Former Supergrass Frontman Gaz Coombes Reveals Details Of Debut Solo Album 'Here Come The Bombs'
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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After six successful albums with Supergrass (including the Number One debut ‘I Should Coco’), Gaz Coombes has announced he will release his debut solo album ‘Gaz Coombes Presents… Here Come The Bombs’ on 21st May.
Produced alongside Sam Williams, with whom Coombes first worked with on ‘I Should Coco’, ‘Here Come The Bombs’ represents a continuation of his day-to-day life in music. Recorded at Coombes’s home studio and at Williams’s Temple Studio, both in Oxford, the album explores the unexpected whilst maintaining the famous love of melody that marked some of Supergrass’s finest moments.
Opening with the ethereally dreamy ‘Bombs’, the album continues with Coombes’s sonic experimentations: the exuberant ‘Break The Silence’, ‘Fanfare’ sees Coombes experimenting with rhythmic, near spoken vocals, while the closing track ‘SleepingGiant’ finds his vocals drifting through a cinematic, sci-fi induced soundscape.
“In a band, when you get a group of people who are walking the same path, it can be the most beautiful thing,” explains Coombes. “But with this I felt it was really focused on just what I wanted to get across, and on my inspirations – they were all my things that I’m into, whether it’s film, film soundtrack, or past artists that we didn’t really look at much in Supergrass. That was all really exciting. This is a completely blank page in a blank book, ready to be written on.”
Check out a little taster of what’s to come on 'Here Come The Bombs', in the form of a lyric video for album track 'Sub-Divider' below. You can also download the track at both Gaz's Official Facebook Page and website www.gazcoombes.com.
‘Here Come The Bombs’ will be introduced by lead single ‘Hot Fruit’ which will be released on 14th May.
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