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...their songwriting habits, Tom Gray, singer and multi-instrumentalist with the band said, “Imagine any possible permutation or combination with four or five songwriters and three singers, and we’ve done that.” When Bring It On came out, it was soon branded “American sounding.” “Well, that’s rock and roll isn’t it? I suppose it’s an American invention,” said Gray. “Everyone expected us to sound like an indie band...
...third show in a month long tour of the US, the three singers adopted different onstage roles: Ben Ottewell, center stage, was tall and aloof, eye-closed-crooning and occasionally howling into the microphone; Ball was a wiry dynamo, leaning into his mic and moshing at every opportunity. Gray often had little to do until the signature screwball breaks in the songs and consequently acted as a cheerleader for the crowd, exhorting them to greater feats of whooping and bouncing. As he came forward to sing “Sound of Sounds,” the closest thing Gomez...
Gomez’s set drew substantially on their most recent album and despite the complex layers of loops and samples that underpin many of their songs, their performance was seamless. “We used to be a lot more messy,” Gray claimed. “The show has gotten much tighter since our early days.” Both Gray and Ball disavow any knowledge of the mess of buttons and samplers that sit behind drummer Olly Peacock onstage, from whence come the skittish beat of “Detroit Swing 66?...
This sort of hands-on anarchy is perhaps the closest thing Gomez have to a “signature sound.” They have always self-produced their albums, a fact which Gray says has contributed to their independence of record company whims and standards. Rumor has it that the sessions for Liquid Skin saw them singing through toilet rolls as well as underwater, while the album take of “Get Miles” is the second time they ever attempted the song, after the first take had to be abandoned when a microphone fell...
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