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ROBERT GOMEZ - Brand New Towns
| The Independent | It's strange how the virus of musical creativity seems to pass from town to town, infecting artists in one location before shifting randomly to somewhere else. One month, Reykjavik or Athens, Georgia is the searing cauldron of rock'n'roll; the next, it's Portland, Oregon or Omaha, Nebraska.
At the moment, the two undisputed hotbeds of pop power are Sheffield and Toronto, both spawning a seemingly endless string of exciting new acts. And, the way things are going, the small town of Denton in Texas looks set to be the next Sheffield, with a growing roster of talent spearheaded by Lift to Experience, Midlake and, now, the genre-dodging genius of Robert Gomez....full text |
| | Guardian | Denton, Texas may sound like the clompy-booted brother of a glamorous centre of American music, like Memphis, Tennessee, but these days the southwestern town is just as musically fertile.
Midlake were Denton's stars of 2006; in 2007, townsman Robert Gomez hopes to pop over the civil parapet. Brand New Towns, his second album, begins aggressively with the scraping strings and heavy drums of Closer Still, but settles into languor. Gomez's singing style is all sighs and sibilants, as if he has just roused himself from a romantic reverie....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | What is it about Denton? Despite sporting a population smaller than that of the Borough of Reading, the small Texan city already boasts amongst its ranks the criminally-ignored veteran indie-country outfit Centro-Matic, plus Bella Union signings Lift To Experience and Midlake amongst others. Now, they also have the swirling musical artistry of Robert Gomez....full text |
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