Track Listing

1. Shot shot
2. Rex Kramer
3. Detroit swing 66
4. In our gun
5. Even song
6. Ruff stuff
7. Sound of sounds
8. Army dub
9. Miles End
10. Ping one down
11. 1000 times
12. Drench
13. Ballad of nice and easy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28535 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The third album proper from the most inventive British band of the past five years, In Our Gun is bang on target and brilliantly off kilter. Gomez create new musical hybrids every time they hunker down in the musical laboratory. Since emerging from Southport with the Mercury Prize-winning debut Bring It On in 1998, the self-produced five-piece have created their own rules. What's miraculous about their follow up to Liquid Skin is that it manages to advance on the manic diversity of its predecessors. Gomez are a unique band--they have three distinctive vocalists in Ben Ottewell, Ian Ball and Tom Gray and an ever fizzling chemistry where every member is made to count. The resulting emotional and musical palette is vast, encompassing epic grandeur and lucid intimacy; tenderness and anger. A quick check of their armoury reveals Beefheart-ian blues, a beautifully cantankerous horn section, Mariachi melodies, euphoric harmony vocals, blasting hip-hop beats, slide guitar that sounds like it's come up the Mersey via the Mississippi... and that's just for starters. Resistance to their Gun is futile, but rest assured surrender is bliss. --Gavin Martin

CD Description
Third album from Southport five piece and the follow up to 1999's 'Liquid Skin'. 'In Our Gun' was recorded and producedby the Mercury Prize winning band themselves and features the single 'Shot Shot'.

Customer Reviews

A tighter play makes for endless listening
Bring It On was an incredible introduction to Gomez with its quirky ups and downs and spine-tingling Ottewell vocals. Liquid Skin was a great follow-up with Gomez bringing on the long jams. With In Our Gun, Gomez shows us how well they can clean-up.

The songs are so tight and pieced together perfectly that you can listen to "Sound of Sounds" over and over for the harmonies as much as you want--it doesn't drag on and ends where it should. There is no need to put your finger on the fast forward button here. The same goes for every other song on the album. "Army Dub" gets your heart pounding and imbeds the melody in your brain for the following 72 hours. How many more times can I listen to "Rex Kramer?"

Being a Gomez loyal, I've been foaming at the mouth for something new and the wait was completely worth it. Nonstop listening has been my guilty pleasure since I got it. (Now if I could only see them live.)

Just superb up-to-date guitar music
The way this seems to go is - you either love Gomez's old stuff, and hate this because you feel that this is a departure,
or, you love Gomez's old stuff and feel that this is the next logical step.
I'm in the latter category - all the albums before (even the b-sides and oddities) were just brilliant - but all the ideas on Gun are there - the electronica, drum machine etc. There's nothing massively new in this. It's more catchy, definitely, and possibly the grit has gone from the earlier recordings, but as far as dragging guitar music into the present is concerned, Gomez are peerless (maybe Radiohead are up there, but they're using fewer and fewer guitars all the time).
Every track on this album drips with feeling, soul, intelligence and warmth. Not to say that the mood isn't varied, because it runs the gamut.
Simply - if you like soulful but modern music, then this is a great antidote to the terrible, TERRIBLE bland r&b dross which seems to permeate modern music...

gomez find new sound; keep old
Gomez have created quite a clever album here; it is true that whatever they write will be good because they have the power and the ideas to carry it off, but this is particularly fine. It carries that new, punchy, almost over-mastered quality which is reminiscent of the new Eels release 'Souljacker' last year. Those Gomez fans who liked the Machismo EP will enjoy more of the same, with the old sound of Pick Up The Pieces and Step Inside thrown in for good measure. Those of you who remember Gomez as 'that band that sang that song about Piccadilly' then approach this with an open mind; it's not that you missed out of the evolution of Gomez - they just move very quickly.