Title: Where do bands like this come from?
Review: I'm consistently staggered by the way Gomez refuse to get stuck in any one genre, and still manage always to sound like themselves. Yes, there's a slightly heavier dose of electronica on this record, but Gomez have beeing threatening to go that route since the very beginning -- remember the wheezy synthetic drum bit on "Whippin' Piccadilly," off the band's first record? And in any case, "electronica," in Gomez's able young hands, doesn't mean "soulless." "Rex Kramer" may start off sounding like DISCO, but once Ben Ottewell's chesty roar kicks in, it's blood-n-guts time."In Our Gun" collapses the last twenty years of pop music into one record. Listen with headphones. Several times. Then watch the papers for word of a U.S. tour -- they are, if you can believe this, even better live.
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