Gum - Glamorous Damage (Vinyl)
It’d be easy for Jay Watson’s solo project, Gum to be dwarfed by his involvement with Australia’s psych-rock poster boys Pond and Tame Impala, easy, but not fair. The comparisons write themselves, but his second record under the moniker, Glamorous Damage, doesn’t attempt to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the grandiose acidity of his various other projects.
Watson knows that his atmospheric, reflective songwriting has to be a modest constituent in any Pond record, but here his haziness doesn’t have to be chopped up and contextualized within a psych rock opus; for the most part he manages to downscale without downgrading. On “She Never Make to Tell,” winding, phasered synths near-mask a repetitious organ melody whereas “Television Sick” is more of an 8-Bit Nile Rodgers. Glamorous Damage doesn’t want to be cinematic or salient, and is all the more memorable for it.
Tracklist:
G.U.M 0:28
Anesthetized Lesson 2:45
Glamorous Damage 1:34
Notorious Gold 4:51
Elafonissi Blue 4:16
Television Sick 3:13
New Eyes 5:13
R.Y.K 5:23
Science Fiction 3:59
Ancients 4:00
Greens And Blues 3:22
She Never Made It To Tell 4:43
Carnarvon 1:36
It’d be easy for Jay Watson’s solo project, Gum to be dwarfed by his involvement with Australia’s psych-rock poster boys Pond and Tame Impala, easy, but not fair. The comparisons write themselves, but his second record under the moniker, Glamorous Damage, doesn’t attempt to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the grandiose acidity of his various other projects.
Watson knows that his atmospheric, reflective songwriting has to be a modest constituent in any Pond record, but here his haziness doesn’t have to be chopped up and contextualized within a psych rock opus; for the most part he manages to downscale without downgrading. On “She Never Make to Tell,” winding, phasered synths near-mask a repetitious organ melody whereas “Television Sick” is more of an 8-Bit Nile Rodgers. Glamorous Damage doesn’t want to be cinematic or salient, and is all the more memorable for it.
Tracklist:
G.U.M 0:28
Anesthetized Lesson 2:45
Glamorous Damage 1:34
Notorious Gold 4:51
Elafonissi Blue 4:16
Television Sick 3:13
New Eyes 5:13
R.Y.K 5:23
Science Fiction 3:59
Ancients 4:00
Greens And Blues 3:22
She Never Made It To Tell 4:43
Carnarvon 1:36
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