'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Roshan Clerke, Journalist

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Album Review: Ben Browning - Turns
"Ben Browning plays bass in Cut Copy and delivers a debut solo album of surprising quality."
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Album Review: Golden Features - XXIV
"This meticulously focused release maintains the mystique."
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Happiness, Fulfilment And Getting Hugged By Strangers
“My family don’t worry about me, because they know that I’m fine and this is the way that I like to write music."
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Album Review: Girlpool - Before The World Was Big
"The girls write with caustic wit, burning effigies of their past selves."
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Album Review: The Pretty Littles - Gospel
"Constantly riding the borderline been maturity and childishness, Gospel is a sloppy mess in all the right ways."
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Album Review: Way Of The Eagle - Kodo
"Plenty of eclectic and alternative pop showcases his talents well as a producer, but the songwriting itself isn’t always as impressive."
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Album Review: Various - Songs Of Aloha: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Plenty of simple, elegant, traditional Hawaiian songs are scattered throughout the track list."
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Why He Isolated Himself To Write A Collection Of Love Songs
"I decided once again to reinvent myself and relocate to introduce a new challenge into my life — one of isolation."
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Album Review: Oh Mercy - When We Talk About Love
"A distinctly Australian body of acoustic pop music that reaches for the decades rather than the years."
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Album Review: Goldroom - It's Like You Never Went Away
"There are a few old ideas, but ultimately he’s condensed the west coast sunshine into two glistening new songs, and revised two others."
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Album Review: The Outdoor Type - The Outdoor Type
"A bittersweet symphony to the suburbs."
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Album Review: Harts - Breakthrough
"He takes a much more virtuosic approach to the guitar on the remaining three tracks, filling them with Hendrix-style guitar solos."
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