Product Description

Gomez successfully combines the old with the new. On LIQUIDSKIN the band mixes touches of '60s psychedelia and hippie folk-rock with a gritty, angular, post-grunge alt-rock sensibility. Acoustic instruments abound, buoyed by rootsy-sounding organ and the occasional electric guitar rave-up. At times, the songs employ funky rhythms that could only have been born in the wake of hip-hop and electronica, but the lack ofelectronics and programmed rhythms makes them feel entirelyorganic. Gomez is more about songs than jams, but there is a sense of kinship to the expansive neo-stoner rock of groups like Phish and Blues Traveler. Unlike those outfits, though, Gomez retains a very British feel, whether the eclectic arrangements on LIQUID SKIN lean toward the orchestral or thepastoral.

Track Listing

1. Hangover
2. Revolutionary Kind
3. Bring It On
4. Blue Moon Rising
5. Las Vegas Dealer
6. We Haven't Turned Around
7. Fill My Cup
8. Rhythm And Blues Alibi
9. Rosalita
10. California
11. Devil Will Ride

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9985 in Music
• Released on: 1999-09-13
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
"I'm not worried about your state of mind, 'cause you're not the revolutionary kind," croons Ben Ottewell, Gomez's gravel-voiced singer on "Revolutionary Kind", but indeed, it's precisely this attitude that mobilises Gomez's harshest critics. Essentially, Liquid Skin is the same album as 1998's Mercury Music Prize-winning Bring It On--a potent hallucinogenic stew of Deep-Southern folk, blues, and country music played by--and here's the galling point--five white students from the North of England, graverobbing music's past without a new idea between them. There's an air of "having a laugh" that makes Gomez sometimes seem invitingly punchable, but all the same, it would be churlish to deny Liquid Skin praise for its joyfully lackadasical approach to rootsy excavation. They've even gained praise in US alt-country periodical No Depression, which is usually suspicious of outright fakery elbowing in on its genre, so there's clearly something in the plush, casual Americana of "Rhythm & Blues Alibi" and the acidic glide of "California" to endear it to the purists. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

They've Done It Again!
Bring it on was an incredible debut from Gomez. Most bands fail to match or exceed expectations in this scenario, and Gomez, in my opinion are no exception.. But they have come so darn close, and have stepped in a different direction, which is probably what baited the critics.

It's not an album you can get into straight away, and as I always say, the best albums always take many many listens to appreciate to their entirety.

We haven't and still won't get another indie album that rivals the quality of this or 'Bring It On' for a long time to come.

one of the best albums i posess.
I am not sure why people pair up bring it on with liquid skin...there is hardly a song on liquid skin which would have ever fitted on bring it on.This album has harmonic genius throughout and the rhythmic experimentation, such as the 5/4 experiment of las vegas dealer, just adds an incredible dimension to Gomez. This album has a much fresher sound than bring it on did, it sounds like gomez are more happy, this album radiates a feeling of musical assuredness from gomez. seldom have i heard an album this well-rounded. An absolutely MASSIVE step away from the bring it on sound, and it's bloody brilliant.

they're capable of so much more
This is a terrible album compared to their debut Bring It On (which I would give 5 stars). Occasionally I give it a listen in a vain attempt to convince myself it's not so bad, but really it fails to capture your attention like Bring It On did. It sounds tired in comparison, lacking in ideas and emotion. The highlights for me are Blue Moon Rising and Rhythm and Blues Aliby. But really I think they were smoking too many bongs when they made this album.