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  • Audio CD (13 Sep 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Hut
  • ASIN: B00001IVIU
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Mini-Disc  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,914 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  2. Revolutionary Kind 4:33£0.69
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"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


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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.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the real mccoy!!!!!!, 28 Mar 2004
By Proudmomofagayson (Berkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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Having been quite scathing of UK bands and particularly of the 'music of today' I came to this album with some reservation and trepidation but boy was I wrong? These guys are the real deal, the real mccoy. Embrace are often talked about in almost hushed reverential tones as the purveyors of Britpop and I can see why. This is not Britpop. This is Southern-fried, gently flowing, ambient Blues a la early-Little Feat. That is no exaggeration. I can actually hear Lowell George in this chap's vocal delivery. Blimey, this is England for bodsakes!!! What's going on? Can music be this good? Yes it can. At no point do I feel they are robbing from this great music, they are adding to it and enhancing it.

Imagine it's the late-60's and California's bands had somehow sheared off and gone in a slightly different direction, gaining hindsight of what was to follow and then creating their own way of doing things, you would be close to what Gomez are doing with Liquid Skin. I love this album. It's dreamy, wonderfully presented, faithful to the influences but forward-thinking enough that people in 30 years will look back with fondness at what they are doing. Forget the rip-off that Paul Weller is and listen to this band. A classic!

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Why Gomez are the best band, 10 Jul 2002
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I find it wierd that the review for this record states that Gomez five members don't have "an original idea between them" whilst that for new album "In Our Gun" calls them the most inventive British band of the past decade. Wierd.

Which is nearer the truth I couldn't possibly say. Certainly Gomez are unlike anyone I come across today in my adventures in building a record collection, but then every band is influenced by other bands before them. The only way not to be would be to write a record having heard no music before ever.

No, what is called originality today is when bands mix influences. And what I hear from the 3 Gomez records is that they do just this, and they are particularly good at it. Blues, country, cool jazz and good old southern rock and as many other influences are here in varying measures making each track sound different but unmistakably Gomez. There are also some fantastic arrangements, aswell as one of the best vocal parts around today (although I can see that Ben Ottewell's gravel voice is an acquired taste).

The end results is a laid back, bluesy, record that grows on you no end until you cant get them out of your head. Best tracks for me are "revolutionary kind", "we haven't turned around", "rhythm and blues alibi" and the epic "California". I'd recommend it to all who like their music laid back, quirky enough to keep your attention but not too quirky to alienate everyone, and who has a weakness for the blues. Great Stuff.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The most inventive British band?, 14 Jun 2001
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There really is something for everyone on this record. From the quasi-flamenco on Rosalita, to the poppy Rhythm and Blues Alibi, to the driving rock in California. It buzzes with life, the playing is excellent all round and the joy of hearing not 1, but 3, good singers is exceptional. It doesn't hit you with quite the same exuberance as Bring It On, but is every bit as durable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best albums i posess.
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Published on 6 Oct 2007 by L. Webb

2.0 out of 5 stars 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,... Read more
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i have had this and the other gomez cd since their release dates. while the first album took time to really sink in. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great, great album
This has to be one of the greats. You couldn't get better songs than there are on this album 'Rhythm 'n' blues alibi' is amazing and the harmonising at the start of 'Bring it on'... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars As close to perfection as you can get!
This C.D. I think is only just better than Gomez's first album which I thought could never be beaten but I was wrong. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant CD with a few exceptional tracks.
Liquid Skin is a solid follow up to Gomez's debut, Bring It On. It is one of the few albums that I get excited about when about to play. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2000

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If you are the indie type, and like bands alike to Kula Shaker (before they split up), and also bands like Blur, and Oasis (before What's the Story - they went c*** after that! Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Different in many ways, but still very much the Gomez we lov
As gomez smashed the market with their first album: BRING IT ON, many people were brainwashed by how good it actually was! Read more
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