Description
The mercurial neo-psychedelia of GUM is the creation of Pond and Tame Impala drummer Jay Watson. The solo project’s full-length debut, Delorean Highway, appeared in 2014. Taking a varied approach over the next several years that was always trippy but sometimes drenched in fuzz, more robotic synth pop, or crunchier rock, GUM went with a synth-enhanced psych-rock for his more cohesive fourth album, 2018’s The Underdog.
The palette-shifting but consistently cosmic Out in the World and Saturnia followed in 2020 and 2023, respectively. A year later, Ill Times was a loss-themed yet still colorful collaboration with Ambrose Kenny-Smith. Jay Watson has been releasing records under his GUM moniker for over a decade, & the recordings have followed his wildest creative impulses. For his 7th studio album, GUM has focussed on 9 songs that explore a specific mood & sound.
Blue Gum Way sets its roots deep into a widescreen, jazz-informed & psychedelia, one influenced by the the likes of Talk Talk & Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool. This LP is the work of an artist who has reached the clearest sense of what he wants to say.
Blue Single LP Pressing in Cardboard Sleeve
Track list:
SIDE A
A1. Man Alive
A2. Phosphene Scream
A3. Expanding Blue
A4. In Life
SIDE B
B1. Man Ray Bay
B2. Celluloid
B3. It Happens Almost Every Day
B4. Outrider
B5. New Equator
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