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

Guido Farnell, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Clint Mansell
"Mansell and his eight-piece band deal the hyperactive energy of Pi."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jean Michel Jarre - Electronica 1: The Time Machine
"Legendary producer Jean Michel Jarre gets by with a some help from his friends on his 18th studio album"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Basement Jaxx - Junto Remixed
"One big house party."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Banoffee
"Kalevi deals solos of glittering bubbles of analogue synth sound."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Yppah - Tiny Pause
"This record drifts into spaced-out kaleidoscopes of jazzy abstraction."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: St Germain - St Germain
"Takes us back to the late '90s with a deep house sound that works sedate jazz lounge groove."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
"The moody and pugnacious Grant of yore sounds like he's having fun on this record."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Joan Baez
"A rare audience with an important voice that continues to speak to the generations."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Larry Gus - I Need New Eyes
"Gus confidently works a mind-melting kaleidoscope of diverse global styles."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Mercury Rev - The Light In You
"Their first album in seven years is one into which listeners can easily disappear."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...
"Kurt Vile strips it all back for this album which feels relatively low key in comparison to its predecessor."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
"The languorous swirl of this album moves in slow motion until it completely enshrouds listeners in a heavy cloud of bittersweet melancholia."