at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool in August 1998. [5] By November 1998, the band were working at Abbey Road Studios, where they recorded strings, before moving to a mansion near Hastings. Guitarist Ian Ball said they moved so that they would be able to "recreate the home-recorded sound of the first album, but in grander surroundings". [6] [7] They took a break to play a US tour with Mojave 3 in April and May 1999. [8] [9] [10] Gomez had collectively recorded 32 songs during the recording sessions; they had finished in June 1999. [11] [12] Composition and lyrics [ edit ] Gomez - [Bring It On - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Disc1) 2008] Here Comes The Breeze (5:29) It remains the best song on the album, and perhaps the best song Gomez ever recorded. And that moment, just a handful of seconds, provides such an immense peak that it gives me chills just thinking about it.

With Bring It On it worked so well and people genuinely were overjoyed for us to be playing that record. I think it meant a hell of a lot to a lot of people. It was nice for use to revisit it. I think it’s rekindled something,” ponders Ottewell. “Just getting together over that music and remembering those times a bit, was an overwhelmingly positive thing. Those gigs were some of the best that we have ever done and we’ve done probably, upwards of a thousand now together. The band moved on too. They kept making records and playing a bit, but there were other projects on the boil. Since 2020, Tom Gray has been lobbying the British government to regulate music streaming with his Broken Record campaign group. Pryor, Sally (10 November 2019). "Listening to Gomez' Liquid Skin 20 years on is a real nostalgia trip". The Canberra Times. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021 . Retrieved 30 July 2021.a b c d e "Sorted Foe E, Whizz, Hash, H, Acid, Ketamine and Viagra". NME. 17 May 1999. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021 . Retrieved 29 July 2021. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline British sales certification". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 20 February 2008 . Retrieved 18 January 2009. a b c Kot, Greg (14 October 1999). "Gomez: Liquid Skin". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007 . Retrieved 16 August 2021. Live Nation Store". Shop.musictoday.com. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008 . Retrieved 15 May 2012. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline and Five Men in a Hut: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.