TomBlog - A note on record

We've just made a different kind of gomez album: each gomez album is a different kind of gomez album. That is sort of the point of gomez. If we had a manifesto it would read something like: gomez will try really quite a bit more than somewhat to avoid doing the same thing twice. However, there have been many pitfalls in our approach. We've always felt that change is needed to avoid a kind of creative stagnation, but, as a policy, it definitely lends itself to all kinds of critical, artistic or commercial failure. We throw things out and see what sticks. C'est la vie for me.
We've just made a stylish, lyrical record. It's unlike every other gomez record and I'm incredibly proud of that. We left the bells and whistles of sound experimentation at home, and we tried hard to create a more universal kind of sound without losing our uniqueness. I really hope you all love it, indeed I'm very optimistic about that, but if you don't.... well, we'll be around making music forever and you can jump back on board somewhere else in the creative arc. There's a threadbare adage about all the people, all the time. And don't forget, don't just gomez, stay mez. (irony intended)
your friend, tom x