Gomez

Listening to "Get Miles," the opener on Gomez's debut album, it's hard to reconcile the
song's gravelly blues licks with the bespectacled, callow youths on the CD jacket. This
English quintet excels in sonic mimicry, particularly where Yankee R&B and roots music are
concerned. The album's first single, "78 Stone Wobble," could pass for a psychedelicized
"Born on the Bayou," and "Free to Run" sounds like Eddie Vedder fronting a blue... More >

Really the roots-rock-they mean it, man ("Whipping Piccadilly," "Love Is Better Than a Warm Trombone").