Gomez - How We Operate
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Free Music Review: Nice effort
Hit: 3 Stars
I like this album and play it often. Nice melodic rock that delivers with a variety of styles, "See the World" and the Greys Anatomy fave "How we operate", are worth the price of admission. Free Music Review: Music Is All Over The Beam
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD was my first exposure to Gomez and I'm glad it was. It is an excellent, diverse Indie recording. The title track, How We Operate, is a powerful tune and is generously complemented by the remaining tracks. Hard to describe the CD in it's entirety. If you're an Indie music lover you won't be disappointed, I pr-o-mise.Free Music Review: Could not get this CD home fast enough....
Hit: 5 Stars
I found out about this group after hearing the song "How we Operate" on the movie "The Hitcher". I ended up buying this CD for my brother and kept listening to it over and over. I decided to buy my own and give him his back. Even though "How to Operate" is my favorite song, there are lots of really good songs and this CD was well worth taking the plunge.Free Music Review: Gomez is worth listening to, especially when Ben is singing.
Hit: 4 Stars
If it were only Ben singing, probably would have gotten 5 stars.
I love half this disc; the other half is mediocre. The half I love are all the songs sung by Ben Ottewal. (There is one song that he doesn't lead on that I like fairly well called Charley Patton Songs.)
Ben Ottewal has a deep, gravelly voice similar to David Gray or Tom Waits. His sound lends a more edgy feel to the tunes he sings, such as Chasing Ghosts with Alcohol, See The World, All too Much, How we Operate, and Tear your Love Apart. These all stand up to repeated listening.
However, numbers such as Girlshaped LoveDrug sound like the Beatles but less inventive and annoying. Reminds me of Robbie Williams, even though I can tolerate some Robbie Williams. Ben Ottewal's voice, on the other hand, is singular and shines. Ben's voice suits the music well; that's my opinion.
Gomez has a compelling sound when Ben Ottewal is singing. Try them out for a listen!
Free Music Review: How we wish they returned to the way they used to operate
Hit: 2 Stars
It seems that Gomez are trying to make themselves more accessible. Big mistake. In ditching their initial quirky, mixed-nuts approach to compiling albums, they are becoming incredibly bland. 'How We Operate' is a scrapbook of inoffensive and completely forgettable doodles, bearing precious little resemblance to any of the collectible nick-nacks on 'Bring It On' and 'Liquid Skin'.
The rot set in on 'In Your Gun', though even then there was evidence of life in the tracks 'Bang Bang' and 'Rex Kramer'. Unfortunately it's been a downward slide since then. I listened to 'How We Operate' three times and haven't played it again; probably never will. It'll join Turin Brakes, the last two Cranberries albums and the other unplayed wonders on the bottom row of the CD tower.