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Gomez on 'Split The Difference'
Ben Ottewell, Tom Gray and Olly Peacock talk John Kennedy through Gomez album number three - the long awaited, eclectic 'Split The Difference'. Hear it here.
Rife with Gomez's usual cacophanous blend of rock, blues and wide-eyed experimentation, 'Split The Difference' sees the boys gathered together once again after a few years of globe-trotting and package holidays. Get the lowdown on every track, right from the horse's mouth.
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'Do One'
"I believe it's about a holiday Dan went on. Dan, our percussionist, went on a terrible holiday, to say the least, and he wrote this song about it. It's quite funny actually."
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'These 3 Sins'
"It's an almost completely live take, we went for the busking kind of approach. We all setup in the centre of the room, we had a box for a bass drum and we all had the shakers out..."
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'Silence'
"It's basically The Who. If The Who had synths."
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'Me You And Everybody'
"This is like the archetypal Gomez song in a lot of ways; harmonies... Good melody... Stuff. Singalonga Gomez..."
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'We Don't Know Where We're Going'
"It's an instant classic. It's kind of real indie music in a way, like old fashioned..."
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'Sweet Virginia'
"Funnily enough, although it doesn't seem like it, it's the kind of song you can only write if you've got a computer 'cos I had lots of ideas and kept taking them apart and putting them back together again."
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'Catch Me Up'
"It was very much an accident, the charm of the song. It came out of trying to work on this thing of Ian's and not getting anywhere with it and this thing just came out..."
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'Where Ya Going?'
"It's just a big rock song. Just a big kind of funky rock tune. It's a riff and a beat and a big shout. It's dirty. There's a lot of filth in it."
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'Meet Me In The City'
"It's a little bit of an oddball song in the middle of the album really. We didn't have it on one version of the album, but then we decided to put it back."
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'Chicken Out'
"This is unadulterated indie rock. We had real trouble trying to tame down the chorus and make it audible. We just kept putting so many guitars on it. At one point there was like ten electric guitars..."
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'Extra Special Guy'
"it's just a good, simple little tune to jig along to in an old-school way."
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'Nothing Is Wrong'
"It kind of started out as a cynical, sarcastic thing about music and bands and things. But it kind of got turned on its head. It's too good a chorus to be cynical really..."
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'There It Was'
"It's a romantic song. It's completely romantic. It's pure romanticism. End of the night romantic..."
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